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“We must now return to Virginia.”
After Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg, General Lee rode out to the edge of the battlefield and watched his shattered forces returning. “It’s my fault” he was reported to say, “It is I who have lost this fight, it’s all my fault.” To General Pickett he said, “You must look after your division.” And Pickett replied, “General Lee, I have no…
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RAF in Malaya – The Enemy and Allied Forces I
The Royal Air Force (RAF) and Army Air Corps, based in Malaya, provided multi-role air support to emergency operations. This was either as an independent force of the operation, or in direct cooperation with forces on the ground. There were six facets to the availability of air support: 1.Photographic air…
RAF in Malaya – The Enemy and Allied Forces II
Operation ‘Firedog’ – the air war against the CTS (Communist Terrorists) during the Malayan Emergency – began in earnest in July 1948 with the formation of an RAF Task Force at Kuala Lumpur. Reinforcements, notably Lincolns from the UK were sent to Malaya and Singapore on detachment. The first to…
Suez Crisis
An Egyptian boy stands near a British tank amid the rubble of destroyed buildings in Port Said after the British and French assault on the city during the Suez Crisis, November 1956. Start Date: July 26, 1956 End Date: March 6, 1957 Over the months that followed Egyptian…
From ‘Neptune’ to ‘Market’ I
In the summer of 1944 the sun shone over Southern England and success greeted the allied armies in France and Belgium. At airfields in south-west England and in Lincolnshire increased activity aroused suspicions but no one really knew what was in the wind. In August WAAF Corporal Ruth Mary Parker…
From ‘Neptune’ to ‘Market’ II
The task of the 82nd was to take and hold bridge over the Maas outside the village of Grave five miles southwest of Nijmegen, at least one four bridges over the Maas-Waal Canal between Grave and Nijmegen and the bridge over the Waal at Nijmegen itself. Success in holding the…
Bay of Pigs (April 17, 1961)
One of the 5 tanks M41 of the 2506 Brigade that landed in Bay of Pigs, are exhibited today in the Girón Beach Museum. In the spring of 1960, President Dwight Eisenhower approved a covert operation to send small groups of American-trained Cuban exiles to work in the Cuban underground…