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In World War I they were bedridden and died. Now, even with shattered spinal cords, they walk again

The Mulberry Harbors were truly a BYOH affair. Key point: These artificial harbors could be combined to allow the invasion fleet to land heavy equipment and more troops. It was an ingenious idea and some of the the concrete harbor pieces can still be found today. Long before the first soldiers set foot on the beaches of Normandy on the morning of June 6, 1944 military planners knew that getting those troops to Normandy and establishing a beachhead was quite literally just half the battle. In ...

AN appeal has been launched so an historic British Second World War tank can be returned to running order. The Tank Museum wants to raise £5,000 so the Churchill III* tank, which it has on long-term loan from The Churchill Trust, can run again in time for Tankfest 2021. Tankfest is the Bovington museums largest event of the year, attracting bumper crowds, and includes live displays of numerous tanks and armoured vehicles in the museums main arena. The Churchill III* tank at the museum ...

  Some years ago, I came across an account of the disastrous World War II raid on Dieppe written by a British naval intelligence officer who viewed the raid from the deck of a warship off the coast of France.  The intelligence report read like a thriller, which should come as no surprise, as the naval intelligence officer was Royal Navy Lt. Commander Ian Fleming, who went on to write the James Bond thrillers.  The Dieppe Raid was the stuff of thrillers, and Canadian historian David O’Keefe...

  Some years ago, I came across an account of the disastrous World War II raid on Dieppe written by a British naval intelligence officer who viewed the raid from the deck of a warship off the coast of France.  The intelligence report read like a thriller, which should come as no surprise, as the naval intelligence officer was Royal Navy Lt. Commander Ian Fleming, who went on to write the James Bond thrillers.  The Dieppe Raid was the stuff of thrillers, and Canadian historian David O’Keefe...

I reached out to David O’Keefe and I asked him why the Dieppe Raid was controversial, tragic and something of a mystery. “In less than 9 hours on August 19th, 1942, over 1,000 Allied soldiers, sailors and airmen died in a raid on the German-held port of Dieppe, France in the English Channel,” Mr. O’Keefe said. “The vast majority of these deaths, 907, were taken by the Canadians, but the British and the Americans (fighting their first actions against Hitler in Europe) also paid a heavy...