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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 addition to securing and holding the beaches, it would take considerable effort to supply those sold...

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 museum's largest event of the year, attracting bumper crowds, and includes live displays of numerous tanks and armoured vehicles in the museum's main arena. The Churchill III* tank at the museum was the only running example of its kind in existence, until a major clutch failure at one of the ...

  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 has written a fine book about the failed operation called “One Day in August: Ian Fleming,

  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 has written a fine book about the failed operation called “One Day in August: Ian Fleming,