Testing the Funnies
The specialist armoured engineering vehicles of the 79th Brigade under Sir Percy Hobart played a pivotal role in the success of the D Day landings, read more here. This video…
A Pier at La Panne
I have been rather remiss in not writing anything about Dunkirk but with so much great material out there it is hard to produce anything that is interesting. On Twitter…
A User Requirement Document – Piers for Use on Beaches
Before any piece of equipment can be developed or purchased there has to be some form of requirements setting exercise. A masterpiece of of 'getting to the point', this memo…
The North Sea Floods of 1953 – Swords to Ploughshares
61 years ago the UK, Belgium and the Netherlands suffered suffered at the hands of a severe flood (Watersnoodramp) caused by a heavy storm and high tides. Wikipedia has good…
Airfield Pipe Mines – OP CRAB STICK
In order to meet the WWII demand for airfields in the South East of England a massive build programme was started but the chances of these airfields falling into the…
Air Supply in the Burma Campaigns
In the series on logistics I briefly touched on air despatch or aerial delivery in the Burma campaigns of World War II. This paper from the USAF Library goes into some…
The Funnies of D Day
Always a favourite at TD Towers, the Imperial War Museum have a great collection if if images, a short extract of which are below http://www.iwm.org.uk/history/the-funny-tanks-of-d-day
Exercise Tiger Underwater Survey
Exercise Tiger (Operation Tiger) was the code name for a series of pre D Day practice runs at Slapton Sands on the Dorset Coast in 1944 that sadly resulted in…