Remembering today RAF pilot Trevor Hordley and all those who lost their lives with Bomber Command countering the German V-weapons. Overnight, 80 years ago, Bomber…
Tag: World War Two
Monday 25th March 2024 On the outskirts of Nordhausen there is a small memorial at the side of the road, in an industrial estate. It…
Saturday 23rd March 2024 It is quite some gathering of military vehicles at the Stalag Luft III museum in Żagań, Poland. Tanks and armoured vehicles…
Friday 22nd March 2024 From the hotel it is a short walk to the centre of Dresden, which was almost completely destroyed by the RAF…
Thursday 21st March 2024. If there was anything good to take away from the visit to Buchenwald concentration camp it was seeing the number of…
Wednesday 20th March 2024 – Neheim and the Möhne Dam. Having visited Rheinberg War Cemetery, I headed for Neheim and the Möhne Dam, to further…
Wednesday 20th March 2024 – Rheinberg War Cemetery. When I interviewed Pathfinder pilot Desmond Pelly he told me, ‘My feeling has always been that I…
In 2016 I had the honour to publish ‘You Never Know Your Luck’, the biography of Battle of Britain pilot and Great Escaper Keith ‘Skeets’…
Dave Fellowes flew as a rear gunner with Bomber Command during the Second World War. A great friend and an integral part of the fundraising…
Today marks the 10th anniversary of the unveiling of the Bomber Command memorial by Her Majesty the Queen. On that hot day back in June…