Warfare in Pictures Gallery

SS Graffiti carved into the outside walls of Chateau du Fou discovered by BHTV whilst filming the Operation Bulbasket DVD. Chateau du Fou was used as a replacement barracks, by 17 SS Pz Gren Div, after the bombing of Bonneuil- Matours on the 14/15 July 1944. Chateau du Fou was itself bombed on 2 Aug
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Second Battle of El Alamein

23rd October 1942

At El Alamein in northern Egypt, the British Eighth Army under Field Marshal Montgomery begin a critical offensive to expel the Axis armies from Egypt, never to return.

In July 1942, German and Italian forces seemed to be at the point of sweeping away the remainder of British resistance in the Middle East and triumphantly overrunning Egypt. If this had happened, the disaster for the Allies would have been irretrievable. Instead, Rommel's victorious army was checked on the… Read more at Pen & Sword...

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