Warfare in News

Posted on Friday 5th February

Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington, has been granted European Trade Mark ownership of the title; "The Allied Air Forces Memorial" by the European Union.

Read more of their success at http://yorkshireairmuseum.org/latest-news/allied-air-forces-memorial-gains-european-recognition/

Of further interest...

Allied air power lays the foundation for the conquest of Sicily

Wed 7th August

Bryn Evans, author of With The East Surreys in Tunisia, Sicily and Italy 1942-45, looks back to 70 years ago, when Allied air forces took their revolutionary new strategy for air warfare into the invasion of Sicily. Read article...

Untold stories from the Desert Air Force – Eighth Army’s enforcer in the Second World War

Fri 16th May

From his newly released book – The Decisive Campaigns of the Desert Air Force 1942-1945, Bryn Evans shares some edited excerpts below. Read article...

Bomber Harris

Tue 31st May

The Second Front written for Warfare Magazine by Martin Mace. Read article...

Pilots of the Caribbean

Thu 17th April

A description of the RAF Museum London's latest exhibition 'Pilots of the Caribbean' by curator Peter Devitt, delving into the stories of black volunteers across two World Wars. Read article...

Dates in History

Completion of the Burma Railway

17th October 1943

The Burma Railway, also known as the Death Railway, is a 415 kilometres railway between Bangkok, Thailand, and Rangoon, Burma, built by the Empire of Japan during World War II, to support its forces in the Burma Campaign. Forced labour was used in its construction. About 180,000 Asian labourers and 60,000 Allied prisoners of war worked on the railway. On 17 October 1943, the two sections of the line met about 18 km south of the Three Pagodas Pass at Konkuita. Most of the POWs were then transported to Japan.

A young captain in the Royal Norfolk Regiment, Reggie Burton was wounded in the closing stages of the disastrous defence of Malaya and Singapore. He vividly, yet calmly and with great dignity, describes the horror of captivity at the hands of the Japanese. After initial confusion, the true nature of… Read more at Pen & Sword...

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