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

Nazi Party is founded

24th February 1920

The National Socialist German Workers' Party, commonly known in English as the Nazi Party (from the German Nazi, abbreviated from the pronunciation of Nationalsozialist), was a political party in Germany between 1919 and 1945. It was known as the German Workers' Party (DAP) prior to a change of name in 1920. The party's last leader, Adolf Hitler, was appointed Chancellor of Germany by president Paul von Hindenburg in 1933. Hitler rapidly established a totalitarian regime known as the Third Reich.

On 30 January 1933, the president of Germany appointed Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of the Weimar Republic. Hitler's National Socialist Party had won a majority in the general elections the year before, and Hitler's accession to power began under the guise of legitimacy. This text examines how the rise of… Read more at Pen & Sword...

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