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

Operation Bluecoat

30th July 1944

Operation Bluecoat was an attack by the British Second Army at the Battle of Normandy during World War II, from 30 July 1944 to 7 August 1944. The geographical objectives of the attack were to secure the key road junction of Vire and the high ground of Mont Pinçon. Strategically, the attack was made to support the American exploitation of their breakout on the western flank of the Normandy beachhead.

After seven weeks of bitter fighting there was a desperate need to break out of the Normandy bridgehead. In late July 1944 Lieutenant-General Sir Miles Dempsey's Second Army moved two entire corps from the Caen sector to the relatively quiet countryside around Caumont. Here, the British XXX Corps prepared to… Read more at Pen & Sword...

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