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Review – Above Us The Stars by Jane Gilliford Lowes
Above Us, the Stars. A history of a No. 10 Squadron Bomber Command Wireless Operator – Review
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D-Day – The Naval and Air Involvement
When we think of D-Day, it is of the men who landed on the beaches or parachuted into Normandy. D-Day was a combined arms operation, with the involvement of both the naval and air branches. This included the Royal Navy, and Royal Air Force, with their Commonwealth and Imperial elements, as well as the United…
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A Need to Remember
At Remembrance we all tend to go to remember those who went before in conflict and in military service, who were killed and those who came home shattered in mind, body and spirit. How we remember these losses is a phenomenon that originated in the Boer War, as communities had settled, news was more accessible,…
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe
HG Wells
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