15/01/2024
During his stay in the Middle East, Britain's Prime Minister Winston Churchill paid a visit to the Alamein area, meeting brigade and divisional commanders, visiting a gun site, and inspecting person
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06/11/2023
Allied troops land and follow the spider webs of footprints left by first parties near Casablanca, French Morocco, in November of 1942.
03/09/2023
A German soldier lies sprawled against a mortar after a Nebelwerfer attack in Tunis, Tunisia, on May 17, 1943.
06/07/2023
This pattern of anti-aircraft fire provides a protective screen over Algiers at night. The photo, recording several moments of gunfire, shows a defense thrown up during an axis raid upon Algiers in North Africa on April 13, 1943.
26/05/2023
Britain's General Bernard Montgomery, Commander of the Eighth Army, watches battle in Egypt's Western Desert, from the turret of an M3 Grant tank, in 1942.
06/05/2023
Italian gunners man their light field piece in a field of Tunisian cactus, on March 31, 1943.
04/01/2023
A U.S. Navy dive-bomber uses a road as a runway near Safi, French Morocco, on December 11, 1942, but hits a soft shoulder in the takeoff.
25/11/2022
With his hair matted, and a weary but determined look in his face, this American soldier has his hand bandaged by a fellow medical officer, after he was wounded in battle in the early days of the Allied invasion of Normandy, France, in June 1944.
10/11/2022
A U.S. army soldier with a sub-machine gun and another in a jeep guard the looming S. S. Partos which was damaged and had capsized against the dock when the Allies landed at the North African port, in 1942.
14/09/2022
British pilots learned early that it was difficult to destroy V1 "buzz bombs" with their guns. The targets were small and fast, and if shot, would result in a large explosion which was likely to damage the attacker.
This Spitfire pilot is using his aircraft to tip the V1's gyroscope off balance, knocking it off it's target - London.
12/09/2022
America soldiers, equipped with full pack and extra allotments of ammunition, march down an English street to their invasion craft for embarkation on June 6, 1944.
16/05/2022
British Blenheim bombers setting out on a raid in Cyrenaica, Libya, with their escorting fighters, on February 26, 1942.
11/04/2022
British troops, trucks and ambulances stand on deck in readiness as the transport ship nears the coast of France, during the Allied invasion of the Normandy on June 8, 1944.
10/03/2022
American reinforcements arrive on the beaches of Normandy from a Coast Guard landing barge on the French coast on June 23, 1944.
09/12/2021
Boeing B-17F-10-BO "Memphis Belle" nose art.
13/10/2021
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During the Battle of France in 1940, the British Expeditionary Force under the command of General Lord Gort planned to use the channel ports of Dunkirk, Calais, and Boulogne as supply depots, drawing from the experience of the British Army in WW1. Within only a few short days, the German Army Group A smashed through the French Ninth Army, capturing Abbeville on the 20th of May and effectively cutting off the Allied troops in Northern France and Belgium from reinforcements and support. The Battle of Arras began the next day, a failed counter-attack launched by the French and British, though it had an effect on the German High Command and Hi**er, having startled several units and displayed a continued capacity of operations, which the Germans did not expect after their sudden and surprising gains during the initial offensive.
Following this, the German Army attacked to the north, towards the channel ports, instead of south across the Somme River. The apprehension of German High Command regarding another attack like the Battle of Arras led to a halt order being issued by the higher commands on the 21st of May. This halt order granted the British and French armies the desperately needed time in order to withdraw and consolidate their defenses and supplies. The British Army withdrew to the port of Calais, with a mixture of French and British troops forming a rearguard while plans were made to withdraw the BEF and their French allies from the encirclement, with a small force of 4,000, commanded by Brigadier Claude Nicholson, holding a defensive position in the port of Calais.
The Battle of Calais began at midnight on the 22nd of May, fought concurrently with the Battle of Boulogne, when Heinz Guderian’s 10th Panzer Division launched an attack against the defenses of Calais. For the next two days, British and French troops skirmished with German armored units from roadblocks approaching the city, before they began steadily withdrawing to more easily defendable positions within the city. Each attack by the 10th Panzer Division proved to be costly and dangerous, and by the evening of May 23rd, the German commander reported that half of his tanks were knocked out, and one third of his infantry had been casualties.
German attacks on the 24th had been repulsed, though the British and French defenders were forced to retire deeper within the walls of the city. The Germans had delivered an ultimatum to the defenders: If the city was not surrendered before the 25th of May, it would be levelled by the Luftwaffe. At 9 p.m. on the evening of the 24th , Prime Minister Winston Churchill sent the following to the British commander at Calais, Brigadier Claude Nicholson: “Every hour you continue to exist is of the greatest help to the BEF. Government has therefore decided you must continue to fight. Have greatest possible admiration for your splendid stand. Evacuation will not (repeat not) take place, and craft required for above purpose are to return to Dover.”
By 4:00 P.M., the British and French resistance had begun to weaken and fail and the British commanders gave the “every man for himself” order. The next day, the 26th of May, the German Army captured the port of Calais and 16,000 Allied soldiers, ending the Siege which had bought the British enough time to organize the rescue of British and French troops stranded on the beaches of Dunkirk.
16/09/2021
An anonymous American soldier, who died in combat during the Allied invasion, lies on the beach of the Normandy coast, in the early days of June 1944.
14/08/2021
German prisoners captured during an Allied raid on German-Italian position in Sened, Tunisia on February 27, 1943. The hatless soldier stated that he was only twenty years old.
30/06/2021
American troops follow in the tracks of tanks as they march along the beach during Allied Normandy landing operations in France, on June 9, 1944.
05/04/2021
Men and assault vehicles storm the beach as Allied landing crafts reach their destination during the initial Normandy landing operations in France on June 6, 1944.
13/02/2021
Some of the 97 German prisoners captured by the British forces in Egypt in a raid on Tel El Eisa, Egypt, on September 1, 1942.
28/01/2021
Airmen of the Airborne Forces were among the first landings made in France during the Normandy invasions on June 6, 1944.
03/12/2020
A soldier’s helmet tops the wooden cross with an inscription written in French on this grave of an American soldier made by French civilians in France on June 18, 1944.
01/11/2020
A British unit in a U.S. built M3 Stuart Honey tank patrols at speed in Egypt's Western Desert near Mount Himeimat, Egypt, in September of 1942.
18/10/2020
Actress-comedian Martha Raye entertains servicemen of the U.S. Army 12th Air Force on a makeshift stage on the edge of the Sahara Desert in North Africa in 1943.
09/10/2020
A wounded German officer, found in the Egyptian desert during the first two days of a British offensive, is guarded by a sentry while awaiting backup, on November 13, 1942.
27/06/2020
Wildly enthusiastic citizens of Tunis greet the victorious allied troops who occupied the city. A British tankman gets a personal welcome from a Tunis resident in Tunisia, on May 19, 1943.
19/06/2020
General beachhead area in Normandy, France, showing U.S. troops and equipment on the move, on June 11, 1944.
11/06/2020
Buss Mascot with an R.A.F. Squadron stationed in Libya, on February 15, 1942, takes a few personal liberties with the pilot of an American Built Tomahawk plane somewhere in the Western Desert.
02/06/2020
Young Field Marshal Erwin Rommel headed Germany's Army Group B, on the coast hit by the Allied invasion, on June 6, 1944.
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