After The Battle #068 – Blitzkreig In The West

Jean Paul Pallud introduces the German campaign in May and June 1940 as a prelude to the publication of his book, Blitzkrieg in the West Then & Now. Wreck Recovery – Wreck Recovery Wartime Style – An unusual recovery of Whitley T4321 from the uninhabited Island of Rona off the north coast of Scotland in May 1941 told by Colin A. Pomeroy. Preservation – The Merville Battery – 45 years later – Lieutenant – Colonel M – J. P. Chilcott describes the establishment of the War Museum in No. 1 Casemate of the battery which enfiladed the western flank of the Allied landings on D-Day. It Happened Here – The Night the Rhine Caught Fire – The crash of a Halifax from No. 408 (Canadian) Squadron in Holland in June 1943 by Joop van Vliet. A Veteran Returns – Return to Morotai – George Battley visits the Indonesian Island where he was stationed in 1945. United Kingdom – Royal Air Force Bomb Disposal – The role of the RAF in World War 2 and beyond. Readers’ Investigations – El Alamein ’89 – David Green visits the War Museum at El Alamein

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