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Featured battle : Magdeburg
Part of The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
Date : 05 May 1809
The tiny Prussian force was commanded by Major von Schill. He had refused to accept French domination of Prussia and led a Friekorps of around 1,000 men. This action against a much larger French force captured three ammunition waggons.
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McDonnell F-4C Phantom II 63-7699
One of the most successful fighter aircraft of the latter 20th Century, the F4 saw service with many airforces across the world including the RAF and the Royal Navy as well as many other European, Middle Eastern and Far Eastern Airforces. It saw action in Vietnam, the Arab-Israeli wars and the 1991 Gulf War. This particular aircraft flew in the Vietnam war and has a red "kill" star on it's port air intake, signifying a Mig-17 it shot down on 14th May 1967 while serving with the 356th Tac. Fighter Sqn. The F4 could reach Mach 2.23 (1,472 mph) and a ceiling of 60,000ft carrying a wide variety of armament from up to 18,000lbs of bombs to 4 of pretty much any air to air or anti radar missile of the period 1960 -1980.
Gallery updated : 2022-04-04 08:33:43
Featured review :
Eyewitness at Dieppe
Ross Reyburn
Wallace Reyburn was a truly exceptional war correspondent the only one who went ashore during the ill-fated Dieppe raid 1942. He wrote of his experiences in ‘Rehearsal for Invasion’ a war time best seller. This book, written by his son Ross, has three parts. Part one, A Fortunate Survivor, Ross introduces his father to the reader and places the Dieppe raid in its context. Part two, Rehearsal for Invasion, is Wallace Reyburn’s account of his involvement in the landing. He doesn’t shy away from the brutality of close-quarter combat and records the bravery of the Canadian troops fighting against better armed more numerous Germans. Part three, The Appendices, give a flavour of the times and how the book was received.
The adventure is ‘Boys Own’ stuff, beautifully written, absorbing yet gritty in parts. The whole rings true and we highly recommend it as a very good read.
Pen & Sword History, 2022
Reviewed : 2022-12-01 20:33:51
