By Ernest Crofts
The picture shows C battery of the Royal Horse Artillery withdrawing with the enemy in hot pursuit
Flying Bristol Beaufighter T4843 (WR-X)
had an idea - a cylindrical 'bouncing bomb' codenamed Upkeep - a mine designed to skip across the surface of the water clearing the torpedo nets
Many B-17s were named after women
Prepare to Ram, Operation Goodwood, normandy, 18th July 1944 by David Pentland. SIG38 By Ernest CroftsDHM1026. Prepare to Ram, Operation Goodwood, normandy, 18th July 1944 by David Pentland While probing forward near Cagny on the initial day of the Goodwood offensive, Lt John Gorman, a troop commander of 2nd Armoured Battalion, Irish Guards, suddenly found himself confronted by a Tiger II and three Tiger Is of the elite 503rd Heavy Tank Battalion. Supported by only one other Sherman, and aware that their 75mm guns would be ineffective against such