Incredible d-day inventions

In the event of a Nazi invasion, Britain would have deployed a network of deadly defences to impede the enemy at every turn

A boat that takes the ground provides greater freedom and opens up more safe havens

AN EXAMPLE OF DEEP LAYERED, CO-ORDINATED DEFENCE IN PLACE DURING THE SUMMER OF 1940

I’D seen an advertisement in my father’s newspaper for women to work on the canal boats. It said applicants should be of a robust constitution. I’m quite robust, so why not? I’d give it a go. “Look, D

On a muggy night in late August 1940, Hinnerk Waller’s fraying tether had finally snapped. Relentlessly deployed in the Battle of Britain as part of the Luftwaffe fighter wing JG 52, Waller was paying

HOW THE LUFTWAFFE PREPARED FOR THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN