The battle of graveney marsh

15 SEPTEMBER 1940

The Luftwaffe’s feared ‘destroyer’ long-range fighter met with very mixed success

Early on 8 November 1942, Adolf Hitler’s special train was en route from Berlin to Munich when it was stopped at a small station in the Thuringian Forest to receive an urgent message from the Foreign

This unique collection was awarded to an air gunner who took on the Kriegsmarine’s feared capital ships while flying in a Fairey Swordfish torpedo bomber

It was during a drunken conversation in Berlin that the young Harry Patterson first stumbled upon the story which would one day inspire him to write one of the truly great, popular thrillers of the 20

On 11 September 1940, during the late afternoon, between 20 and 30 Messerschmitt Bf 110C/Ds from I. Gruppe of Zerstörergeschwader (ZG) 26 were assigned to fly as part of the fighter cover protecting a