The 3rd Parachute Chasseur Regiment, or 3rd RCP, was a French unit of World War II known in the British Army as the 3rd SAS Regiment. Involved in the operations for the liberation of France and Holland, he disappeared at the end of the conflict and reappeared briefly between 1979 and 1998. Creation
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The crew of a He 111 from KG 26 had been ordered on 19 December 1939 to fly towardsthe Orkney Islands in order to report the movements of British naval units and attack them if needed. The captain was Oberleutnant Münter and the pilot, Oberfeldwebel Moldenhauer.Story published during the war in the
One of Hauptmann August Fischers most complicated night hunts, Staffelkapitàn at NJG 100, was when he attacked an antique Soviet Polikarpov Po-2 (U-2) biplane that was ona mission nocturnal intrusion. The modest performance and maneuverability of this diminutive aircraft made it difficult prey for a
The route followed by the bombers on the night of May 31, 1942 passed exactly overhead the radar guidance stations of II./NJG 1(Il groupe de la 1 (Night Fighter Squadron). There were more objectives than the defenders could undertake; that night II./NJG 1 put eight confirmed victories on its kill ch
The most effective attempt to defend against the long-range German patrol boats was also the fruit of improvisation. This was to give the convoys instant air cover in the event of an attack. In April 1941, a number of merchant ships had their decks modified to allow the catapulting of a Sea Hurrican
This chapter recounts the successful hunt led by Oberleutnant Nabrich and Unteroffizier Habicht aboard their Chu. During this night mission, they managed to shoot down a Mosquito (mosquito),prey difficult to reach for Luftwaffe night fighters. Translated from the original story, which appeared in En
The following episode describes the first combat mission of the Heinkel He 219, a night fighter nicknamed Uhu (Grand Duke) in the Luftwaffe. Night fighter ace and group commander inNachtjagdgeschwader 1, Walter Streib flew the first wartime mission on He 219 in June 1943. After taking off from Venlo
Feldwebel (Warrant Officer) Adolf Dilg was a pilot in III./ZG 2 in 1942, and his group was the first in the Luftwaffe to be fully equipped with Fw 190A-4 fighter-bombers. Adolf Dilg recounts here his experiences as a fighter-bomber pilot in France and North Africa.Wounded shortly before the capitula
On February 6, 1945, the two British escort carriers Campania and Nairana left their anchorage at Scapa Flow (Orkneys) with twelve Swordfish and six Wildcat each from 813 and 835 Squadrons respectively. They were to join convoy JW 64 toMurmansk and protect it from Kriegsmarine and Luftwaffe attacks.
In the following account, Lt. H.J. Tonite” during very special night missions.It was the only Squadron of the 8th Air Force to operate at night, in association with the RAF.H.J. Coleman recounts with liveliness and humourpiloting the Flying Fortress and remembers with nostalgiahis nocturnal missions
Luftwaffe fighter pilot Heinz Knoke (opposite) and his squadron are sent to Norway,about forty kilometers from Oslo. This is to protectthe damaged battleship Prince Eugène, which has taken refuge in a fjord.But the RAF wants to finish it and sends a photographic reconnaissance plane.Knoke will inter
This fierce fight continued for two weeks, with both sides strengthening at the same rate so that neither could gain the upper hand. In an attempt to demoralize the million people of Madrid and also to satisfy the curiosity of German officers eager to see the reaction of the civilian population duri
Within hours the Nationalist artillery silenced most of the Republican batteries, but when the troops advanced according to plan, not only did they encounter totally unexpected resistance, but they had to meet a well-executed counterattack.; supported by Soviet tanks and artillery. The progress slow
Franco placed all forces on the Madrid front under the command of General Mola, a former comrade-in-arms alongside whom he had fought in Morocco twenty-four years earlier. Mola set up his headquarters in Avila, 110 kilometers from Madrid. Franco, Varela and Mola had to choose between a militarily co
The army of Africa, now less than 65 kilometers from the Madrid park, the Casa de Campo, was commanded by General Enrique Varela, a soldier with a legendary past. Son of a sergeant major, he joined the army as simple bugler and his bravery had earned him the highest distinctions. He had advanced his
Twenty-four hours later, the Popular Front government resigned. Various other political combinations were sketched out, but no central authority capable of organizing resistance emerged. On the contrary, some left-wing extremist elements tried to respond to the rebellion with revolution. deploying a
As early as 1936, the U.M.E. had made some attempts to create this climate. The commanders of two of the nine divisions of the Spanish regular army, General Miguel Cabanellas, of the 5th Division based in Zaragoza, and General Rafael Villegas, of the 1st Division stationed in Madrid, were implicated
Madrid was the scene of the greatest battle of the Spanish Civil War, a war that weighed on all international political and diplomatic life for three years, drew the attention of the whole world to the extremist policies of fascism and communism, and turned out to be, in many ways, an anticipation o
The flowers wither quickly and, for the volunteers of the brigades, a new tragedy begins.In France, as soon as the border is crossed, foreigners are interned in camps, at Vernet, at Gurs, at Argelès-sur-Mer, etc., under the surveillance of mobile guards and Senegalese. The conditions there are very
Giuseppe Garibaldi, born in Nice[1], July 4, 1807 and died in Caprera (Kingdom of Italy), June 2, 1882, is an Italian politician, nicknamed the Hero of Two Worlds. His parents, originally from the Genoa region, settled in Nice. But, from the age of 7, in 1814, he became a subject of Victor-Emmanuel
Angkor is both a sculpted music, a stone forest, a phantom basilica [...] buried under the tropical forest... For the archaeologist Bernard Groslier, one must imagine Versailles, Concorde, the Louvre, the Place des Vosges and all the most beautiful cathedrals…” In fact, one cannot understand the Khm
Egyptian Mythology occupied a central place in the history of ancient Egypt, the Egyptian gods exerting a strong influence on society and daily life in the land of the pharaohs. Very sophisticated, the Egyptian pantheon is one of the mythologies including the most deities. For over 3,000 years, the
The War for the Zarumila Territory was the conclusion of a 111-year dispute between Peru and Ecuador over the possession of a zone of jungle... in the area of the Amazon tributary Zarumila. Peru had regrouped its armed forces in the 1930s, even acquiring 24 Czechoslovak LTP-38 tanks , Italian C