Tag: war
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Far from home: where the Victoria Cross was won
Every Victoria Cross has two places: where the recipient was born and where the deed was done. I mapped both for 1,357 awards and measured the distance between them.
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Thankful Villages: luck or size?
About 55 parishes in England and Wales got every serviceman back from the First World War. Small parishes are nine times likelier to be on the list, but chance alone predicts hundreds more.
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Bit-zkrieg: Iron Front ’44, a free WW2 tactics game from Shanghai to Berlin
My new browser game is a turn-based tactics game of the Second World War: 66 historical battles with the real generals, tanks, ships and aircraft, a soundtrack of period recordings, and a zombie mode. Free to play now, with a trailer.
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WW1 Trucks and Logistics and Trucker Heroism
There is great heroism in non front line tasks: take this story upon Mr Reginald Horace Northcote from WW2. Via- https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/90/a3228590.shtml My Father was in Italy during the war as a driver with the North Devon Yeomanry and was attached to the British Fourth Division. He saw the bombing of Monte Cassino and entered Rome as…
