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Featured battle : Imjin
Part of Korean War
Date : 22 April 1951 - 25 April 1951
The Chinese 23rd Army attacked the British Brigade which was holding the crossing of the Imjin river. Massively outnumbered the 'glorious Gloucester's' held an ever shrinking perimeter for three days. On the morning of the fourth day the order came to break out independently. Of the whole battalion only 39 men managed to reach safety. Their desperate defence enabled the UN troops to establish a new defensive line between the Chinese advance and Seoul.
Featured image :
Hawker Hunter E-419
First introduced in the early 1950's and still serving with various airforces around the world right into the 1990's, the Hunter has been described as Britain's most successful post-war military aircraft. It was also the last in a line of classic fighters build by the Hawker aircraft factory. This example is a Mk 51 (similar to the British Mk 4) built for the Danish Air Firce in the 1950's and given to the museum on it's retirement in the 1970's. Powered by a Rolls Royce Avon Turbojet up to Mach 0.94 it was armed with 4 x 30mm Aden cannons in the nose beneath the cockpit and could carry up to 2,000lbs of under-wing stores including 1,000lb and 500lb bombs, 24 x 3 inch rockets or extra fuel in drop tanks (useful since the internal fuel capacity of the Hunter was very low).
Gallery updated : 2022-04-04 08:33:43
Featured review :
The Harwich Striking Force
Steve R Dunn
Having enjoyed three previous books by Steve Dunn I had high expectations of this one and I was not disappointed. The Harwich force was a special creation to meet a particular need and worked under a talented leader. It’s actions, successes, failures highs and lows are all here and indicate a massive amount of research. The breadth of its actions many of them experimental is down to the vision of its commander, Admiral Tyrwhitt. He thought deeply about the weapons, cruisers, destroyers, mine sweepers, mine layers, submarines and flying boats, and used them in novel aggressive ways. The accounts of various voyages show how the weather, especially fog, was as much of an enemy as were the Germans.
The easy flowing text includes a lot of personal accounts and observations, there are many photographs of the men and the vessels and one very good map. This is a well-focussed work and a jolly good read which we highly recommend.
Seaforth Publishing, 2022
Reviewed : 2022-10-09 10:28:07
