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Battle Treasures is HERE!

Battle Treasures is HERE! When Amazing War Stories Ambassador Jason Fox and the legend himself Bruce Crompton come together, you just know military history magic is about to happen. These two don’t just talk about history – they live it. And in their brand-new TV series Battle Treasures, airing on Sky HISTORY from Tuesday 28 October at 8.30pm, they set out to uncover some of…

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The Daredevils of D-Day Part 2

In the late hours of hours of June 5th, 1944 six Horse gliders, towed by Halifax bombers made their way across the channel. Inside the lead glider, codenamed Chalk 91, sat 30 men readying themselves for one of the most daring missions of D-Day. Little did the men realise that the next 24 hours would…

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WW2 French Bank Notes & Operation Biting Planning Boards

In the dead of night on February 27, 1942, a group of daring British soldiers from the newly formed Parachute Regiment, led by Major John Frost, landed behind enemy lines into German-occupied France. Their mission was to raid a German radar installation in the small coastal village of Bruneval, near the port of Le Havre….

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