Spitfires and Radars in 1944 November 12, 2011
Posted by Beachcombing in : Contemporary
***Idiot time: confirming the comments about anniversaries here, Beachcombing accidentally published two posts on the 11.11.11. This needs to be shunted forward to the 11.12.11. Anyone who is missing a post should look for the Great Crying*** Beachcombing has a terrible record of not respecting anniversaries. But today, in part to subvert all the 11.11.11 [...]
Naval Blunders August 20, 2011
Posted by Beachcombing in : Ancient, Contemporary, Medieval, Modern
Beachcombing has been having a bit of a naval season and it was in celebration of this that he picked up Naval Blunders by Geoffrey Regan. Now, of course, books on blunders in history are commonplace. But this is arguably the best of all those with which Beach is familiar, in part because of the [...]
Taxis in the Mid Atlantic August 19, 2011
Posted by Beachcombing in : Contemporary
Haunting scene from the Battle of the Atlantic
