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(June 11, 2021) This week, 80 years ago, Allied forces, commanded by Gen. Sir Noel Beresford-Peirse, reluctantly, and under pressure from London, launched âOperation Battleaxe.â The Allied forces, now designated XIII Corps, included the British 7th Armored Division, commanded by Maj.-Gen. Michael OâMoore Creagh; the 4th Indian Division, commanded by Maj.-Gen. Frank Messervy; and the 22nd Guards Brigade, commanded by Brig.-Gen. Ian D. Erskine. It was a feeble attempt at relieving the siege of Tobruk, which today has a population of 120,000, and is approximately 90 miles west of the Egyptian border, 270 miles east of Benghazi, 260 miles east of Agedabia and 630 miles east of the Libyan capital of Tripoli. ....
The 26ft-long LVT-4 landing craft was uncovered in April by a team of dedicated volunteers in Crowland It was one of 16 brought in to act as a flood defence in the village Crowland, Lincolnshire during 1947 floods However, when water was pumped back into the flood plain, several of the LVT-4s floated away The one dug up in April sank into a hole, whilst a further two of them remain in fishing pits ....
(This article first appeared in November 2020.) During the First World War, Germany’s Kaiser Wilhem II was famously dismissive of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) during the opening stages of the conflict, and he allegedly issued orders to attack and destroy that “contemptible little army.” While it is debatable whether he ever issued such an order, those British troops of the regular army took his threat as a source of pride and dubbed themselves “The Old Contemptibles.” Now some one hundred and six years later the British Army may not be so contemptible, but it could certainly be smaller if not entirely “little.” Cuts proposed by the Ministry of the Treasury could effectively reduce the number of soldiers by 10,000 making it smaller than Germany’s current standing army, which has some 62,000 soldiers in its ranks ....
Advertisement A Second World War amphibious vehicle that was buried 30 feet beneath the Cambridgeshire Fens has been excavated by a team of volunteers. The 26ft-long LVT-4 tank, which was one of 16 brought in to act as a flood defence in the village of Crowland, during the 1947 floods, was uncovered by residents who spent five days digging the lands beneath the Cambridgeshire Fens. The Buffalo military tank, which weighs 20 tons, had been underground for 74 years but appears to be well-preserved because it was buried in a mixture of peat and clay. Daniel Abbott, chairman of Crowland Buffalo LVT, said his team had to carry out a lot of digging by hand as well as using a machine from the North Level Drainage Board in order to uncover the vehicle. ....