HMS Frobisher and HMS Roberts at Normandy by Ivan Berryman (GL) OPN40DHM1323GL. HMS Frobisher and HMS Roberts at Normandy by Ivan Berryman. The cruiser HMS Frobisher dominates this scene off Houlgate at the Normandy landings of 1944. The monitor HMS Roberts lies beyond Frobisher with a Large Infantry Landing Ship or LSI (L) unshipping its LCAs on the extreme right of the picture. In the foreground, a motor launch attends a group of LCP (L)s as they head for the French beaches. Two Spitfire Mk. IXs conduct sweeps
Gibson VC by Graeme Lothian
its sister aircraft S1596 broke the world air speed record at 379 mph
He claimed a probable Bf109 on 6th June
87 Stukas and forty JU
one of two Stirlings lost on this operation
Decorated for conspicuous bravery and devotion to the wounded at Rorkes drift
Last stand of the 24th South Wales Borderers at Isandhlwana during the Zulu War
Avery and his vessel the Fancy being a ship of 46 guns and 150 men set sail in 1695 bound for Madagascar
Pilot Officer Athur Bugden (Flight Engineer)
Nelsons flagship
a single Messerschmitt Bf 109 piloted by Franz Stigler approached the crippled bomber and
and it descended to sea level