Fleet Air Arm pilot from Fermanagh fought with RAF in Battle of Britain – North Antrim Marine five years a … More
Category: ARMY WW2
World War 2 Life stories – i
– Church bell ringer awarded DSM for his part in naval action – WW2 veteran enabled The Ports to do … More
Ubique – Ulster Gunners in WW2 – Part 1
Colonel Jimmy Hughes – Colonel Harry Porter- The wartime service of the 8th (Belfast) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment – Some 8th … More
SAS men from Northern Ireland executed by the Gestapo
Men from Cookstown, Moira and Randalstown who dropped behind lines after Normandy were executed by order of Hitler.
Daddy Steele – the NI General who mobilised the Army for WW2
General Sir James Stuart Steele, Inst and Queen’s OTC, served in both world wars and in 1939 his hand signed … More