The Second World War

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Part One - Western Europe (Scroll down for Eastern Europe and Far East)

The Obersalzberg (1935-45)

Nuremberg: The Dark Heart of Nazi Germany

Nuremberg: Cradle of Nazism - Flickr Portfolio

Berchtesgaden: Alpine Redoubt - Flickr Portfolio

Return to The Bulge (1944)

The Battle of the Bulge (1944) - Flickr Portfolio

The Battle of the Hürtgen Forest (1944)

Hurtgen Forest - Flickr Portfolio

Arnhem 80 - Flickr Portfolio

The Battle of Arnhem 80th Anniversary

Fairy Tales, Royalty & Bouncing Bombs (1943)

Sergeant Oddball's Tank (1970)

The 82nd Airborne on Cotentin Peninsula (1944)

The First Arnhem Casualties (1944)

The Black Down Decoy Site (1940-44)

The Lundy Island Heinkels (1941)

The Smoke Lane HAA Battery, Bristol (1940-1945)

Smoke Lane HAA Battery - Flickr Collection

Starfish Sites near Clevedon (1940-1944)

The Pawlett Barrage Balloon Hanger (1940-1945)

The Battle of Anzio (Jan - June 1944)
The Salerno Landings (September 1943)
A Portsmouth Schoolboy's Memories of D-Day
The Cavendish Road at Monte Cassino
The Cavendish Road, Monte Cassino - Flickr Collection
Colditz Castle (1939 - 1945)
Glen Miller in Cirencester - Flickr Collection
Colditz Castle - Flickr Collection
Flying Officer Smith-Gander - Photo Album
Tiger at Vimoutiers
The First Shots of WWII
Duxford Spitfires - Flick Collection
The Clevedon Blitz - Night of the 4th & 5th Jan 1941
Operation Husky, Sicily (1943)
Operation Husky (1943) - Flickr Collection
Brean Down Fort (1860 - 1945)
The Sherman at Slapton Sands, Devon
Operation Husky, Malta in 1943
V Weapons on the Cotentin Peninsula
V1 Launch Base at La Sorellerie, Cherbourg, France - Flickr Collection
Bristol Air Defence (1940 to 1944)
The Narva Bridgehead [1944]
The German Occupation of Jersey (1940 to 1945)
The Normandy-Niemen Squadron
Mosquito Wreckage
T6 Texan and Folke Wulf FW190 (Florida)
Operation Market Garden - Arnhem
Arnhem - Flickr Collection
The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich - Prague
The Battle for Monte Cassino
The Battle of Monte Cassino - Flickr Collection
Normandy (July 2002)
The Bridge at Remagen - Flickr Collection
The Bridge at Remagen
The Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge - Flickr Collection
Operation Mercury (1941)
Operation Mercury (1941) - Flickr Collection
Bristol Blitz (Sheepway HAA Battery) - Flickr Collection
Bristol Blitz (Purdown HAA Battery) - Flickr Collection
Bristol Blitz (Lodge Farm HAA Battery) - Flickr Collection
Bristol Blitz (Easton in Gordano HAA Battery) - Flickr Collection
Bristol Blitz (Brean Down - Air & Naval Defences) - Flickr Collection
Bristol Blitz (Rockingham Farm HAA Battery) - Flickr Collection
Bristol Blitz (Greenbank Cemetery) - Flickr Collection
Malta - Flickr Collection
Normandy (2010) - Flickr Collection
Normandy (2013) - Flickr Collection
Jersey - Flickr Collection
Alf Curme in Germany (1945) - Flickr Collection
Joan Curme (V1 Sites 1948) - Flickr Collection
RAF Woodhall Spa - Flickr Collection

Nordhausen (Mittelbau-Dora) 1943-45

Clevedon's Pathfinder (1943)

Part Two - Eastern Europe (Scroll up for Western Europe and down Far East)

Totleben Fort, Kronstadt, Russia (1910-1950)
The Battle of Stalingrad (1942 - 43) - Final Part - Pitomnik Airfield
The Battle of Stalingrad (1942 - 43) - Part Four
The Battle of Stalingrad (1942 - 43) - Part Three
The Battle of Stalingrad (1942 - 43) - Part Two
The Battle of Stalingrad (1942 - 43) - Part One
The Fight for Vyborg (1944)
Vyborg: Flickr Collection
The Continuation War (1941- 44): Finland's Dilemma
Mikkeli: Flickr Collection
Owl Mountain / Gora Filina, Republic of Karelia, Russia (Finnish Military Complex 1943/1944)
Owl Mountain - Flickr Collection
The Battles for Kiviniemi / Losevo (1939 - 44)
The Battles for Kiviniemi / Losevo (1939 - 44) - Flickr Collection
The Anatomy of a Soviet Bunker (1941- 44)
The Lemetti Pocket / Motti (Jan-March 1940)
The Lemetti Pocket - Flickr Collection
The Fight for Sortavala and The Northern Shore of Lake Lagoda - Finnish / Russian Continuation War (1941-44)
The Fight For Sortavala (1941-44) - Flickr Collection
The Transit Camp at Hanko, Finland (1942-1944)
Hanko (1942-44) - Flickr Collection
Bolkhov & Krivtsovo - Flick Collection
The Fight for Bolkhov (July 1943)
Victory Day in Bolchov and Orel (2016) - Flickr
Victory Day in Bolchov and Orel (2016)
Objective Ponyri - Battle of Kursk (1943)
Ponyri - Flickr Collection
Kubinka Tank Museum - Flickr Collection
Svoboda - Rokossovsky's Headquarters (1943) - Flickr
City of Kursk - Flickr Collection
General Konstantin Rokossovsky at Kursk (1943)
Detachment Kempf at Kursk (July 1943)
Prokhorovka - Flickr Collection
Belgorod - Flickr Collection
The Tank Battle at Prokhorovka (12th July, 1943)
The Psel Bridgehead, Kursk (July 1943)
Krivtsovo - Russia's 'Death Valley' (1942 - 43)
The Peenemunde Rocket Centre (1936 - 1945)
The Bunkers of Zossen (1936 - 1994)
Joe Stilwell's House in China - Flickr Collection
Zossen - Flickr Collection
Dresden - Flickr Collection
Prora - Nazi Holiday Camp - Flickr Collection
Berlin - Flickr Collection
Peenemunde - Flickr Collection
George Gundlach - 291st Infantry Division - Army Group North - Flickr Collection
9th Luftwaffen Feld Division - Photo Album
The July bomb Plot (1944)

The Strange Story of Monty, the Bekesha and the Papakha (1947)

Kaliningrad Oblast Road Trip - Part 2

Kaliningrad Oblast Road Trip - Part 1

The Battle of Konigsberg (1945)

The Evacuation from Pillau (1945)

The Heiligenbeil Pocket (1945)

The Wolfsschanze - Flickr Collection

Army Group North - Supply Lines (1941 - 44)

The Demjansk Pocket (1942)

The Volkhov Front - Novgorod Sector (1941 to 1944)

The Cholm Siege (1942)

Demyansk & Cholm (1942)
Demyansk & Cholm (Maps) - Flickr Collection

The Narva Bridgehead [1944]

The Normandy-Niemen Squadron

The Normandie - Niemen Squadron [Flickr Collection]

Auschwitz

The Kholm Pocket - [Flickr Collection]

The Demjansk Pocket - [Flickr Collection]

The Volkhov Front - [Flickr Collection]

Staraya Russa - The North West Front - [Flickr Collection]

Stalingrad - Flickr Collection

Sevastopol - The sieges of 1942 and 1944

The Narva Bridgehead - Flickr Collection

Leningrad - Header

Leningrad - The Corridor of Hope [The North East]

Leningrad - Siniavino and the South East

Leningrad - The Finnish Front [The North]

Leningrad - The German Fortified Areas in the South

Leningrad - The Oranienbaum Pocket

Leningrad - The City

Leningrad - Flickr Collection

Leningrad - The West - [Flickr Collection]

The Seelow Heights

Part Three - Far East (Scroll up for Western & Eastern Europe)

The Battle of Imphal (March to July 1944)

The Siege of Kohima (April 1944)

The Battle of Sangshak (March, 1944)