Doug Canning breaks radio silence to call the sighting of Admiral Yamamotos flight over the pacific island of Bourganville
requisitioned as a troop carrier at the outbreak of the conflict
he is also notably the first Soviet pilot to claim an Me262 jet
Below the pockmarked landscape and beachhead is packed with detail and activity: No fewer than fifty vehicles of all description can be counted
Polish pilots were prominent amongst these
Panzercorps Guderian by David Pentland. CAM5 Doug Canning breaks radio silenceDHM6504. Panzercorps Guderian by David Pentland. Sedan, Northern France, 16th May 1940. At the start of the invasion of France, seven Panzer divisions in three Corps were sent through the Ardennes forest, to cross the Meuse. Leading the southernmost column was General Heinz Guderian's XIX Panzercorps, comprising the 1st, 2nd and 10th Panzer divisons. Within three days they had reached and crossed the Meuse at Sedan, expanded their bridgehead and after