Admiralty Christmas Party for Allied Naval Officers' children, 1942. This photograph shows 'Father Christmas' presenting Winston Churchill Junior, the Prime Minister's grandson, with a gift of a book of nursery rhymes at a Christmas party at Admiralty House. G.I. gets a belated Christmas gift, late due to the Battle of the Bulge. Belgium, January 1945. Shown are WACs of the 2nd War Company, Norfolk Air Base, Barracks A, HRPE, seated around a Christmas tree with their mascot dog. A Christmas…

Commander of the Allied Armies in Italy, General the Hon Sir Harold Alexander, leaving Corps HQ at Anzio, 18 February 1944.

On March 7, 2011 it was 66 years ago that the U.S. Panzer Division succeeded in the bridge over the Rhine at Remagen to conquer. The bridge was intact and so could a substantial number of troops and materiel be transferred to the other bank of the Rhine and a bridgehead could be consolidated. The road to Berlin laid open. The defeat of Hitler-Germany had became inevitable. On March 7, 1945 a small vanguard of the 9th American Pantherdivision under command of Lieutenant K.H. Timmermann (of…