Anne Frank Museum Amsterdam About the MKGS Home - Red Tail Squadron Red Tail Squadron FoHESC News: The Hanson Environmental Study Centre The Hanson Environmental Study Centre Located at Great Linford on the northern edge of Milton Keynes the site was formerly a gravel pit providing materials for the construction of the M1 and latterly Milton Keynes itself. In 1971 a major project began to restore the site as an area for wildlife and conservation. The Centre is now managed by M.K Council as a field study centre and nature reserve, providing an education facility for local schools. In addition the site is visited by various charitable organizations and study groups and is open to members of the public via a membership scheme. The site consists of a large lake bordered on one side by woodland and small meadows, interlaced with a series of smaller lakes and ponds. What can I expect to see? Spring migrants include the Cuckoo and many common warblers. Little Grebe Summer visitors include the Hobby, (a small falcon) which can be seen hunting around the lakes. Bankvole Buzzard circling over the far meadow at HESC.
The Little-Known Story of the Night Witches, an All-Female Force in WWII In the Nazi-occupied Soviet Union, German soldiers had a very real fear of witches. Namely, the “Night Witches,” an all-female squadron of bomber pilots who ran thousands of daring bombing raids with little more than wooden planes and the cover of night—and should be as celebrated as their male counterparts. This month marks the 73rd anniversary of the start of their pioneering service. From the start of the war, Colonel Marina Raskova, a Soviet pilot who was known as the “Russian Amelia Earhart,” began receiving letters from women across Russia wanting to join the war effort in any way they could. In October of 1941 the order came down from Joseph Stalin that Raskova was to establish a trio of all-female air squads. The regiment began filling out in 1942, with young women ranging in age from 17 to 26 transferring to the small town of Engels to begin flight training. The women faced significant obstacles even before they began engaging in combat—namely, with the equipment.
Home - Parks Trust Athens 1944: Britain’s dirty secret This article is the subject of a column by the readers’ editor. “I can still see it very clearly, I have not forgotten,” says Títos Patríkios. “The Athens police firing on the crowd from the roof of the parliament in Syntagma Square. And then came the defining moment: the recklessness of youth, the passion of belief in a justice burning bright: “I jumped up on the fountain in the middle of the square, the one that is still there, and I began to shout: “Comrades, don’t disperse! “I was,” he says now, “profoundly sure, that we would win.” Even now, at 86, when Patríkios “laughs at and with myself that I have reached such an age”, the poet can remember, scene-for-scene, shot for shot, what happened in the central square of Greek political life on the morning of 3 December 1944. The crowd carried Greek, American, British and Soviet flags, and chanted: “Viva Churchill, Viva Roosevelt, Viva Stalin’” in endorsement of the wartime alliance. There is no overstating the horror of occupation.
MKCDC at Bradwell Abbey Potsdam Revisited Documentary Film featuring Stuart Canin National Energy Centre - National Energy Foundation The National Energy Centre The centre is a two-acre (0.81-hectare) site consisting of two buildings (Phase 1 and Phase 2). It's adjacent to the main London-Birmingham railway line and the A5 trunk road. The National Energy Centre: Phase 1 - June 1990 The National Energy Foundation was origianlly in this building but it now houses National Energy Services Ltd, SAVA and the NHER. The National Energy Centre: Phase 2 - February 2004 This building is the offices of the National Energy Foundation.
How India Bailed Out The West In World War II - Swarajya Seventy years ago, this month, Germany surrendered to the Allies to end World War II in Europe. It is time India’s game-changing contribution to the victory is acknowledged in the actual context of Britain’s limitations. Also, what India got in return. One of the little known facts about World War II is that it was India’s contribution of men and material that bailed out the West. Over 2.6 million Indian troops played a decisive role in the greatest conflict of the 20th century and helped Britain stay in the fight. Equally critical was Indian material help. Britain’s dependence on India was near total. Field Marshal Claude Auchinleck, Commander-in-Chief of the British Indian Army from 1942, asserted that the British “Couldn’t have come through both wars if they hadn’t had the Indian Army”. To be sure, eight out of 10 German soldiers who died in battle, died on the Russian front and it was Russian military might that steamrolled the once invincible German Army. Fear Stalked The British
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