The word is, Australian filmmaker Anthony Maras is working on a new WW2 movie titled Pressure, which focuses on the go/no-go decision that Gen Eisenhower had to make on the eve of D-Day and the role that meteorologist Group Captain James Stagg played in that famous decision....
In the 55th anniversary year of the much-loved film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, two of the vehicles that starred in the film are due to return to one of the filming locations as part of a commemoration service for Sally Ann Howes, who played Truly Scrumptious. On...
The Last Hill is a new book by Robert Drury and Tom Clavin about a little-known fierce battle fought in December 1944 to capture a strategic hill in the Hürtgen Forest on Germany’s border. The 400 metre (1,315ft) steep-sided ‘Hill 400‘ lies 5 kilometres inside the German...
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