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ww2dbaseAlan Chanter was born in London in 1947. Enlisting in the British Army in 1967, Alan saw service in Germany and Northern Ireland and visited Berlin and Cyprus. Rising to the rank of Staff Sergeant, he was twice introduced to members of the Royal Family and awarded both the General Service Medal with clasp for Northern Ireland and the Long Service and Good Conduct Medal. Retiring from the Army in 1989, Alan took employment in a factory manufacturing components for machine tools until his job became redundant in 2002.

ww2dbaseAlways interested in History (particularly that relating to the Military), in 2001 Alan began writing short items for a number of History-based Internet Newsgroups. Whilst unemployed this developed into some rather lengthier essays.

ww2dbaseA retired widower with three adult children, Alan's interests now include studying the equipment, weapons, aircraft etc. from the Second World war and compiling articles for this website.

Photographs/Maps Contributions

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Timeline Contributions

Alan Chanter has also contributed 3,231 entries in the WW2 Timeline. A small sample of his timeline contributions is shown below.

» 25 Feb 1934: The order for the German army to commence wearing Nazi party badges was published in Militär-Wochenblatt No. 32.

» 24 Dec 1944: Near Liége, Belgium, Brigadier General Frederick Castle, flying as a co-pilot in the US Eighth Air Force's massive operation to frustrate the movement of German troops and supplies in the Ardennes, was killed after ordering the surviving members of his severely damaged aircraft to bale out. His intrepidity and willingness to sacrifice his own life to save others would earn him the Medal of Honor. He was the highest ranking officer in the Eighth Air Force to be so honoured.

» 8 Sep 1944: Alexander Foote, an English spy working for the Soviet Lucy Ring, was released from imprisonment in Switzerland. By then, however, his usefulness to the Soviets was at an end.

» 4 Jul 1941: Wing Commander Hughie Edwards of 105 Squadron RAF won the Victoria Cross for leading a low level attack on Bremen, Germany in which his Blenheim bomber was hit twenty times.

» 2 Aug 1945: On the island of Sado, off Honshu, Japan, 387 allied prisoners working as slave labourers in an ore mine were deliberately entombed and left to suffocate below ground when the Japanese blew up the facility and tried to obliterate any trace of the camp before the Allies inevitably arrive.

» 8 Apr 1922: General Erich von Falkenhayn, the former Chief of the German General Staff between 1914 and 1916, died at Schloss Lindstedt near Potsdam, Germany.

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