Remembrance 2023

Annual Remembrance Commemorations at Green Park, London; Brookwood Military Cemetery; RAF Tempsford SOE Base & AFHG Lunch RAF Club – 10th to 12th November 2023. Thanks to:  Sgt-Chef Lauriane Vert, Simon Horsington, Françoise Richardson, Cécile Coolen and Ian Titman for their photographs.   Remembrance of the French, British and Allied airmen at the Bomber Command…

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‘That March, when the fear still was’ – Kateryna Ziborova

Her 3rd Letter from Kyiv, Kateryna reflects upon the beginning whilst missiles still are aimed daily towards Ukraine’s capital.   Almost a year has passed since the full scale war against Ukraine began and stunned a peaceful nation. The world watched and admired the determination, resourcefulness  and courage of its people. But as the months…

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Mondays, a Special Kind of Experience Kateryna Ziborova

In her 2nd ‘Letter from Kyiv’ Kateryna sends some useful advice for when you are under missile attack. (version français ici)   After months of utterly outrageous aggression and atrocities against the people of a democratic European country the tendency to become “war weary” and blazé by each day’s repeated news of attacks and obscenities…

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Les Braves Gars – – Une lettre de Kyiv Kateryna Ziborova

(English/Français) – Dépêches de la ligne de front transmises par une écrivaine et mère de famille, alors qu’elle s’est mise à l’abri et que les missiles russes explosent au-dessus de sa tête.   (For English version click here)   Kateryna Ziborova est écrivaine et auteur professionnel, elle vit à Kyiv avec sa fille de 5…

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Ab Homburg: Dutch SOE Agent & Spitfire Pilot – Anke ter Doest

The remarkable story of a Dutch resistance fighter who escaped to England twice and became a RAF fighter pilot .     In total darkness two young men in a rowing boat paddled frantically in the direction of England, the third passenger sat at the front on the look-out for possible danger. It was a…

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In Love with the Resistance – Rosie Whitehouse

In love with the Resistance: my mother-in-law’s war by Rosie Whitehouse       On a moonlit night in March 1944, three agents floated down on parachutes into the Languedoc highlands east of Castres, in southern France.   One was Pierre Haymann, a Parisian Jew who had been trained in sabotage and partisan warfare in…

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Amoureux de la Résistance – Rosie Whitehouse

Amoureux de la Résistance – La guerre de ma belle-mère.     Marion Müller   Par une nuit de pleine lune en mars 1944, trois agents descendirent en parachute sur les hauts plateaux du Languedoc à l’est de Castres, dans le sud de la France.   (Version in English click here:  https://afheritage.org/in-love-with-the-resistance-by-rosie-whitehouse)   L’un était…

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The Man with the White Handkerchief – Caroline Broch

The personal memories of a survivor of the tragedy at Oradour in June 1944 – a lesson in history.   Although I have spent most of my life in Paris, my family lived in a small town called Saint Junien in the Haute-Vienne region of central France, about 20 mls (32km) from the city of…

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Women of the Royal Navy – Geneviève Moulard

From her latest book, examples of the often overlooked but strategically vital roles played by the “Wrens” in wartime       In extracts from her latest book Geneviève Moulard revisits a little-known area (particularly in France) of the part British women played during the two wars. In these two short extracts from her new…

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Les Femmes de la Royal Navy — Geneviève Moulard

Extraits de son tout dernier livre. Un aspect peu connu (en France) du rôle joué par les femmes britanniques.   (For English translation click here:   https://afheritage.org/women-of-the-royal-navy-genevieve-moulard)     Les Femmes de la Royal Navy – leur combat pour la liberté 1917 – 1945     Dans son dernier ouvrage, Geneviève Moulard revient sur un…

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