ISSUE No. 132 (Code A132)
AfterTheBattle
Code: A132
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KING HÅKON RETURNS - Jean Paul Pallud tells the story of the
Norwegian King who withdrew to Great Britain on June 7, 1940 following the
German invasion of his country, and takes us through to his return on June 7,
1945 . . . five years to the day of his departure. United States
Patton's Desert Training Center - In March 1942 the US Army established the
Desert Training Center (DTC) to prepare its troops for desert warfare against
the German Afrikorps in North Africa. General George S. Patton was instrumental
in the creation of the DTC and here it is expertly described by Francis Blake,
Dwain Oliver and Lieutenant Colonel John Shaw Lynch.
It Happened Here Villers-Bocage Revisited - In 1999 we published
Villers-Bocage Through the Lens of the German War Photographer, Daniel Taylor's
detailed account of the battle in this Normandy village on June 13, 1944, in
which an armoured column of the British 7th Armoured Division suffered a
shattering defeat against German panzers. In the years since then, Daniel has
not only gained contact with new veterans of the battle and uncovered much
additional information but also found new photographs pertaining to this battle.
Italy Tucker's Panthers - Jeffrey Plowman and Perry Rowe tell how on
April 15, 1945, the 2nd New Zealand Division launched an attack from its
bridgehead across the Sillaro river near Sesto Imolese in northern Italy. In the
course of that attack, Lance-Corporal John Tucker of the 27th Battalion knocked
out two German Panther tanks but was cut down by Spandau fire while attacking a
third - a courageous act that was witnessed with awe by his comrades and earned
him a posthumous Mention in Despatches. Wreck Discovery The Search
for Charybdis and Limbourne - On the night of October 22/23,
1943, a Royal Navy flotilla of one light cruiser and six destroyers chasing a
German blockade-running merchant ship in the Channel under Operation 'Tunnel'
was met by the German merchantman's escorting force of five E-Boats. In the
ensuing encounter two of the British ships - the cruiser Charybdis and the
destroyer Limbourne - were hit by torpedoes. Charybdis sank with the loss of
over 500 of its crew and Limbourne was damaged in such a way that she had to be
scuttled. For 50 years the two ships lay on the seabed unexplored, their exact
location unknown. Then, in 1992 the wreck of Charybdis was found by a team of
French deep-sea explorers by means of a remote-control diving vehicle. Later
French divers explored the ship. However, the whereabouts of the Limbourne
remained unknown. In 2001 a British diving team led by Keith Morris took up the
challenge. After a first expedition to explore and survey the wreck of Charybdis
in June 2001, they returned in June 2002 to search for Limbourne. On June 3 the
team located a wreck which they thought could be the lost destroyer. Two days
later one of the team's divers, Leigh Bishop, our author, discovered a part of
the ship that positively identified the wreck. After 60 years, Limbourne had
been found.
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