FIELD NOTES / GALLUS ARCHIVE
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Every article belongs to a wider campaign space. Use the campaign links above for a guided reading order, or browse the archive below by publication date.
SECOND WORLD WAR
The complete Great Escape field guide: Roger Bushell and Big X, the 600-person escape organisation, Tom Dick and Harry, tunnel engineering, the night of 24–25 March 1944, 76 escapers, the three who...
FIRST WORLD WAR
Biography of Vice-Admiral Franz Hipper, commander of Germany's battlecruiser scouting force at Jutland, covering the run south, the reversal toward the Grand Fleet and the reconnaissance role of his fast force.
SECOND WORLD WAR
Biography of Colonel Friedrich Wilhelm von Lindeiner-Wildau, the Luftwaffe officer who commanded Stalag Luft III during its major escape operations.
FIRST WORLD WAR
Biography of Admiral Reinhard Scheer, commander of the German High Seas Fleet at Jutland: the strategy of isolating part of the Grand Fleet, British signals intelligence, the battle, withdrawal and the turn...
SECOND WORLD WAR
Biography of Squadron Leader Roger Bushell, the RAF fighter pilot and prisoner of war who led the Stalag Luft III escape organisation known as Big X.
SECOND WORLD WAR
A complete field guide to Stalag Luft III at Sagan/Żagań: POW life, Luftwaffe camp command, prisoner organisation, Roger Bushell and Big X, tunnelling and countermeasures, intelligence work, the Wooden Horse escape, the...
FIRST WORLD WAR
Biography of Vice-Admiral Sir David Beatty, commander of the Battlecruiser Fleet at Jutland: the fast-force role, battlecruiser losses, the runs south and north, signalling and his later command of the Grand Fleet.
FIRST WORLD WAR
Biography of Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, commander of the Grand Fleet at Jutland, focusing on fleet command, deployment, torpedo risk, the strategic meaning of sea control and his later role as First...
FIRST WORLD WAR
A complete Royal Navy First World War field guide: the Anglo-German naval race, Grand Fleet, blockade, Coronel and the Falklands, Dardanelles, full Jutland command structure and chronology, U-boats, convoy, maritime logistics and...
FIRST WORLD WAR
A comprehensive field guide to the Battle of the Somme, 1 July–18 November 1916: why the offensive began, terrain and attack axes, order of battle, commanders, chronology, contemporary accounts, casualties and Gallus...
FIRST WORLD WAR
Biography of Major-General Hugh Trenchard as commander of the Royal Flying Corps in France, focusing on reconnaissance, artillery cooperation, air superiority, Bloody April and the transition to the RAF.
FIRST WORLD WAR
Biography of Major-General Sir David Henderson, one of the principal founders and early commanders of the Royal Flying Corps, from reconnaissance doctrine and the 1912 organisation to the creation of the RAF.
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