His fictional spy network was so efficient and verbose that his German handlers were overwhelmed and made no further attempts to recruit any additional spies in the UK, according to the Official History of British Intelligence in WW2.

* Frank Inglis ( 1899 – 1969 ), Head of RAF Intelligence in WW2

and head of RAF Intelligence during WW2 and on Adolf Hitler's hit list for after the war should Germany have won!

At the outbreak of WW2, the Air Ministry recognised the requirement for formalised Intelligence training and established a number of courses to teach Volunteer Reserve Officers the art of Intelligence analysis.

Following the end of WW2, the Branch was split up into Administrative and Special Duties Branch ( Photography ) and Administrative and Special Duties Branch ( Signals ), with no dedicated Air Intelligence specialisation.

* Devisenschutzkommando was a Nazi police unit during WW2 against black market, economic extorsion and Jewish expropriation in occupied Europe.

After WW2, Japanese railroads favored multiple unit type trains, even on its mainlines.

The existence of the unit and its contribution to WW2 has been almost totally ignored.

* A captured Würzburg radar unit is used to develop WW2 countermeasures.

A predecessor of the WW2 German " 88 " anti-aircraft gun, the WWI German 77 mm anti-aircraft gun, was truck-mounted and used to great effect against British tanks.

He also had some public support for his staying on in the War Cabinet for the duration, which was strongly backed by Sir Maurice Hankey, former WW1 Colonel and member of both WW1 & WW2 War Cabinets.

* BBC. co. uk, " When smog was a frequent occurrence, WW2 People's War, BBC 2005-08-10.

There were also some Children's spy novels made in the 21st century about WW2 including Henderson's Boys which was a spin off CHERUB, the same thing but based in the present day.

World War II, or the Second World War ( often abbreviated as WWII or WW2 ), was a global war that was under way by 1939 and ended in 1945.

Used extensively in WW2, there was a huge expansion of 16 mm professional filmmaking in the post-war years.

While Tibet has formally been a part of China since 1644 as part of the Qing Dynasty, from 1912 to 1950 Tibet was dissolved from China proper as a result of the 1911 Revolution and Japanese occupation during WW2.

In addition to their heavyweight Wagnerian cousins, there was a plethora of baritones with more lyrical voices active in Germany and Austria during the period between the outbreak of WW1 in 1914 and the end of WW2 in 1945.

; WW2: Although the works for the latter were completed by the outbreak of war the opening was delayed, and the section, safer as it was from bombing, was used as a long, narrow, munitions factory by the Plessey company.

In WW2, the West Sale RAAF base was the landing site of 2 Japanese Mitsubishi Zeros.

Her father was a decorated Gurkha officer who fought in WW2.

The castle saw several engagements during the Hundred Years ' War ( 1346, 1417, 1450 ) and was in use as a barracks as late as the Second World War, bullet holes are visable on the walls of the castle where members of the French Resistance were shot during WW2.

Before this park was created, the area was known as ' The Gun Sites ', as it had been the location for anti-aircraft guns in WW2, and was the home of the 1st Petts Wood scout group.

Wapping was devastated by German bombing in World War II < cite > My Mum's War: Life in the East End-BBC WW2 People's War accessed 1 April 2007 </ cite ></ ref > and by the post-war closure of the docks.

Later, after WW2, in the late 1940s to mid 1950 many other R / C designs emerged and some were sold commercially, Berkeley's Super Aerotrol, was one such example.

* Thomas Mantell, a decorated WW2 pilot, was the first member of the Kentucky Air National Guard to die in flight.

This was an inward-looking economic theory practiced by developed nations post WW2.

The last, the massive Derfflinger, was raised from a record depth of 45 metres just before work was suspended with the start of WW2, before being towed to Rosyth where it was finally broken up in 1946.

The Home Guard also featured in the 1971 Disney film Bedknobs and Broomsticks, and in the 2003 " War Games " episode of the British detective series Foyle's War, which is set in Hastings during WW2.

One interesting feature which set the Brixia mortar apart from comparable WW2 weapons was that it was trigger fired with the help of separate ignition cartridges to be fed into a special magazine, making the weapon more similar to modern cannon-mortars that conventional parabolic grenade launchers of the time.

Recordings of Lidell's news bulletins have been included in many films set in Britain during WW2, such as Battle of Britain.

The town was home to Sir Nicholas Winton whose heroic efforts rescued 669 Jewish children from Czechoslovakia during the run up to WW2.

The town was known during the early 1900s up until WW2 for the fruit which was produced in its orchards.

That made necessary the protection of the infantry soldiers while they were advancing, requiring the development of mechanized infantry ( also known in the US Army during WW2 as armored infantry ) that could keep up with the tanks, and afford some protection to the infantrymen against shrapnel by using armoured vehicles for transport.

Lawncrest saw several population " booms " over the years, particularly during 1920s – 1950s era, with Pre and Post WW2 Residents building the neighborhood up from the small farming community it was prior to.

Quarters for the rest of the crew were never seen, and given the size of the submarine – not much longer than a WW2 U-boat, and a third of that taken up with the aircraft section – they could not have been large.

During the 1950s, Bogarde came to prominence playing a hoodlum who shoots and kills a police constable in The Blue Lamp ( 1950 ) co-starring Jack Warner and Bernard Lee ; a handsome artist who comes to rescue of Jean Simmons during the World's Fair in Paris in So Long at the Fair, a film noir thriller ; an accidental murderer who befriends a young boy played by Jon Whiteley in Hunted ( aka The Stranger in Between ) ( 1952 ); in Appointment in London ( 1953 ) as a young Wing-Commander in Bomber Command who, against orders, opts to fly his 90th mission with his men in a major air offensive against the Germans ; an unjustly imprisoned man who regains hope in clearing his name when he learns his sweetheart, Mai Zetterling, is still alive in Desperate Moment ( 1953 ); Doctor in the House ( 1954 ), as a medical student, in a film that made Bogarde one of the most popular British stars of the 1950s, and co-starring Kenneth More, Donald Sinden and James Robertson Justice as their crabby mentor ; The Sleeping Tiger ( 1954 ), playing a neurotic criminal with co-star Alexis Smith, and Bogarde's first film for American expatriate director Joseph Losey ; Doctor at Sea ( 1955 ), co-starring Brigitte Bardot in one of her first film roles ; as a returning Colonial who fights the Mau-Mau with Virginia McKenna and Donald Sinden in Simba ( 1955 ); Cast a Dark Shadow ( 1955 ), as a man who marries women for money and then murders them ; The Spanish Gardener ( 1956 ), co-starring Michael Hordern, Jon Whiteley, and Cyril Cusack ; Doctor at Large ( 1957 ), again with Donald Sinden, another entry in the " Doctor films series ", co-starring later Bond-girl Shirley Eaton ; the Powell and Pressburger production Ill Met by Moonlight ( 1957 ) co-starring Marius Goring as the German General Kreipe, kidnapped on Crete by Patrick " Paddy " Leigh Fermor ( Bogarde ) and a fellow band of adventurers based on W. Stanley Moss ' real-life account of the WW2 caper ; A Tale of Two Cities ( 1958 ), a faithful retelling of Charles Dickens ' classic ; as a Flt.

Before WW2 it made a number of models for the Queen Mary's Dolls ' House, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and now at Windsor Castle, stained-glass work ( on which Twining was an expert ) and astronomical telescopes.

Traill House, a large & imposing country home was the home of the Traill family, it was located in the woods at Castlehill, in later years it was owned by the Crumb-Ewing family, it became delelict after WW2 & burned down in the late 50's.

Vice versa it helps to trace a child that a Canadian soldier fathered in the UK during or shortly after WW2.

* Canadian War Children born in UK Help in tracing Canadian fathers WW2

* Tommy Atkins Society British WW2 Reenactment Society in the UK, and winner of the Best Display Award at the Victory Show 2007 sponsored by the Armchair General Magazine.

Aircraft heights for air traffic control and related purposes are measured in feet in the U. S. In fact, most of the world has used feet for aviation altitudes since the end of WW2 ( meters before 1945 in all European countries except the UK ), with the notable exceptions of China, North Korea, Russia and many other CIS ( former Soviet ) countries.

In WW2 considerable effort was expended on identifying secret transmitters in the United Kingdom ( UK ) by direction finding.

* Post WW2 Hoover cleaners from the UK

For many years, broken by WW2, there was an annual school exchange between the gymnasium in Zehlendorf and Wallasey Grammar School in the UK.