Alan Chanter
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.
Latest Contributions
| Aircraft: DH.95 Flamingo | 23 Aug 2023 |
| Aircraft: Bre.521 Bizerte | 21 Jun 2023 |
| Vehicle: SdKfz 186 Jagdtiger | 7 Jun 2023 |
| Other: Special Operations Executive | 29 May 2023 |
| Aircraft: Latécoère 298 | 22 May 2023 |
| Person: Fritz Kolbe | 17 Apr 2023 |
| Person: Josephine Baker | 15 Mar 2023 |
| Vehicle: Light Tank Mk VI | 22 Feb 2023 |
| Weapon: ZB-53 vz. 37 | 15 Feb 2023 |
| Weapon: ZB-60 | 15 Feb 2023 |
| Person: William Joyce | 8 Feb 2023 |
| Aircraft: N-3PB | 25 Jan 2023 |
| Vehicle: Guy Armored Car | 18 Jan 2023 |
| Vehicle: Infantry Mk I Matilda | 11 Jan 2023 |
| Aircraft: Harrow | 4 Jan 2023 |
| Aircraft: Vincent | 28 Dec 2022 |
| Vehicle: UE | 21 Dec 2022 |
| Other: Special Air Service | 14 Dec 2022 |
| Aircraft: Ar 96 | 2 Dec 2022 |
| Vehicle: SdKfz 161/3 Möbelwagen | 23 Nov 2022 |
Photographs/Maps Contributions
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Timeline Contributions
Alan Chanter has also contributed 3,230 entries in the WW2 Timeline. A small sample of his timeline contributions is shown below.» 28 Apr 1942: The historic Guildhall in York, England, United Kingdom was destroyed by fire started by a German air raid on the city.» 14 Sep 1914: Kaiser William II appointed Lieutenant General Falkenhayn, the German Minister of War, to the post of Chief of the General Staff of the Army.
» 10 Jun 1945: The Australian 2/9th Armoured Regiment with an attached troop of Matilda flamethrower tanks landed at Labaun, Straits Settlements.
» 29 Jun 1942: The first USAAF involvement in the European air war occurred when one American crew joined No. 226 Squadron RAF at RAF Swanton Morley in Norfolk, England, United Kingdom for a raid on northern France.
» 11 Jun 1937: Spitfire fighter designer Reginald J. Mitchell died of cancer, aged 42.
» 6 Dec 1944: The British 2nd Army was denied the prize of Arnhem in the Netherlands when the Germans demolished dykes and flooded the area between Arnhem and Nijmegen.
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Visitor Submitted Comments
1 Sep 2017 10:08:19 AM
Please could I ask you contact me as Sgt George Benton is my grandfather and you mentioned him in one of your threads ref Dunkirk - he used a stretcher to walk over on East mole to take casualties to a ship to be casivac -my email is stellarithornton@gmail.com
Thank you so much
Stella
17 Feb 2018 01:43:54 PM
For 23 Feb 1943, AC sites "seven tankers sunk by ACOUSTIC TORPEDOES."
The Germans did not deploy such devices until march of that year, per Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G7e_torpedo#G7e
Scroll down to the citation for the model G7e/T4 Falke
All the best, Tom Lee
7 Mar 2023 02:36:36 AM
I am a great Neice of Jack Frith, killed in the Suez Maru atrocity, and have written a book on the atrocity - and you have erroneously repeated the myth that there was a survivor. this myth is sometimes presented as an 'amusing anecdote' but we the families do not find it amusing, and I would like to request that you remove the sentence ' Of the 549 British and Dutch prisoners, there was only one survivor, Kenneth Thomas, who was picked up twenty-four hours later by an Australian ship. ww2dbase [AC] '
The myth was perpetuated by COFEPOW and they have removed the source, probably from D Courant. Please refer to the family group on facebook @suezmaru
I would be grateful for your understanding on this point.
JFC
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Captain Henry P. Jim Crowe, Guadalcanal, 13 Jan 1943
9 Aug 2016 07:34:01 AM
Your article for 9 Aug 1924 says that this was the date the Shenandoah docked with the Patoka - and may, in the date-line boundary sense of the world, be correct. However, the US Naval History and Heritage Command web site, and others, show and 8 Aug date of that event. I think you are a day off. Check: https://www.history.navy.mil/today-in-history/august-8.html