Typhoons at Falaise by Nicolas Trudgian (AP) SIG457 Flying Bristol Beaufighter T4843 (WR-X)

Flying Bristol Beaufighter T4843 (WR-X)

Nelsons revolutionary battle plan was to cut apart the larger Franco-Spanish fleet of Vice-Admiral Villeneuve by sailing in two single column divisions directly at right angles into the combined fleet and thus rendering almost half of the leading ships useless until the could turn and join the fight

the Virginia was limping away

taking his final total to 110

Confederate skirmishers of the 19th Virginia Volunteers take over behind a farmhouse during the early stages of the war 1861

Typhoons at Falaise by Nicolas Trudgian (AP) SIG457 Flying Bristol Beaufighter T4843 (WR-X)DHM2454AP. Typhoons at Falaise by Nicolas Trudgian. It is August 1944, barely two months since the Allies landed their first troops on the beaches of Normandy. Already the German Panzer Divisions are in full retreat, and it is critical to halt them before they can regroup. Caught in the Gap at Falaise, the battle was to be decisive. Flying throughout a continuous onslaught, rocket firing Typhoons kept up their attacks on the trapped armoured divisions