2nd US Cavalry 1862 by Jim Lancia.(P) NRG2 This was the start of

This was the start of the Forty Five which would end with the defeat of the Jacobite Army on Drumossie Moor at the battle of Culloden 16th April 1746

it was the cruelest of ironies that Halifax III LK789 (MP-L) of 76 Sqn should fall victim to a lone German fighter that was lurking in the night skies above Norfolk

At the forefront of the German panzer divisions and leading the advances into France were the Kradschutzen Truppen or motorcycle troops

Race to Frankowka

2nd US Cavalry 1862 by Jim Lancia.(P) NRG2 This was the start ofDHM818P. 2nd US Cavalry 1862 by Jim Lancia. Formed in 1836 as the Second Dragoons, the regiment served in Florida during the Seminole wars until 1842, then on the Louisiana and Arkansas frontier, in the war with Mexico from 1846 through 1848, on the frontier again from Kansas to New Mexico, in the Mormon Campaign of 1858, and then eastward in 1861 for the American Civil War, which is our period of interest. During the conflict the regiment (renamed