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.
ww2dbaseAlan now resides in Lincoln (founded by the Romans) and is married with three adult children. He is currrently employed, part-time, as a driver for a local Taxi company.
Latest Contributions
| Ship: X-class | 30 Oct 2019 |
| Vehicle: SU-152/ISU-152 | 25 Sep 2019 |
| Ship: Chariot-class | 18 Sep 2019 |
| Aircraft: IK-3 | 28 Aug 2019 |
| Person: Philippe de Hautecloque | 7 Aug 2019 |
| Vehicle: BA-64 | 24 Jul 2019 |
| Facility: Danesfield House | 29 May 2019 |
| Facility: Pentagon | 1 May 2019 |
| Ship: Parizhskava Kommuna | 24 Apr 2019 |
| Vehicle: SdKfz 165 Hummel | 3 Apr 2019 |
| Aircraft: M.14 Magister | 25 Mar 2019 |
| Person: Maynard Smith | 1 Mar 2019 |
| Facility: Möhnesee Dam | 18 Feb 2019 |
| Aircraft: Fw 44 Stieglitz | 21 Jan 2019 |
| Facility: ROF Chorley | 24 Oct 2018 |
| Person: Sergei Simonov | 17 Sep 2018 |
| Person: John Hoover | 5 Sep 2018 |
| Person: Harry Hopkins | 1 Aug 2018 |
| Person: Violette Szabo | 25 Jul 2018 |
| Person: Anna Roosevelt | 4 Jul 2018 |
Photographs/Maps Contributions
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Timeline Contributions
Alan Chanter has also contributed 3,177 entries in the WW2 Timeline. A small sample of his timeline contributions is shown below.» 30 Oct 1943: A report from German Commander-in-Chief, West Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt appeared on Aold Hitler's desk. It described the shabby situation on the English Channel coast in France. Consequently Field Marshal Erwin Rommel would be despached by the German High Command to insect the Atlantic Wall defences and to submit a report. Read More» 17 Oct 1943: The British 42nd Armoured Division was disbanded; its infantry formations being assigned to the 53rd (Welsh) Infantry Division and its armoured formations to the 79th Armoured Division.
» 9 Nov 1943: Major General Roy Geiger became the commanding general of I Amphibious Corps following the death of Major General Charles Barrett in the previous month. Read More
» 8 Apr 1943: The first modified Lancaster ED765/G ("G" for "Guard" denoting the special security arrangements required) bomber was delivered to the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom for planned attacks against German dams.
» 15 Nov 1948: French-Canadian politician Louis St. Laurent was sworn in as the new Prime Minister of Canada.
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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 [email protected] 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
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Winston Churchill, 1935
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