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: 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 |
| Aircraft: Bf 108 Taifun | 14 Jun 2018 |
| Ship: Neptune | 23 May 2018 |
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Timeline Contributions
Alan Chanter has also contributed 3,160 entries in the WW2 Timeline. A small sample of his timeline contributions is shown below.» 18 Dec 1941: HMS Neptune struck a mine off Libya. Read More» 25 Sep 1940: Adolf Galland was awarded Oak Leaves to his Knight's Cross by Adolf Hitler for achieving 40 kills. Read More
» 23 Jul 1936: The Committee of National Defence, the Spanish Nationalist Government, met for the first time in Burgos.
» 3 Mar 1931: The US Congress formally adopted "The Star Spangled Banner" as the US national anthem.
» 4 Oct 1940: Sir Richard Peirse became Commander-in-Chief of the British RAF Bomber Command.
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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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Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, 16 Mar 1945
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