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
| Weapon: Enigma Machine | 22 Jan 2020 |
| Aircraft: Firebrand | 27 Dec 2019 |
| Weapon: Anderson Shelter | 4 Dec 2019 |
| 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 |
Photographs/Maps Contributions
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Timeline Contributions
Alan Chanter has also contributed 3,200 entries in the WW2 Timeline. A small sample of his timeline contributions is shown below.» 6 Dec 1938: France and Germany signed a pact which purported to guarantee the existing frontiers between the two countries.» 7 Sep 1939: The city of Lodz, Poland was captured by the German 8th Army after the Lodz Army failed to halt their advance.
» 17 Feb 1938: Spanish Nationalist General Juan Yagüe's Moroccan forces crossed the River Alfambra in Spain, effectively cutting off Teruel from the north.
» 16 Sep 1931: The Invergordon Mutiny crisis passed when the British Admiralty promised to revise the proposed cuts. The mutiny caused such alarm on the exchange markets that the government was provoked into taking sterling off the gold standard.
» 11 Oct 1927: Princess Josèphine-Charlotte (later the Grand Duchess of Luxembourg) of Belgium was born at the Royal Palace in Brussels.
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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
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