British anti-aircraft gunners fire from a 94-mm gun (Ordnance QF 3.7 inch).

Anti-aircraft battery

The Great Panjandrum, were two massive, rocket-propelled, 10 foot wooden wheels, connected by 2 tons of explosives. It was meant to be launched by a landing ship on D-Day, race up the beach and blow a massive hole in the Atlantic Wall.

It was one of a number of highly experimental projects that were developed by the Admiralty’s Directorate of Miscellaneous Weapons Development (DMWD). The Panjandrum was never used in battle because it proved to be more dangerous to the the ones that launched it than it was to the Germans!
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Panjandrum

In August 1941 RAF pilot Douglas Bader was shot down over Le Tourquet and was captured. 

Bader was given full courtesy by the Luftwaffe fighter squadron that shoot him down, and was allowed to sit in the cockpit of the ME 109. 

Pictured here is also Adolf Galland, who became a peacetime friend of Bader.