


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
Aircraft: Pe-8 | 10 Mar 2021Â |
Vehicle: M18 Hellcat | 27 Jan 2021Â |
Person: Frederick Cotton | 6 Jan 2021Â |
Vehicle: Universal Carrier | 2 Dec 2020Â |
Person: Vera Rosenberg | 28 Oct 2020Â |
Ship: Isaac Sweers | 30 Sep 2020Â |
Ship: MT | 2 Sep 2020Â |
Person: Fritz Todt | 26 Aug 2020Â |
Aircraft: York | 22 Jul 2020Â |
Person: Mavis Batey | 10 Jul 2020Â |
Aircraft: C-64 Norseman | 17 Jun 2020Â |
Weapon: US Army M1943 | 20 May 2020Â |
Vehicle: WL | 1 May 2020Â |
Aircraft: N3N | 1 Apr 2020Â |
Weapon: Norden | 25 Mar 2020Â |
Vehicle: Panhard Type 178 | 11 Mar 2020Â |
Facility: La Coupole | 4 Mar 2020Â |
Weapon: Enigma Machine | 22 Jan 2020Â |
Aircraft: Firebrand | 27 Dec 2019Â |
Weapon: Anderson Shelter | 4 Dec 2019Â |
Photographs/Maps Contributions
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Timeline Contributions
Alan Chanter has also contributed 3,228 entries in the WW2 Timeline. A small sample of his timeline contributions is shown below.» 19 Jan 1942: The US 2nd Marine Brigade (detached from 2nd Marine division) with 8th Marines arrived in American Samoa.» 1 Jun 1944: In a Daily Telegraph crossword puzzle the solution to 15 Down was "Neptune", the codename for the D-Day naval assault.
» 6 Feb 1922: The Naval Armament Limitation Treaty was signed.
» 22 Dec 1941: The Japanese 55th Division, commanded by Lieutenant General Takeuchi Yutaka, assembled at Bangkok, Thailand and was issued orders for it to cross the Thai-Burma frontier and capture Moulmein, which happened to be held by the Headquarters of 17th Indian Division.
» 17 Feb 1941: British Admiral Sir Percy Noble was appointed Commander-in-Chief Western Approaches.
» 21 Dec 1943: The first Firebrand TF.III aircraft, equipped with Bristol Centaurus VII engine, took its first flight.
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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 stellarithornton@gmail.com
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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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