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
| 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 |
| Aircraft: Bü 181 | 23 Apr 2018 |
| Vehicle: Commercial C8 FAT | 18 Apr 2018 |
| Facility: Old Buckenham Airfield | 4 Apr 2018 |
| Person: Alton Miller | 26 Mar 2018 |
| Vehicle: Carden Loyd | 28 Feb 2018 |
| Aircraft: M.9 Master | 21 Dec 2017 |
| Aircraft: Wellesley | 3 Nov 2017 |
| Aircraft: Proctor | 29 Sep 2017 |
| Facility: Debach Airfield | 1 Sep 2017 |
| Facility: Bletchley Park | 4 Aug 2017 |
| Facility: RAF Newchurch | 16 Jun 2017 |
| Ship: Exeter | 24 May 2017 |
| Ship: Glorious | 14 Apr 2017 |
| Ship: LST-412 | 1 Mar 2017 |
| Ship: Nevada | 14 Jan 2017 |
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Timeline Contributions
Alan Chanter has also contributed 3,098 entries in the WW2 Timeline. A small sample of his timeline contributions is shown below.» 26 Jul 1941: Six Italian E-boats escorted by MC.200 fighters attempted to attack shipping in Valletta's Grand Harbour at Malta. The Hurricane fighters of Nos. 126 and 185 Squadrons were scrambled and set about the E-boats, sinking four and causing the other two to surrender.» 28 Aug 1945: The minesweeper USS Lucid was transferred to the Republic of China (renamed Yung Ting) under the Lend-Lease programme.
» 11 Sep 1943: US and French troops landed on the French island of Corsica in the Mediterranean Sea.
» 6 Sep 1940: German aircraft bombed the town of Grantham. This town, which contained the mansion St Vincents Hall that housed the headquarters of No. 5 Group RAF Bomber Command, would be bombed on twelve occasions up to the end of the year making it, for a while, the most bombed town in England, United Kingdom.
» 10 Apr 1940: Fleet Air Arm Skua dive bombers sank the German cruiser Königsberg in Bergen harbour in Norway. She was the first major warship to be sunk by dive bombing in the war. Read More
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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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Thomas Dodd, late 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