By Prosper Keating

Derek Chambers is a self-taught painter. His natural talent and gift for scale and perspective shines through in works like ‘The Call-On, Isle of Dogs c.1950’. His …

[Special thanks to Colin ‘Taff’ Edwards, Geoff Butler and others who sent in many of the photographs used in this article.]

Fifty years to the …

By Ian Marshall

Editor’s Introduction

Ian Marshall, who served with 2 PARA, the Pathfinder Platoon and the Red Devils, is regarded as one of the most experienced parachutists in the world, with more than 12,500 …

by Prosper Keating

On April 28^th 2017, RAF Brize Norton issued a communiqué: “For the first time since the Second World War, Physical Training Instructors from the British Army will graduate as Parachute Jump Instructors (PJIs) at RAF Brize …

THE INDIAN ARNHEM by Myles Sanderson

Foreword by the Editor

If the small groups of 50^th (Indian) Para Bde survivors who made it back through the jungle to Imphal after the Battle of Sangshak felt defeated, they were wrong. …

Niall Cherry, late of 23 & 144 PFA, tells the story of The Two Lieutenants.

This is the story of two young officers from The Parachute Regiment who took part …

By Mark Briggs

Part 1

British government policy over the past two decades has been to encourage and grow the film industry in the United Kingdom. Many of the major Hollywood directors and production companies now base their film and …

By Prosper Keating

“THE MEN WON’T LIKE IT IF WE LET WOMEN HAVE PARACHUTE WINGS!”

We do not know who might have said this during the 1939-1945 War but someone decided …