Category: WW2

Not for Ourselves, but for Others

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Laurence Harvey in The Manchurian Candidate

  A little snippet of relatively unknown South African history. Here’s another South African military veteran from the Second World War who went on to become a famous movie star.…
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Derrick Dickens

  Another South African Air Force artwork by renowned aviation artist Derrick Dickens’, part of his collection of South African Air Force paintings. These are SAAF Beaufighters attacking German ships…
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Gerard Ross Norton VC MM (7 September 1915 – 29 October 2004)

  Celebrating true South African heroes and here is another Victoria Cross recipient, this is his story whilst taking part in the Italian campaign during World War 2, Gerard Ross…
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