IWM and Sep 23, 1938 Mobilization
A Mobilization Decree made public seventy five years ago in the town of Bystrice pod Hostynem is seen in a ground floor of the IWM Lambeth Rd, London. Visitors´ attention is drawn to this window not only by a poster ´Poznej svoji armádu ´ but also by a Czechoslovak helmet and a pistol.
A Main Hall of the IWM is seen in the first excerpt. A one man German sub Biber, a fishing boat Tamzine used in the Dynamo Operation, an Italian underwater torpedo, a German 88 mm cannon, a German contact mine, a Wellington twin-engine bomber´s turret, a front part of a Lancaster heavy´s fuselage, Heinkel 162 Salamander, Sopwith Camel, BF2c No 2699, Spitfire Mk I, P 51D Mustang No 472218, and Fockewulf 190 aircraft, a cabin of a Zero fighter plane, a V1 and V2 rockets, a flak 30 and a German Wuerzburg radar are there. An Exhibition of Holocaust is seen on the third floor – HERE
Not only the rest of the story on a Paras daring assault on a Wurzburg radar at Bruneval on a French coast is mentioned on the second excerpt. You can see an GA missile Thunderbird 2, an English 13 pounder of the U battery in action at Mons on Nov 1, 1914, a 23 cm howitzer, a French 75 mm cannon, a gun of a Lance destroyer, a sixty lb howitzer, a Matilda tank, a one of Lt-Gen Montgomery, a Chevrolet Long Range Desert Group Truck, a mast periscope and a British MK V tank. A German Enigma Encryptic Machine is on the second floor. The Aden 1906 uprising, a German army between the Word Wars, the Sep 23, 1938 Mobilization Decree, an RAF and USAAF 1942 – 1945 ETO campaign, Monty´s battledress and a sword, a West Berlin Air Supply 1948 – 1949 campaign and an Iron Curtain, the Glosters Inf Reg on Imjin River, Korea on Apr 23, 1951, an Mau Mau uprising in Kenya in 1952, the NATO, a Vietnam War, erecting of a Berlin wall in Aug 1961, a Six Day and an Yom Kippur Wars and a certificate of a Soviet Youth Komsomol Organization´s member there. Other IWMs not only within London are mentioned in words - HERE
Only the IWM Belfast laying at anchor in the Pool of London and a www.iwm.org.uk website are mentioned in words in the third excerpt - HERE
All three excerpts are available in the ´CzAA in England 2004´ Subtopic of the ´Documentaries´ Topic