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  • Cuckfield Royal Observer Corps Post – Open Days

    Cuckfield Royal Observer Corps Post Newbury Lane, Cuckfield, West Sussex, United Kingdom
    Non-SMHS Event

    Open only on 18/7/26: 1200-1600, 19/7/26: 1000-1300, 29/8/26:1200-1600, 30/8/26: 1000-1300 NB: The post is locked and secure at all other times and no equipment is stored inside. Step back into the Cold War at the Cuckfield ROC Post, one of the few surviving and fully restored Royal Observer Corps nuclear monitoring bunkers in the UK. This […]

    Free

  • Italian POWs march to waiting landing craft during the Allied invasion of Sicily, July 1943

    Operation HUSKY: the largest amphibious invasion of the Second World War? – Graham Moore

    Lewes Town Hall High Street, Lewes, East Sussex, United Kingdom
    Talk

    Up to June 1944, Op Husky was certainly the largest amphibious invasion of WW2. Op HUSKY was the invasion of Sicily in July 1943 by the western Allies. Some historians contend that it was larger than Op OVERLORD but based on the number of divisions landed on Day and the size of the Landing Zone.

    £6