WW2 Dispatches: News From the Front

Flak to Uboat

Fighter Plane postcard image by Joe Haput CC BY-SA

By Cosmic Poet Simon Pole

˂—| Flak |—˃

Silver raindrops in the sky,
Flashing where the bombers fly.
Wings fall way, the pilot slumped,
Still the wicked bombs are dumped.

˂—| Gaulle, Charles de |—˃

Charles de Gaulle, brave Charles de Gaulle,
Nature made you very tall.
Tougher than the old oak tree,
Grown to make all Frenchmen free.

˂—| Hawker Hurricane |—˃

Forget not the Hurricane,
Though eclipsed by Spitfire’s reign.
They against the Luftwaffe flew,
Britain saved by gallant few.

˂—| Junkers Ju 87 |—˃

Steeply Stukas screaming dive,
Burst bombs bury troops alive.
If this War should ever end,
God to Hell will Stuka send.

˂—| Stug III & IV |—˃

Squat and brutal like a boar,
Crouching with its lust for gore.
In its lair, concealed, it sits,
Till the piercing shells it spits.

˂—| Uboat |—˃

Uboat slipping through the sea,
Convoys crossing secretly.
Men torpedoed thrashing cry,
Cold the deep where husbands lie.