Richard Hone

Richard Hone

Richard Hone - WW 2 Armoured Vehicles and Weapon Historian After a full 22 year career in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, much of it spent in Germany, Richard turned his intimate knowledge of tanks and armoured vehicles into a passionate and long-standing hobby. Model making, for which he is renowned, combined with a detailed knowledge of Wehrmacht orders of battle and tactics, makes him an important part of the BHTV team in all our Second World War films.  Richard’s other great enthusiasm are the soldiers of the Durham Light Infantry and their battles. Included in his film credits is ‘Finding Uncle Bill’; a worked example of how to not only follow an ancestors Great War documentary trail but to also visit the battlefields where he fought. William Pye who died in the advance south of the Ypres Salient less than a month before the end of the war, was Richard’s Uncle Bill. Richard was the fifth generation of his familly to serve his 

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Richard Hone Movies

  • 2012
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    SAS Operation Bulbasket: Part 2 - Destruction of the French railways

    SAS Operation Bulbasket: Part 2 - Destruction of the French railways

    1 2012 HD

    Continuing the story of 'Operation Bulbasket' the BHTV team follow the development of the attacks on the railways in order to delay the arrival of...

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  • 2013
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    Assault on Normandy: Gold Beach - Battle for the Beaches

    Assault on Normandy: Gold Beach - Battle for the Beaches

    1 2013 HD

    Gold Beach is the story of the highly successful assault by 50th Northumbrian Division and 231 Malta Bde on the central beach of the Allied D day...

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  • 2012
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    Assault on Normandy: Sword Beach

    Assault on Normandy: Sword Beach

    1 2012 HD

    The 3rd Division was in the van of the D Day assault force. Their task was to break through Hitler's Atlantic Wall on a stretch of Normandy beach...

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  • 2013
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    Battle of the Bulge: Panzer Marche - The Dash for Bastogne

    Battle of the Bulge: Panzer Marche - The Dash for Bastogne

    1 2013 HD

    In this programe we examine the background to the campaign with a leading American historian before following the advance of one of Hitler's most...

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  • 2014
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    Assault on Normandy: Pointe du Hoc

    Assault on Normandy: Pointe du Hoc

    1 2014 HD

    This film tells the story of Col Rudder’s 2nd Ranger Bn and their heroic attack on the gun battery at Pointe du Hoc, which covered both Omaha...

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  • 2015
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    The Germans in Normandy: 6th Fallschirmjaeger

    The Germans in Normandy: 6th Fallschirmjaeger

    1 2015 HD

    The German paratroopers established a reputation in Crete as an elite force. A battalion commander now led a new Fallschirmjäger regiment,...

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  • 2010
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    Wittmann v Ekins: The Death of a Panzer Ace

    Wittmann v Ekins: The Death of a Panzer Ace

    1 2010 HD

    At about 1230 on the 8th August 1944 near St Aignan in Normandy Hauptsturmführer Michael Wittmann the top German tank ace and Coy Comd in an SS...

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  • 2015
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    Battle of the Bulge: Siege of Bastogne

    Battle of the Bulge: Siege of Bastogne

    1 2015 HD

    With the Fifth Panzer Army fighting its way towards the River Meuse, the cross roads town of Bastogne, vital for the success of Hitler's last attempt...

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  • 2013
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    Assault on Normandy: Gold Beach - Battle for the Beachhead

    Assault on Normandy: Gold Beach - Battle for the Beachhead

    1 2013 HD

    69 Infantry Brigade had a highly successful landing and now had to fight its way through German defences to its objectives eight miles away. It was...

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    Battle of the Bulge: Saint Vith

    Battle of the Bulge: Saint Vith

    1 2015 HD

    The Northern most thrust into the wintery Ardennes of General Manteuffel's Fifth Panzer Army fell on the inexperienced 106th US Infantry Division,...

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  • 2016
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    Battle of the Bulge: Kampfgruppe Peiper

    Battle of the Bulge: Kampfgruppe Peiper

    1 2016 HD

    This film tells the story of one of the most contentious combats of WW2, the actions of Kamfgruppe Peiper during the Battle of the Bulge.From the...

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  • 2012
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    12th Hitlerjugend Panzer Division

    12th Hitlerjugend Panzer Division

    1 2012 HD

    The most implacable opponents of the British and Canadians fighting in Normandy were the largely teenage soldiers of the Hitlerjugend. From D+1...

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  • 2012
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    Operation Market Garden: Arnhem - Battle for the Oosterbeek Perimeter

    Operation Market Garden: Arnhem - Battle for the Oosterbeek Perimeter

    1 2012 HD

    With 2 Para isolated at the Arnhem Bridge and both 1 and 4 Para Brigades thwarted in their attempts to fight their way into Arnhem and falling back,...

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    Operation Market Garden: Nijmegen

    Operation Market Garden: Nijmegen

    1 2012 HD

    Following on from the story of Hell's Highway, the series reaches the battle to seize the great Bridges over two of Europe's largest water ways; the...

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