33 results found for: Amphibious Tanks
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…on their way at 0800, they proceeded toward land at four knots. From five to seven waves of assault troops in amphibian tractors followed the tanks at short intervals.6 Opposite each landing beach, control craft, with pennants flying from the mast, formed the assault waves of amphibious vehicles in rotating…
…through BURMA, where he was recommended for a Bar to hls DCM but all the documentation was lost; SCHWEBO, MONYWA (where a badgeless General SLIM borrowed his radio, with another of his tanks and crew being lost); SHWEGUN became a rear-guard action and the tanks were then destroyed before the…
…Opening with a sustained artillery barrage which lasted over an hour and caused heavy casualties, the attack followed up with an infantry assault supported by five medium tanks. After a firefight the Gurkha perimeter was broken and Japanese infantry poured through with three of the tanks. ‘B’ Company, with Ganju,…
…of 4 tanks, then 4 troops of 3 tanks, important acclimatisation and disciplines, plus the AHMADNAGAR Cdr courses at the Fighting Vehicle School; main move forward,, shortly after a big draft from 26th HUSSARS Oct43,to ASSAM & Milestone119 were at night, where possible, for security in 1944, on 15 March…
…the Newsletter (bottom of the page) and we’ll let you know when we’ve done more justice in writing up our extraordinary signatories. US NAVY’s vital 13th FLOTILLA/TF13 Amphibious Force, PACIFIC LANDING SHIP TANKS & destroyer escorts, Hawaii ISLAND battles; wife’s brothers: PATTON’s 2nd Arm’s DIV & USN. Representing MARINES wounded…
…on SWORD BEACH, his platoon taking ST HONORÉ. He saw RAF TYPHOONS wiping out German tanks at FALAISE, with SEAFORTHs going forward on KANGAROO TANKS here; James won his MM at the RHINE CROSSING at REES with the 2nd Bn SEAFORTH HIGHLANDERS, finally at VE-DAY reaching BREMERVORDE; his grandfather was…
…He then described the major offensive south-west of Bapaune later that month when tanks went into action. It was an incredible sight. We were going to win the war! All the infantry chaps were moving cheering the tanks. We saw no German aircraft. We dominated the skies – the infantry…
…naval bombardment was still in progress but shortly they had used their two Oerlikon guns. Tom’s LCT was right at the front on Gold Beach. Holding two Centaur tanks and one Sherman, two approaches had to be made after the Sherman’s engine refused to start for their first landing and…
…the reconstruction of a Skua. SKUAS OF THE FLEET AIR ARM ATTACK THE OIL TANKS AND JETTY AT DOLVIK NEAR BERGEN. 1940, AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS, OVER NORWAY. The tail of one of the Blackburn Skuas seen as the squadron returns home leaving the tanks burning. © IWM A 84 For a…
…avoiding supersonic booms; practice dogfights; development of low level strafing role; dislike of use of outboard drop fuel tanks on long navigational exercises to increase unit flying time statistics; question of dropping drop tanks. REEL 12 Continues: detachment on Exercise Brownjug to Shleswigland airfield and operating over Denmark including importance…
…in due course: please sign up to the Newsletter (bottom of the page) and we’ll let you know when we’ve done more justice in writing up our extraordinary signatories. ROYAL TANK REGIMENT, ex Wandsworth TERRITORIAL, El Alamein. For: VALENTINE, STUART, CRUSADER & SHERMAN TANKS & as Chairman EIGHTH ARMY ASSN….
…tanks & factories, plus important, explosives ingredients. With ROYAL ENGINEER experience in the MIDDLE and FAR EAST, his signature recalls here the vital BRIDGE BUILDING and ASSAULT ENGINEERS, in providing BAILEY & PONTOON BRIDGES & surmounting the big RIVER CROSSINGS, SEINE & RHINE, often working under fire to tight deadlines,…
…to the Newsletter (bottom of the page) and we’ll let you know when we’ve done more justice in writing up our extraordinary signatories. Named after two uncles killed in the same week in WWI: for Duplex Drive TANKS on D-DAY, for CHURCHILLS & ARMOURED vehicles into Europe from D-DAY onwards….
#205 AIDAN of SPROT Lieutenant Colonel AIDAN of SPROT MC JP (ROYAL SCOTS GREYS 2nd DRAGOONS) PALESTINE, last to mechanize, DESERT, NORMANDY, HONEY TANKS, CAEN/FALAISE, MC R. ALLER & race to BALTIC #200 James ALDRIDGE Sergeant Major James ALDRIDGE MM (father GALLIPOLI, brother TORPEDOED twice) for SEAFORTH HIGHLANDERS, EL ALAMEIN,…
…which simulated an amphibious landing in the Pas de Calais, and was timed to coincide with the actual D-Day landings in Normandy. Over the next few weeks Curtis attacked many of the large V-1 storage sites in northern France using the 12,000lb “Tallboy” bomb. On September 15 No 617 flew…
…increasing respect for himself and a type of aircraft then still regarded as decidedly dodgy. Flying Tanks and ‘Tiffies’ Aka Aircraft In Combat Action (1945) When in June 1943 a second “test” was decreed, Beamont rejoined Hawkers where he tested the Tempest, a yet more powerful and efficient machine which…
…made it home with but a few gallons of gas left in our tanks.” Their aircraft was numbered 27 and John Sutherland, tail gunner, had five kills. John was born in1919 and his American parents moved from farming in Canada to Independence, Kansas and began his service in December 1941,…
…offs, the civilians were installing special tanks. We flew down on the aircraft we were to use and as volunteers we were selected by Doolittle and Jack Hilger. We were temporarily assigned to ehe Navy – that has never happened since. The navigator got us right in and of course…
…on the fine contribution of Maj Gen “Pete” Quesada and AM Broadhurst in further developing tactical air-ground warfare during the European campaign with microwave early warning radar (MEW) direction of ‘cab rank’ fighter bombers already airborne and close by, and placing pilots as forward air controllers inside tanks equipped with…
…beaten back with rifle-butts by the guards. When you see something like that, nothing is ever quite the same again…We felt as if we were an embarrassment; while everyone else had been involved in a war of tanks and machine guns, we had been engaged in one of disease and…
…No 241 prepared to move to Algeria following the successful Operation Torch landings. Re-equipped with the Spitfire, he led his pilots on intensive operations against enemy tanks and convoys as the Allied army advanced towards Tunisia. When General George Patton, the US Army commander, asked Barker to attack a target…
…to the saddle tank below and detonate. While Gould held the bomb still, Roberts put an old potato sack round the bomb and tied it with a length of rope. The bomb was too heavy to be thrown clear of the saddle tanks, so they manhandled it 100 ft forward…
…He was recommended for the Victoria Cross, but this was downgraded to a Distinguished Service Order by Field Marshal Montgomery. The citation for the award stated that during the action from September 20 to 25, his position was overrun three times by superior forces of enemy tanks and infantry. Despite…
…the side of tanks and aircraft. Submarines left port with several months’ advance supply of strip, which was doled out to them in a daily ration. Christabel Leighton-Porter liked to believe that the character’s popularity was due to her healthy, girl-next-door appeal, but in truth Jane’s admirers (as ever with…