38 results found for: Murmansk (Run)
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…kitchen and up on to our roof, but soldiers with guns were already blocking the stairs.” They had finally come for her – as she always knew they would. For the best part of a year, Nadine had been hiding Allied airmen on the run behind enemy lines and secretly…
‘Night fighter ace with an almost uncanny knack in locating the target and attacking it on the first run in’ ‘Air Vice-Marshal Edward Crew, who died on Sunday aged 84, was an ace night fighter pilot and destroyer of V-1 flying bombs; after notching up at least 13 kills, he…
…Burma in force. He got no thanks in the short run – indeed he was reprimanded for damaging the property of the Burmah Oil Company without permission. He discovered in the long run that he had indeed done a little to hold up the Japanese advance. His casualties were light…
…the Russians from the Arctic port of Murmansk. He was still only 19 when he joined No 1 Squadron at RAF Northolt in July 1940, during the opening phase of the Battle of Britain. Flying a Hurricane fighter, he shot down a Messerschmitt Bf 109 on August 15. The following…
…the 12,000lb Tallboy bomb, and it was decided that it was the most likely weapon to put Tirpitz out of action. On the night of September 11 Tait led a force of 37 Lancasters to the Russian airfield at Yagodnik, near Murmansk. During the first night, asleep in rudimentary bedding,…
…lady living there was too frightened to give him shelter. With options running out Jack made his way back Nowogrodek and sneaked into the camp on a horse-drawn cart. There he found that his toes had become black with frost bite so a dentist amputated his toes with a scalpel….
‘When asked what he had missed most whilst on the run for eight months, he responded without hesitation “my pyjamas”. From that moment, he always wore them under his uniform when flying on operations.’ “Air Chief Marshal Sir Lewis Hodges, who died on January 4 2007 aged 88, was one…
…the night of February 23 1944, during the Luftwaffe’s Operation Steinbeck, known as the “baby blitz”, a series of lightning hit-and-run bombing attacks on southern England. Flying a Mosquito of No 85 Squadron, Skelton gained a contact on his radar set near Beachy Head and directed Burbridge behind an enemy…
…as the later ANTWERP PORT system, with its AMERICAN, British & Canadian run DOCKS, where he experienced the heavy V-1 bombardment and would see the arrival of President TRUMAN, his CRUISER “AUGUSTA” and the 30 vehicle cavalcade en route to the POTSDAM CONFERENCE. Ben CALDER signs for those vital PORTS…
…of the page) and we’ll let you know when we’ve done more justice in writing up our extraordinary signatories. Recipient of the Victoria Cross. Courageous 12 Aug 1940 attack in five HAMPDENS (2 shot down, 2 hit ahead, on attack run) on Dortmund Ems Aqueduct, became Harris’s BOMBER COMMAND exemplar….
…to an airfield near Murmansk to position for an attack against the German battleship Tirpitz, which was sheltering in a fjord in the north of Norway. The attack was thwarted by the ship’s smoke screen. Two months later, when the ship (labelled “The Beast” by Churchill) had moved further south,…
…remembers FIVE different convoys, which had FIVE SHIP losses & one with EIGHT – & the NAVAL ARMED GUARD is now one of the least remembered aspects of WW2) within the UNITED STATES MERCHANT MARINE, for 13 months in SS Thomas SUMTERr including ARCTIC CONVOYS to MURMANSK with AMMUNITION &…
…machine guns with Pom-poms and Oerlikons added; after a tremendous fighting, damage and survival record as PENELOPE of the MALTA CONVOY RUN, with 8 battle honours and sharing the sinking of 23 enemy vessels (2 Italian destroyers, 1 German armed trawler and 6 landing ships, plus 2 tankers, 13 merchant…
…was ingested by his engines. Barely off the runway, Cunningham touched down at some 130 mph. The jet shot across a road, colliding with a car and killing four passengers before halting in a field where it caught fire. Cunningham sustained two crushed vertebrae, but none of his passengers were…
…the Canadian Hospital & Casualty Evacuation’s importance beyond D-Day. Representing all the Nursing Services. She spoke of how important for morale were the close local links with the British people, particularly in the run up to the savage fighting on and beyond D-Day, when speedy Casualty Evacuation was another unsung…
…they bombed the hell out of it, which did not achieve anything except kill people. Even then I thought: Why? Why were they strafing people?” Malta: Fighters take off from Luca’s bombed runway by Leslie Cole (1943) © IWM Art.IWM ART LD 3554 Promoted to Flight Lieutenant of 1435 Squadron…
…of Arnhem and then spent six months on the run in enemy-occupied Holland. Cover of ‘A Bridge Too Far’ by Cornelius Ryan, which recounted the story of Operation Market Garden. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, Ryan documented his account of the 1944 battle with pictures and maps. He…
…John Lovey, a wholesale clothing and footwear business run by an uncle. As war loomed, he trained with the RAFVR, flying a Blackburn B.2 biplane trainer at the London Air Park. After the fall of France, 87 Squadron re-formed at Church Fenton, near Leeds. In July 1940, it moved to…
…IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205022180 This left Knight with the only remaining bomb. After two failed attempts, his third run was good and the weapon was dropped accurately. With Grayston applying full power, Knight hauled the Lancaster over the surrounding hills, allowing the rear gunner to have a perfect view as…
…my parachute and climbed awkwardly into the low cockpit. I noticed how small was my field of vision. Kilmartin swung himself on to a wing and started to run through the instruments. I was conscious of his voice, but heard nothing of what he said. I was to fly a…
…the Reich had made. ‘Flags flew, soldiers gathered to listen, as ordered, communally, and over the airwaves from the headquarters of Grossdeutscher Rundfunk, the state radio station, in Berlin’s Wilhelmstrasse sounded a fanfare of trumpets. They had not reckoned on Sismore, painstakingly plotting his course with a primitive tin-box calculator…
…how it was read in Sunnmørsposten on Wednesday 30 March, in the war year 1943. It was the German occupiers who were behind the search. The week before, the wanted men, or rather: the young men, had been on board a small rowing boat for four days, on the run…
…likely including the German Ace Hans-Joachim Marseille on the 23rd of September, and he was awarded his second DFC in October. Runway Perspective by Eric Ravilious © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/22477 On the 11rd of September he took command of 257 Squadron flying Hurricanes. It was an inauspicious start, as…
…sounded like. In a 1978 BBC interview, he recalled waking up in a hut by the runway as the pilots waited for the phone to ring. “You would have a cup of tea, some breakfast, you would go out to your aircraft, a couple of hundred yards, check the aircraft,…