132 results found for: X-Craft Midget Submarines (Operations)
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…GB, 1944-1945: volunteering for midget submarines; posting to HMS Varbel; manning X-craft submarines; method of attack. Recollections of operations commanding HMS XE 3 during attack on Japanese heavy cruiser Takao in harbour at Singapore, Malaya, 31/7/1945; move to Australia; Leading Seaman James Magennis’ planting of limpet mines on cruiser; desperate…
…circles. At 0815 the leading waves of amtracks uncoiled and formed a line near their mother control craft. Five minutes later the pennants were hauled down and an almost unbroken 8-mile line of landing craft moved toward the beaches. Gunboats led the way in, firing rockets, mortars, and 40-mm. guns…
…down and killed within a few months. Johnson was credited with 34 individual victories over enemy aircraft, as well as seven shared victories, three shared probable, 10 damaged, three shared damaged and one destroyed on the ground. Johnson flew 700 operational sorties and engaged enemy aircraft on 57 occasions.[10] Included…
…Special Operations Executive in Australia and Burma; contact with General Wingate; involvement with Chindits; joining of Special Air Service; history of Special Air Service. Aspects of operations as officer with 22nd Special Air Service in GB and North West Europe, 1944-1945: organisation of Special Air Service; problems with French Special…
…of operations as pilot with 128 Sqdn, RAF in Sierra Leone, 10/1941-3/1942: posting to unit; operating from West Africa; influence of Air Vice Marshal Keith Park on his leaving unit; shooting down of Vichy French aircraft, 12/1941. Period as pilot with 260 Sqdn in Middle East, 4/1942-5/1942: flight to join…
…being refused permission to be towed back to England, until the craft eventually broke free in the big storm of 19-22 June. With sides stove in after engine-less collisions with other beached craft, LCT (American) 2233 became useless and more craft damaged after not being towed clear as Tom had…
…Crusader, 11/1941-12/1941; rescue of Special Air Service group. REEL 2: Continues: Major David Stirling’s decision to work with Long Range Desert Group; types of operations undertaken; the road watch; threat from German Air Force; technique for dispersal if attacked by aircraft; attitude of desert Arabs to Long Range Desert Group;…
…(as some of his contemporaries knew him) returned to this country in 1943 and took command of a succession of bases, including the fighter station at Northolt, where he formed a great admiration for his Polish aircrews. He ended the war back on the Continent as Group Captain (Operations) of…
…Flying moonlit operations for the Special Operations Executive (SOE) Hodges landed his single-engine Lysander or the larger Hudson aircraft in remote French fields to deliver and pick up agents. He picked up two future Presidents of the Republic (Auriol and Mitterrand), bringing them to England for meetings with General de…
…was appointed to RAF Waddington as the base operations officer. Although the post did not require him to fly on operations, in the first six weeks he flew nine with the junior crews of two Australian Lancaster squadrons. In May he returned to operations and was appointed a master bomber…
…down over English Channel, 9/1941. Aspects of operations commanding Typhoon Wing, No 12 Group, Fighter Command, RAF in GB, 3/1942-10/1942: formation of wing at RAF Duxford, 3/1944; operations during Dieppe Raid, 19/8/1942; character of Hawker Typhoon. Aspects of operations commanding No 146 Wing, 2nd Tactical Air Force, RAF in GB…
…#197). He was also once scrambled after a lone German aircraft was spotted near Scotland – he didn’t find it, but it was later identified as the plane Rudolph Hess, Hitler’s Deputy, flew to Scotland. Part of the remains of the Messerschmitt BF-110 aircraft which Rudolph Hess flew to Britain…
…painting, numerous barrage balloons are shown floating above the trees. Operated by RAF Balloon Command, barrage balloons were used to protect cities from air attack. They forced German aircraft to operate at higher altitudes, reducing the accuracy of their bombing and bringing them within range of anti-aircraft guns.” He quickly…
…fighter escort; approach path; description of attack and importance of precise timing; escorting wounded section leader’s aircraft back to GB; damage to his aircraft and squadron aircraft; Group Captain Percy Pickard’s role in operation; his inspection of the damage to prison walls on post-war visit to Amiens, France, 1948. REEL…
…sweeping the approaches of Port Augusta, Catania, Messina, Reggio di Calabria, Taranto (where so much of the Italian Navy ships were, including their pioneer midget submarines), Bari (going into that port just after the explosion when an American ammunition ship with 500 and 1,000lb aircraft bombs exploded catastrophically, killing over…
…operations staff of Fighter Command’s No 11 Group and also at Fighter Command headquarters. After his exploits flying into France, he became an SOE air operations manager organising drops and agent landings in Western Europe and Scandinavia. In the autumn of 1944 Verity supervised clandestine air operations in South East…
…period for the RAF. These included withdrawal from bases east of Suez; the cancellation of major aircraft projects; and the dismantling of the strategic nuclear bomber force which he had done so much to nurture. (The cut had been made so that the Navy’s Polaris submarines could take over Britain’s…
…capture and escape to GB, 8/1941-12/1941. Aspects of operations commanding 165 Sqdn, No 11 Group, Fighter Command, RAF in GB, 4/1942-8/1942: formation of squadron at RAF Ayr, 4/1942; role escorting Soviet Foreign Minister Vycheslav Molotov’s aircraft on his visit to GB, 5/1942; how his association with agent/traitor Harold Coles resulted…
…Line, near to France’s frontier with Germany. Operations in France Operations in France In October 1939, the squadron moved to Vassincourt, where it became a part of the AASF, ready for operations over the front line. This force included ten squadrons of Fairey Battle light bombers, together with the Hurricanes…
…French administration, however, the paperwork was lost and he never received the medal. By the middle of June No 103 had lost 18 aircraft and nine crews, and Max was lucky to survive when a German fighter strafed the airfield as he was standing on the wing refuelling his aircraft.…
…quarter of the 39 pilots, and one third of the aircraft, were out of action. With a fellow squadron leader, Dudgeon both flew and personally controlled the bombing operations for five successive days as the airfield came under fire from Iraqi guns. By the end, the survivors could barely stand…
…505 ESCORTS, plus 211 SUBMARINES and additionally 2,751 Liberty ships were constructed between 1941 and 1945 in 16 US Shipyards, 1,921 small US Navy Patrol craft (submarine chasers, torpedo boats and crash boats), 882 Minesweepers, 44,912 Landing Craft, 617 Small Auxiliaries, and there were 329 US Coast Guard Vessels and…
…to two-engine Bristol Beaufighters, that the pair acquired a more suitable aircraft and sufficient expertise to dispatch five enemy bombers within a period of 10 weeks. (Bristol Beaufighter Mk.IC, 1943, now on display at the National Museum of the United States Air Force) This early run of success was speedily…
…before thinking up a reason for not taking me on,” she wrote. Eventually, she was offered a job with the Ministry of Civil Aviation as an Operations Officer before applying to be a test pilot at the Aircraft and Armament Experimental Establishment at Boscombe Down. ‘After her flight test, she…