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…and remembering the many Allied airmen and others they saved & returned by aircraft or submarine; also ALL the LOYAL OCCUPIED NATIVE PEOPLES and PACIFIC ISLANDERS and highlighting the FIJIAN troops & Commandos, who fought in the SOLOMONS, GUADALCANAL, NEW GEORGIA & VELLA LAVELLA, such as the outstanding gallantry &…
…was born on October 13 1918 at Dunsfold, Surrey. He was an automobile engineer when he volunteered for the RAF in February 1940. Initially he trained as an aircraft engineer, but in August 1942 he volunteered for the new aircrew trade of flight engineer. With a few hours’ flying time,…
…story of FEPOWs who “were prisoners on the Thai/Burma railway, the Sumatra railway, the Sandakan Death Marches, in copper mines in Formosa, steel factories in Japan, building roads in Burma, air strips on Ambon, Haruka, Java, Rabaul, New Guinea and the Solomons. Also, thousands died battened down in holds on…
…& briefing CHURCHILL. #28 Ferdinand WEST Air Commodore Ferdinand ‘Freddie’ WEST VC CBE MC Recipient of the Victoria Cross. RFC & RAF, Captain Royal Munster Volunteers, 3 and 8 Sqns, last Air action, 17 Sqn, OC 4 Sqn WW1 VC Sqn, CO Farnborough, in WW2 Odiham & Air Attaché Berne…
…VC (1917-1945) by Frank Thatcher; Royal Air Force Museum Just hours later, and three score miles away, Winston Churchill left RAF Uxbridge, where he’d been visiting the No 11 Group Operations Room, to monitor The Battle of Britain. No 11 Fighter Group’s Operations Room, Uxbridge by Charles Ernest Cundall (1943)…
…ITALIAN ARMY, he with 38th GARIBALDI BRIGADE near PIACENZA, 23May44 1st municipality occupied, wife’s family in RESISTANCE For: 200.000 enrolled PARTISANS with ALLIES #177 Irmina ROEFLER Mrs Irmina ROEFLER (née RUNO) 1944 teenager POLISH HOME ARMY COURIER 80 for the,000 heroic comrades in doomed WARSAW UPRISING by Stalin’s duplicity1Aug-30ct44; 18,000…
…The George “Tommy” Atkins (#3) The Harold Bird-Wilson (#32) The Harry Broadhurst (#22) The John “Cat’s Eyes” Cunningham (#50) The Lettice Curtis (#77) [SOLD] Miss Lettice Curtis boarding a Spitfire in a colourised photograph released to mark the 100th Anniversary of the Royal Air Force. Sold to buyers who live…
…feet, many hands, and many intelligences” Aristotle, A Treatise on Government, Book III, Chapter XI This website was conceived, built, designed, and populated (up to a point; we’ve barely scratched the surface) in thirty-three (33) days. Only the combined operations, far beyond the call of duty, of the ‘Welsh wizard’…