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…WOMEN’S AUXILIARY AIR FORCE members during the war honoured with the Military Medal. 4’11” of courage: in BATTLE OF BRITAIN, 18Aug40, stayed at reporting post as secret POLING RADAR station bombed: “about 30 planes dropped about 90 bombs on us.” (The scene was replicated in ‘The Battle of Britain‘ film)…
Henry in a Hurricane ‘mad with rage’ to see France occupied, Lafont dramatically escaped Vichy-held Algeria for England – the last of the 13 French pilots in the Battle of Britain. Signed in memory of his friends Commandant René MOUCHOTTE, Bernard DUPÉRIER, and some 300 French pilots killed in the…
…and German Luftwaffe. Dodd’s scene conveys the simultaneous proximity and distance of the Battle of Britain; aerial combat is evident in the sky but life goes on below. History The RAF pilots who fought during the Battle of Britain were supported by thousands of servicemen and women on the ground….
…1998. His portrait was drawn by Cuthbert Orde in January 1941 (below).” Portrait of JI Kilmartin by Cuthbert Orde (January, 1941) Courtesy of wonderful The Battle of Britain London Monument’s ‘The Airmen’s Stories’ _________ RCAF No. 403 Squadron (via the ‘RCAF No. 403 Squadron’ site) Three ‘They Were There’ signatories…
…the UN Protection Force in Bosnia.” (Credit: The Battle of Britain London Monument) Imperial War Museums’ Oral History: Irving Smith “New Zealand officer served as pilot with and commanded 151 Sqdn, No 12 Group, Fighter Command, RAF in GB, 7/1940-3/1943 including Battle of Britain, 7/1940-10/1940; served as staff officer with…
…the Battle of Britain he flew occasional operational sorties with No. 1 Squadron, thus qualifying for the Battle of Britain clasp. On 23rd December 1940 Broadhurst took command of RAF Hornchurch and apart from a few weeks in October/November 1941 he held this position until May 1942. On 25th February…
…to a hospital, where he was informed by doctors that he would never fly again. After spending most of the summer under treatment he proved them wrong and was back in the air in time for the tail-end of the Battle of Britain. He also escaped serious disfigurement, although he…
Obituary courtesy of and published by the Telegraph. David (left) as best man to his 152 Squadron colleague P/O DH Fox-Male. Battle of Britain fighter pilot who won a DFC and Bar in the space of five days GROUP CAPTAIN DENNIS “HURRICANE” DAVID, who has died aged 82, was awarded…
…French hospital he returned to England to be reunited with the survivors of his squadron. He admitted that the situation on the French front was “total chaos”. Drake spent much of the Battle of Britain training fighter pilots but, after badgering old friends, he was allowed to join No 213…
“some sort of tube out of which a rocket could be squirted” Aeroplane Hat at Aero Garden Party on Drome. A fashionably dressed crowd saw some of Britain’s latest war planes side by side with fast civil liners and pioneer machines at the Royal Aeronautical Society’s garden party on the…
…he returned to Britain, where he lived for the rest of his life.” (Michael J Hawkins, Bratislava) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-45516556#:~:text=Winston%20Churchill%20described%20the%20Battle,they%20weren’t%20all%20British. THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN 1940. Hurricane pilots of No. 310 (Czechoslovak) Squadron at Duxford, 7 September 1940. In the background is Hawker Hurricane Mk I P3143 ‘NN-D’. Copyright: © IWM CH 1299…
“Gregory’s superb radar skills helped Braham to destroy 29 German aircraft in the night skies over Britain and occupied Europe – a tally which was among the highest of any wartime RAF fighter pilot, flying by day or night.” Group Captain John ‘Bob’ Braham (right) with his long-serving radio and…
‘They learned that you don’t mess with West Indians’ 16,000 volunteers came from the Caribbean in the Second World War, “bringing the fight to the enemy”. (See this sequence, from 53m45s, on an Antiques Roadshow Special Edition about ‘The Battle of Britain’ from Biggin Hill, with Mark Smith of Barbed…
Model for the morale-boosting ‘Jane’ cartoon: ‘worth at least two divisions’ “Britain’s Secret Weapon” (Winston Churchill) “CHRISTABEL LEIGHTON-PORTER was the model for the Daily Mirror’s wartime strip cartoon “Jane”; the character’s lightly-clad adventures with the Security Service were credited with maintaining the morale of the Forces and even, on the…
…of State for Air. “Balfour made his mark on the aviation industry in Britain, both military and civilian, in a career that stretched from the biplanes of Word War One to the establishment of Heathrow Airport, which was to become one of the great airports of the world, carrying over…
…CRT presentation screen. At the beginning of September 1940, at a time when Great Britain faced a Nazi invasion, the Tizard Mission, composed of eminent British scientists, arrived in America. The Mission carried the latest British researches on jet engines, the uranium (atomic) bomb, predictors, proximity fuses, rockets, radar, and…
…Robert Taylor, signed by Ian MacLennan among several others, showing Mk V Spitfires duelling with ME109s over a besieged Malta. MacLennan was a sergeant pilot flying Spitfires with No 401 (RCAF) Squadron in Britain when he crashed an aircraft. At the subsequent reprimand, his flight commander, rather pointedly, commented that…
…first Squadron, and Battle of Britain Day was born. We are also releasing the first of a series of small service-focussed Editions, a special “Battle of Britain 80 Edition” of 12 originals, to honour, commemorate, and pay tribute on the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Britain Memorial Day, 15th…
…Eng, was born in Jarrow in March 1919 and his nearly seven years of RAF service demonstrates a fine example that there were many GROUNDCREW TECHNICIANS in forward areas, who would in actual fact be bombed and strafed many times in forward airfields and areas in both Britain and Europe….
…– and the planning of a network of early-warning coastal “Chain Home” stations which were to play a crucial role in the Battle of Britain. On September 29 1938, when war was thought to be imminent, Fennessy had driven through the night from Bawdsey to HQ Fighter Command at Bentley…
…After competing as a boxer at the Empire Games at Wembley in 1934, he returned home and applied to join the South African Air Force (SAAF). His application failed as he could not speak Afrikaans, so Hull returned to Britain and joined the RAF’s No. 43 Squadron (‘the Fighting Cocks’)….
…opening his account with a Dornier 17 bomber in May 1940, as France fell, Beamont remained with 87 squadron and fought throughout the Battle of Britain. On August 15 he shot down two Me 110 fighters over Lyme Regis. Battle of Britain by Paul Nash (1941) He recalled: “I was…
…able to return without papers, after a SWEDISH OFFICER’S Funeral Cortege provided cover for slipping back into Sweden & then back to Britain. Also for his important role working in the small 1940 CONTROL TEAM with R Adm Bertram RAMSAY and Captain TENNANT at DOVER CASTLE for Operation DYNAMO’s (DUNKIRK…
“Marshal of the RAF Sir John Grandy, who died on Friday aged 90, was the only Chief of the Air Staff to have commanded a fighter squadron throughout the Battle of Britain. But as Chief, he was fated to preside over some of the most difficult transitions of the post-war…