72 results found for: Ceylon (Raid)
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…Americans. After honing his skills, he took part in major raids against industrial heartlands in Germany and occupied France and attacks on V1 and V2 launch sites and the V3 ‘Vengeance’ guns in Northern France using bunker-busting ‘Tallboy’ bombs. In one raid on a factory in Limoges, Leonard insisted on…
…village of Kulala during a raid by ‘A’ Flight, No. 60 Squadron RAF. © IWM HU 91196 T E Lawrence [‘Lawrence of Arabia’, who had changed his name to ‘Aircraftman T E Shaw’ at this point in his life] on the aerodrome at Miranshah Fort in Waziristan, India (on the…
…raid to bomb pontoon bridges at Sedan, 41 Battles from a force of 70 failed to return. On one occasion Max dived on a group of enemy tanks in a valley and found that the guns were shooting down on him. His aircraft was hit and unable to climb. Although…
…‘Johnny’ D FROST on BRUNEVAL RAID (Operation Biting), the PARAS’ first Battle Honour, to dismantle & retrieve this German radar. Representing GROUND RADAR #298 John W COX Captain John W COX USAAF B-29 SUPERFORTRESS Airplane Cdr for US MARINES taking TINIAN & SAIPAN + TOKYO B-29 RAIDS, crew Plt C…
…NEW ZEALAND and COMMONWEALTH contribution to the ROYAL NAVY, here a “Hostilities Only” pilot on CORSAIRS, who joined the BRITISH PACIFIC FLEET after converting on to CORSAIRS in CEYLON, firstly in 1830 SOUADRON. John particularly remembered a strike against an island radar base off FORMOSA and how useful the mix…
Alan Pollock’s Rough Notes: A work in progress – the fuller biographies will emerge 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. RN AVIATION, HMS ILLUSTRIOUS, TARANTO RAID 11Nov4O,…
Alan Pollock’s Rough Notes: A work in progress – the fuller biographies will emerge 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. PATHFINDER & OC 97, AUGSBURG RAID; +…
…“learn how to fly them on the way to the target”. The P-51 Mustang was originally produced for the Royal Airforce by an American company, but was quickly adopted the USAAF. In March 1944 Blakeslee led the first Mustangs over Berlin, escorting a daylight-bombing raid. In just four months his…
Alan Pollock’s Rough Notes: A work in progress – the fuller biographies will emerge 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. WOMEN’S WAR WORK; AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS WARDENS,…
…know when we’ve done more justice in writing up our extraordinary signatories. AIR MINISTRY & WAR WIDOW. In memory of her husband, MOSQUITO observer Flying Officer Fergus Murray DFC (23 & 464 Sqns) & her brother, RAAF pilot Flying Officer Ronald G DAWSON [KIA 21Mar45] on COPENHAGEN GESTAPO HQ RAID….
…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. Sole miraculous survivor when he fell without a parachute in entire shot away tail section after the MAILLY RAID. For: RAF LANCASTER REAR GUNNERS & CREWS….
…MA CEng FICE CORPS of ROYAL ENGINEERS: served in 1 Section 23 FIELD COMPANY R.E., in 1 TROOP 6 COMMANDO, and took part in the early, successful COMBINED OPERATIONS RAID on VAAGSO & Maaloy in NORWAY 27 Dec 1941 (after Blenheims bombed the nearby German airfield at Herdla) wrecking oil…
…page) and we’ll let you know when we’ve done more justice in writing up our extraordinary signatories. RAF, flew and parachuted with 43 and Major General John ‘Johnny’ D FROST on BRUNEVAL RAID (Operation Biting), the PARAS’ first Battle Honour, to dismantle & retrieve this German radar. Representing GROUND RADAR…
…At 23, he became a wing commander. In the New Year of 1943, following a brief spell commanding No 89 Squadron in the Western Desert, flying Beaufighters, he was posted to Ceylon. He was then promoted group captain and went to the Arakan front in Burma as air adviser to…
…COMMANDER FLYING i/c OPERATIONAL TRAINING in SOUTH AFRICA, so useful + CEYLON for many NAVAL FIGHTER PILOTS destined for the PACIFIC FLEET, who were to fight so gallantly from our AIRCRAFT CARRIERS PACIFIC FINALE To quote another FAA signatory about 1945: “84,000 officers and men of the Fleet Air Arm…
…Commander for the B-29 SUPERFORTRESS Bombing RAIDS on TOKYO and Japan from TINIAN and his fellow crew members Chester Marshall, pilot, Jim O’Donnel, navigator, Herbert Feldman, bombardier, and John Huckins, flight engineer, who in turn pay great tribute to the US Marines and their epic struggle to take Saipan and…
…aircraft at TAMET & Bill FRASER’S success against 37 CR42s on his return to AGEDABIA, deep behind the lines, often using synchronised bombing raids as cover; also on the audacious, abortive BENGHAZI RAID with the David STIRLING & Fitzroy MACLEAN party May42 & escaped the Germans (after being woken looking…
…over 40 and at times 50 in a week became achieved targets in an intensive 14 months. About 30 Lancasters flew over 100 operational raid sorties, two nearly 140, and, at overload with the ‘Grand Slam’ 22,0001b Earthquake Bielefeld Viaduct bomb, it was 33,000lb above its empty 37,0001b weight. Dougie,…
…was surprised by the Japanese invasion in the winter of 1941/42. Off his own bat he dressed his staff and pupils in Australian bush hats and mounted a raid by river craft behind the Japanese lines, intended to lead them to think that the Australian army was already present in…
…help replace losses before being transferred to 603 Squadron where he scored his first kill – an Me109 over Dungeness – less than two weeks later. This was quickly followed by a shared He111 and a pair of Fiat CR.42s on the 23rd of November during a rare raid on…
…occasional probing raid over Bristol. However, as RAF losses rose 92 were diverted to combat increasingly often. On the 18th of August Bob was shot down for the first time, baling out over Kent. A week later his Spitfire was seriously damaged in combat against a Do17 over the English…
…and shared in the destruction of a second. Later in the day he destroyed two Bf 109s escorting a bomber force south-east of London. The Luftwaffe mounted one more major raid during September. On the 27th, in the Redhill area, Neil shot down a Messerschmitt Bf 110 and probably a…
“Gillam promptly shot it down. It was the fastest air victory of the war, and probably of all time” Fastest Victory by Robert Taylor Taking his Hurricane off from Speke, a raiding JU88 crossed the airfield in front of Denys Gillam, who promptly shot it down. It was the fastest…
…with Braham, Gregory had a nasty experience when he and his pilot were, as he noted in his logbook, “scrambled to intercept Huns raiding Liverpool”. They were about to shoot down a Do 17 when their Beaufighter was hit in the starboard wing by “friendly” anti-aircraft fire. Having baled out…