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‘The fur was flying everywhere… Suddenly I was “bullet stitched” right across the cockpit.’ “From left, standing: P/Os HC Upton, AEA van den Hove d’Éstsenrijk (Belgium), and David Gorrie; seated, from left, P/Os Frank Carey (adjutant) [Signatory 27], F/L J.I. Kilmartin [Signatory 35], S/L George Lott [Signatory 11](who lost an…
…WW2 and approximately two million Kazakhs had been lost during Stalin’s collectivization and purges already even before Germany invaded. Adil speaks virtually a dozen languages, many related to Kazakh and thus feels close to many other of the ex-Soviet states. Because only one of his five relatives who went to…
…over Germany until the following April, when he was awarded the DFC. Lewis Macdonald Hodges (always known as Bob) was born on March 1 1918 at Richmond, Surrey, and educated at St Paul’s School. On hearing that he had been selected for the RAF College at Cranwell, the High Master…
…Subsequently he was stationed in Germany and, after joining the Guards Parachute Battalion, served in Palestine and Trans-Jordan before leaving the Army in the rank of Company Sergeant-Major. After the award of his VC, presented by General Alexander, Kenneally received thousands of letters from all over the world, and in…
…a man who had previously flown only single-engine aircraft. Barker arrived on the squadron in November 1944 after completing a one-hour flight to familiarise himself with the Lancaster; but he immediately endeared himself to his men by insisting on flying on the next operation over Germany with a junior crew….
…Forced Labour in Germany and a year in Oranienburg Concentration Camp, had been sent back home to die in May 1944, extremely thin and unable to walk, delivered in a barrow. “Boys such as Jan would often take coded messages in a schoolbook on the train to Eindhoven and return…
…Plans at 11 Group, he commanded 234 Sqn’s Mustangs on Bomber Escort operations, and became Wg Ldr 150 Mustang Wing in Feb45 and the Hunsdon Wing in Mar45, and later became a POW for a few days having baled out over Germany after destroying a FW190 NE of Berlin on…
…that brigade into eastern Holland and north-west Germany in the closing stages of the war. For those actions he was awarded a French and a Belgian Croix de Guerre. CHINDIT OPERATIONS IN BURMA © IWM MH 7868 …Though he never rose above brigadier anyone who served under him knew that…
…Southlanders”. They toured the UK’s variety circuit as well as travelling to Italy, Germany, France and Belgium. Their speciality was rhythm and blues, and they worked alongside the popular artists of the day – Shirley Bassey, David Frost, Joe Loss, Frankie Vaughn, Cliff Richard and Tommy Steele to name but…
…Luftwaffe threw a party for him before he was sent to Stalag Luft III to sit out the rest of the war…or so his captors presumably thought. ALLIED PRISONERS OF WAR IN GERMANY, 1939-1945 (HU 1605) Squadron Leaders Robert Stanford Tuck and Roger Bushell (Big X) in Stalag Luft III,…
…presented with it until the 1980s. “The Germans marched into Paris on the day he was due to collect it, so they had to put that on hold,” his daughter said. By the summer of 1940, France had surrendered to Germany, and Adolf Hitler had turned his attention to Britain,…
…1939-40, the squadron suddenly had to face overwhelming odds when Germany invaded the Low Countries and France. On May 10 1940, David wrote “war really starts” in his logbook. He flew six sorties that day, and recorded his first kill, a Dornier 17 bomber (Do 17) over the Maginot Line….
…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…
…commanded an operational training unit and introduced the Avro Canada CF100 all-weather fighter. After two years there he returned to command the all-weather development squadron at the Central Flying Establishment, with particular emphasis on trials of the Javelin. Later he commanded RAF Bruggen in Germany, before returning to the Far…
…England’s declaration of war with Germany. West travelled back to London, and enlisted as a Private, in the Royal Army Medical Corps (to his own dismay as he wanted immediate action in France). He then applied for transfer for several months before being accepted for a commission in the Royal…
…born Uncle John QSM in lst Bn wounded Mar16 & MSM, Uncle James Sgt 6th Bn KIA at FESTUBERT 4 Jun 1918 aged 21, Uncle Albert Pte shell-shocked, Uncle John WILSON served in Egypt KIA 1Decl7): front line in Aug44 for the BATTLES of HOLLAND, REICHSWALD, RHINE CROSSING & GERMANY….
…RAF Flying College he commanded the bomber squadron at the Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment at Boscombe Down, where the new jet bombers for the RAF were being tested. He later commanded a night fighter squadron in Germany before returning to the Air Ministry, where he looked after the careers…
…with the group in Germany until 1946 as part of the occupation forces. Alamein (screenshot from World War II in HD Colour) There followed the Staff College course and a year commanding the fighter station at Horsham St Faith before he was off to the United States to attend the…
…tears as he lucidly recalls the war. “Even then, I recall it was merciless – destroying cities that were not a menace to Germany. Malta was just being bombed. What for? I can see they should have taken it, being an important strategic country. We all know that. But, instead,…
…the RAF College Cranwell, graduating in 1936 as a pilot. He joined a bomber squadron but, due to an injury, did not fly his first operation with No 51 Squadron until April 1940 when he bombed Oslo Aerodrome in a Whitley. He attacked targets in Germany and flew on the…
…Chief of Staff of the German Army was seen as a potential President of Germany) and Col Graf Claus von STAUFFENBERG (who had lost his left eye and right arm in battle and from 1 Jul 1944 was Chief of Staff to the Chief of the German Army Reserve) and…
…the renowned German theologian Dietrich BONHOEFFER, was chosen to represent the opposition and GERMAN RESISTANCE MOVEMENTS against Nazism, which too often would be forgotten during and after the war. Post-war many Christians have been engaged in the process of re-examining the role of the Church in Germany during the Nazi…
…Forces and, in January 1944, he was seconded to “G” Squadron GPR. Mike Dauncey at RAF Fairford, during the Summer of 1944 After the war, he was posted to Athens as Military Assistant to the C-in-C Land Forces, Greece, and then joined a Parachute Regiment battalion in Germany. He commanded…
…war with Germany began to seem likely, the British Government increased their preparations for the coming conflagration. The Chief of MI6, Admiral Hugh Sinclair, ordered GC&CS to expand its staff numbers. Those to be recruited were to be professorial types, drawn from Oxford and Cambridge universities. However, as the cryptanalytic…