35 results found for: Greece (Resistance)
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…Spee’s supply ship, which entered Norwegian waters). The rescue, “The Navy’s here”, at 2230hr and rapid release back of British merchant marine prisoners into HM Warships took place on Friday night, 16Feb40. Geoffrey’s DSC was awarded for his part in the boarding and overcoming German resistance with relatively small forces….
…SPECIAL FORCES OPERATION deliveries 4 pick ups under GLENGYLE1s South African CAPTAIN PETRIE; then diverted to assist GREECE 4 CRETE (many soldiers, pleased to be picked up, were strafed by fighters 4 killed on return) in evacuating SUDA BAY 4 SPHAKIA, Jul 1941 LITANI RIVER in SYRIA, landing Col KEYES…
…regular visits to Greece, making many good friends there. Never forgetting the part played by the de Havilland Mosquito in wartime photographic reconnaissance, and of the debt owed to the Mosquito crews, Constance Babington Smith was a founder director of the Mosquito Memorial Appeal Fund – now the de Havilland…
…of the women’s section of the ATA. The idea of women flying planes had met with great resistance, best exemplified by the following quote: “The menace,” the editor of the Aeroplane, CG Grey, had written, “is the woman who thinks she ought to be flying a high-speed bomber when she…
…was eventually withdrawn from long-range bombing operations, and Max and his crews flew mining sorties and parachute drops to resistance groups. After converting to the Lancaster and flying a few more operations in support of the impending D-Day landings, his tour ended in May 1944, when he was awarded the…
…he had been trained in demolition & been with the Engineers. His wife’s ZUCCOLINI family also helped in the RESISTANCE, being formally thanked for SHELTERING escaped ALLIED PRISONERS and acting in support of US 5th & BRITISH 8th ARMIES ;as from other witnesses, it was the less urban, often poor,…
…thought of selling Jewish lives to the Germans for a sack of potatoes”. He rejected an accusation that the Bielski detachment was involved in a massacre of Polish anti-Nazi resistance fighters by pro-Soviet partisans at Naliboki forest in eastern Poland on May 8, 1943, claiming that the Bielskis were stationed…
…DEFENCE, action PALESTINE, TUNISIA, CRETE, 8th ARMY, N. African MARETH Line, WADIS AKARIT & ZIGZAU #47 John HACKETT Gen Sir John ‘Shan’ HACKETT GCB CBE DSO* MC MA BLitt LLD DL distinguished scholar and author, KRI HUSSAR for PARACHUTE REGT, DESERT, ITALY, ARNHEM & DUTCH RESISTANCE #272 John AL HAMILTON…
…Nos 76, 49, 161 & 357 for BOMBER & SPECIAL DUTY SQNS (OC after W/C Freddie PICKARD), the FRENCH RESISTANCE & SOE “set Europe ablaze” #191 Paul HOLDER Air Marshal Sir Paul HOLDER KBE CB DSO DFC On 218 SQN WELLINGTONS after 57, 108 & 84 SQNS, flew AOC 3…
…– in what he sometimes calls ‘slow time’ – over severaldecades. Building on a core of Battle of Britain legends and flying aces – including five of the seven British advisors to the 1969 film ‘Battle of Britain’ – he worked hard to find similar Army, Navy, Civilian and Resistance…
…HIROSHIMA & NAGASAKI B-29 atomic attacks, ending hostilities & saving POW & MILITARY LIVES. #190 Mary JOICE Mrs Mary JOICE (née BALMER) RAF Intelligence & Hackney engineer in BLITZ). WW2: Secretary to Chichester Bishop George Bell. Pre-war links to GERMAN CHRISTIAN RESISTANCE (c.f. No. 290 Dietrich Bethge, q.v.); BELL against…