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…battalion HQ, among which new duties under his commander and S-3 leader, Captain John Kiley from New York, would be the sand table modelling for operations. His next major operation with the 101st would begin on September 17th, 1944. Operation MARKET GARDEN, it would be the largest airborne invasion of…
A wonderful colourisation of this iconic shot by (and copyright of) Marina Amaral. [A Work in Progress] 15 September, 2020 This is a work in progress — and the fuller biographies will emerge in due course: please sign up to the Newsletter (bottom of the page) and we’ll let you…
…Rosyth including the Bismarck alert, Sam would join HMS REDOUBT in September 1942 after a further Torpedo course in Roedean School (HMS VERNON) and the new unused St Dunstan’s building. Redoubt was a brand-new R-class destroyer commissioning at John Brown’s Clyde shipyard. Sam remembers the personal handling of the 1,000…
…thought he knew as much about Rastafarian culture as the people of Brixton. In his report, he concluded that racial discrimination had been one of the main factors behind the riots, and he stuck his neck out by proposing positive discrimination in favour of blacks – a proposal described as…
…(as some of his contemporaries knew him) returned to this country in 1943 and took command of a succession of bases, including the fighter station at Northolt, where he formed a great admiration for his Polish aircrews. He ended the war back on the Continent as Group Captain (Operations) of…
…headquarters of the recently formed 216 Group a week late, having taken unofficial leave in May 1941 to marry Phyl McFarlane, the daughter of his former commanding officer. His new role was to establish the ferry and transport organisation, and he was an ideal choice. Following the closure of the…
…Lt Gick joined his first squadron, No 822, flying Swordfish aircraft from the carrier Furious. The following year he transferred to 810 Squadron in Courageous, and on the outbreak of war his squadron moved to the new carrier Ark Royal, engaged in anti-submarine operations with the Home Fleet. Ark Royal…
…Wear after his departure in 1983, Nissan was recruiting for its new factory nearby. Robert Atkinson was born at Tynemouth on March 7 1916, the son of a civil engineer. His elder brother was the theologian Prof James Atkinson, who, Robert reckoned, saved him from drowning off the Tynemouth coast…
…Later Wing Leader at HORNCHURCH & BIGGIN HILL, the Central Gunnery School & No.145 (FRENCH) WING, author of Nine Lives. Representing NEW ZEALAND #89 William D DISBREY Air Vice-Marshal William D DISBREY CB CBE AFC CEng F1MechE pre-war 3 Squadron pilot & ENGINEERING SPECIALIST. Representing the vitally important GROUND TECHNICIAN…
…ENGINES for ROYAL AIR FORCE GROUNDCREW here emphasises all the “RATS of TOBRUK”, many from Australia (where in the early 1990s nearly 5,000 were still members), who endured the 200 DAY SIEGE before striking out and joining up with NEW ZEALANDERS of EIGHTH ARMY at El Duda & El Adem…
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. Flt Lt Ted SLY DFC represents the…
…365-day ATLANTIC LIFELINE, ‘CONVOY HX84′, HMS JERVIS BAY & Captain E.S. Fogarty FEGEN VC RN 5Nov40 saving 33 of convoy’s ships #242 John W MAYBANK Lt John W MAYBANK RNZNVR New Zealand officer trained as pilot with Fleet Air Arm in GB & Canada. Witnessed a KAMIKAZE attack (“I had…
…after the Dams raid, a low-level attack by eight Lancasters on the Dortmund-Ems Canal. The new CO was shot down and several aircraft were badly damaged. Low cloud thwarted those who got through, and Martin and his crew made 13 attempted attacks before releasing their bomb; the canal, however, remained…
…Newhaven after returning from the raid. Further training took place on the Isle of Arran. Bryan was an experienced rock climber and, when his unit was paired with No 11 (Scottish) Commando, he transferred to that unit and passed on his skills. One of his companions in the house in…
…to Flt Cdr, witnessing American 133 and 403’s tragic too early descent into a sucker hole over Brittany not Cornwall – a DFC after 100 operational sorties followed in January [17 friends piled into a single taxi while celebrating]. After new Zealanders Colin Gray DFC’s and Bill Crawford-Compton DFC*’s tenures,…
…an Instructor at CFS, Upavon. Lewis decided against a career in the new RAF and was demobilised in 1919. He was 21. He was never to fly a plane again. Lewis’s qualities as both a pilot and a leader are possibly best exemplified by the fact that he never lost…
…peace (The Guardian) “Glimpse” (2014) from the Atomic Landscapes Series by Susanna Stromborg. “These are hand made collages made from an image of Hiroshima in the public domain printed on newsprint. They are very beautiful and delicate, being on newsprint: the intention was to make them on a material that…
…airmanship and tenacious fighting spirit which enabled First Lieutenant Swett to destroy eight enemy bombers in a single flight were in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service.” He was shot down once again near the island of New Georgia. Fortunately, he was spotted and rescued…
…As Jack lay recovering, those remaining in the camp began digging a new tunnel through which to escape. Once the tunnel was completed Jack was one of the last to get out before the tunnel was discovered, but this time he did manage to meet with the partisans and joined…
…“The men did not allow women to fly some new types right away,” wrote another ATA flyer, Diana Barnato Walker. “There was a lot of humming and hawing before Lettice Curtis, a tall, blue-eyed blond girl, an excellent pilot … was allowed to ferry a Typhoon on 24 June 1942.”…
…as a 16yr old boy Merchant Marine seaman on the “Capetown Castle” Troopship in 1941, taking troops to Singapore and India and bringing New Zealanders and Canadians over to Liverpool – trying for the Irish Guards without vacancies in Leeds, he joined the West Yorkshire (70th = Boys Battalion) then…
…with 421 Flight, RAF, 10/1940-2/1941: role of flight to shadow German formations; reasons for being summoned to see Air Vice Marshal Keith Park; requesting Supermarine Spitfires; estimating numbers of German formations; opinion of Keith Park and his tactics; introduction of new tactics. REEL 5 Continues: tactics employed by flight; relations…
…the United States where, as a yacht surveyor, he specialised in fibreglass manufacture and forensic work for courts. He also wrote for Nautical Quarterly, and travelled worldwide to review new boats. In 1985 Fraser-Harris moved to England where he took up drawing, painting and relief carving. When he died on…
…taught him the value of calm and a cool head, and that lesson helped him to be selected as one of the first batch of pilots to be trained in flying a new fighter – the Spitfire – later that year. By the time war broke out Bob was a…