45 results found for: Normandy
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…Air Staff, Marshal of the RAF Sir Charles Portal, sitting in the cockpit of Broadhurst’s Fiesler Storch at B11/Longues, Normandy, during a visit by the Secretary of State for Air and the CAS to 83 Group Headquarters and airfields. Broadhurst acquired the captured Storch, which he flew as his personal…
…morning in 1944 when she first appeared nude, with inspiring the 36th Division to advance six miles through Normandy in a single day. “Jane” had first begun in 1932 as “Jane’s Journal – The Diary of a Society Girl”, a pocket cartoon drawn by Norman Pett, who used his wife…
…he chased in a dogfight through the skies over Normandy. He spent the weeks after D-Day flying two, or even three, sorties a day before being appointed to command 880 Naval Air Squadron; this was based in Orkney as part of 30 Naval Air Wing, which embarked in the fleet…
…in support of the invasion of Normandy. Moving onto jets before the end of the war he received command in 1945 of No 1335, the RAF’s first jet conversion unit. This led in 1946 to command of the Central Flying Establishment’s air fighting development squadron. In 1948 he was posted…
…which simulated an amphibious landing in the Pas de Calais, and was timed to coincide with the actual D-Day landings in Normandy. Over the next few weeks Curtis attacked many of the large V-1 storage sites in northern France using the 12,000lb “Tallboy” bomb. On September 15 No 617 flew…
…was waiting to enforce the forthcoming landings in Normandy. In February 1944 Beamont returned to operational flying as leader of No 150, the first Tempest wing comprising Nos 3, 56 and 486 squadrons. Hawker Tempest gun camera On June 8, two days after D-Day, he shot down an Me 109…
…bombarding ORAN, she came under fire &, thanks to AURORA, dodged another torpedo; survived SICILY, ITALY and NORMANDY INVASIONS & the CAEN BOMBARDMENTS. A BISMARCK Historical Note. 19 Battleships and Cruisers, 2 Aircraft Carriers, 21 Destroyers and more than 50 Coastal Command Aircraft were involved to find and sink BISMARCK…
…REPAIR and SALVAGE UNIT and on to NORMANDY on D+8 and staying with this busy and very mobile unit, sharing work with some Canadians in the team too, ranging widely and often well forward to repair and recover aircraft of all types, finishing up at LUBECK. He would witness early…
…Cpl he fought in NORMANDY via SWORD BEACHHEAD on D-DAY at 0800hrs, landing with four 3″ mortar bombs each on front and a 90lb Bergen rucksack up the beach behind DD Tanks on the extreme left hand flank then unbadged but his Black Watch red hackle in his green beret…
…ITALY (US DFC). Posted back to Britain, he was Wg Ldr of 20 WING TYPHOONS in the lead up to Normandy invasion and CFI at Milfield Fighter Leaders School. After selection for the US Staff School at Fort Leavenworth with Peter Brothers, Billy served at SHAEF HQ for the final…
…Maritime Commission’s 5,777 WW2 cargo ships produced; for the PACIFIC campaigns & lessons learned ahead of and for the D-DAY NORMANDY INVASION (CUSTER’s first delivery was Royal Engineers) & the other ALLIED ARMADAS, here to supply the UTAH BEACHHEAD & others with those solid LOGISTIC support shafts for the forward…
…support the Normandy invasion. Comprising 29 squadrons, mainly of Spitfires, Typhoons and Mustangs, the group was associated mainly with the First Canadian Army during the 1944/5 campaigns and Rosier – now a Group Captain – worked in the Group Control Centre, moving forward regularly as the armies advanced, and remained…
…from the three artillery regiments of 5 Army Group Royal Artillery. He undertook the squadron’s first flight recalling that “it all looked completely peaceful.” Soon after arriving in Normandy, two replacement aircraft were required and Neilson and another pilot flew to Britain to collect them. After a major shopping trip…
…landing 0830hrs D-DAY at OUISTREHAM on NORMANDY INVASION’s left flank at SWORD BEACH “S:’; wounded during the war, he signs for all COMBINED OPERATIONS & the Sth-& all DESTROYER FLOTILLAS; post-war he was active again (OBE Near East Operations for SUEZ 1956) and his last two naval appointments were as…
…& ADVANCED DRESSING STATION (with 4 CANADIAN DIV & DEVON & DORSET REGT SW of CATANIA) & at “instep” of ITALY at LAGONEGRO. Later he was with 163 FIELD AMBULANCE in. NORMANDY & NW EUROPE, also ARNHEM, where, as a Lt Col CO of 163 FIELD AMBULANCE directly under XXX…
…MULBERRY HARBOURS project, allowing this “ENGINEERING MIRACLE” to provide that necessary STRATEGIC SURPRISE for the NORMANDY INVASION; 6,500 vehicles & 40,000 tons of stores would be landed a week; this project started with one of the war is famous, succinct official letters, from Prime Minister Winston CHURCHILL at 10 Downing…
…autobiography ‘Nine Lives‘… Daniel Rarity’s excellent video “Kiwi Combat Heroes Part One: Alan C Deere”, with computer recreations of some major fighting Daniel Rarity colourisation Alan and NZ Ambassador Alan Deere & his Spitfire Kiwi 1! One of Alan’s Luftwaffe foes Portrait of Alan Deere Kiwin 1 downed in Normandy…
…SICILY, ITALY, NORMANDY, Caen #308 Thomas A SUTTON Lieutenant Thomas A SUTTON RNVR Battleship HMS HOWE Gunnery seaman spotter, comm’d COMBINED OPS age 23 i/c 1st LANDING CRAFT TANK 223, NORMANDY Invasion GOLD BEACH & WALCHEREN #302 James Elms SWETT Colonel James Elms SWETT DFC (2) Purple Heart AM (5)…
…Lacey #7; American ‘triple ace’ Robin Olds #97; the leader of the glider-borne Normandy Landings assault on Pegasus Bridge, The Longest Day’s John Howard #91; the ‘widely speculated’ James Bond inspiration Fitzroy MacLean #116; and intelligence officer, SOE, and SAS historian, MRD Foot #140. Liberation and Battle of France: Artillery…
…RAF from pre-war North West Frontier s to BLENHEIMS in Desert War, SIEGE of No.4 FTS HABBANIYA, DOWN AMPNEY Wing Commander Flying for HORSAS and DAKOTAS in NORMANDY INVASION #36 WGG DUNCAN SMITH Group Captain WGG DUNCAN SMITH DSO* DFC** (17-19 e/a) NORTH WEALD Wg Ldr + NORWEGIAN SPITFIRES, Wing…
…ARMY campaign, BATTLE for CAEN, etc. BBC BROADCASTING WAR REPORTING, DIEPPE RAID, N.AFRICA ,SICILY, ITALY to SALERNO, NORMANDY to US/SOVIET ELBE meeting & BERLIN #153 Douglas R GODFREY Mr Douglas R GODFREY (father Metro Vickers engineer & mother a WWI NURSE & WW2 WVS), for A.V.ROE WOODFORD’s 1st 30, ROY…