67 results found for: Normandy (Landings)
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…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…
…in the LIBERATION of North West EUROPE. His own role as a SAPPER was with the 553 FIELD COMPANY. ROYAL ENGINEERS (part of 130 BRIGADE, with its constituent 7th ROYAL HAMPSHIRES. 4th and 5th DORSETS and 112 Field Regiment ROYALARTILLERY) was mainly in MINE CLEARANCE at NORMANDY (24-26June toJul 1944)…
…Normandy Landings assault Operation Deadstick. OX & BUCKS Light Infantry, 5 months Cpl to RSM, then commissioned; D-DAY 6JUN44 with Company in towed glider to 40 yds from & took PEGASUS BRIDGE at 0016hrs #145 André H.A. HUÉ Major André H.A. HUÉ DSO Légion d’Honneur Croix de Guerre avec Palme…
…you know when we’ve done more justice in writing up our extraordinary signatories. ‘One of the most highly regarded soldiers of the Parachute Regiment and British Army’. For: TERRITORIALS, 6Bn HIGHLAND Lt Infy, 1st ARMY, 1PARA & PARA BDE Ops in North Africa TORCH 1942-3, the SICILY & NORMANDY Invasions…
…Army, she cared for the most severely wounded and dying soldiers who were evacuated from the invading beaches of Normandy to England in the summer of 1944. She later said that what made the biggest impression on her was the strong unity between the young Norwegian boys in exile. Pat…
…rapid decline of British influence in the MIDDLE EAST. Later Wg Cdr Dudgeon was Wg Cdr Flying at DOWN AMPNEY for the HORSAS and DAKOTAS flying off for D-DAY and the NORMANDY INVASION. His later service in the FAR EAST extended through to the 2TAF post-war Sabre and Hunter eras….
…of the war. Due to both skill and luck, in his own words, he survived nine crash landings and famously shot down a German plane that had just bombed Buckingham Palace. Lacey died in 1989 and his achievements have been honoured with a blue plaque on the land where his…
…as the Germans, regarded him as pro-communist. Meanwhile he was given the job of transcribing news gleaned from a secret wireless set, which included reports of the D-Day landings, the crossing of the Rhine, and approach of the Americans. He also wrote a novel, Yes, Farewell, and studied for (and…
…Johnny Gibson In 1943 he went with 15 Squadron to New Georgia as operations officer. Subsequently, he commanded and led the squadron, equipped with Corsair fighters. In the heavy fighting of the Bougainville Pacific landings, he destroyed a Japanese Zeke fighter on January 23 1944. After again returning to Europe,…
…including the destruction of three V1 flying bombs. Having flown in support of the D-Day landings, Burbridge and Skelton began operating over occupied France. On the night of June 14/15 they intercepted a Junkers 88, flown by the Luftwaffe Experten (ace) Major Wilhelm Herget, and shot the aircraft down –…
…before Christmas, 1945 after that period of two and a half years mostly afloat. Once much earlier his vessel had to be towed into Malta and there saw the tail end of the siege, before seeing Rodney and Nelson on their way to support landings. He would be involved in…
…Armoured Support units. Ray and his unit on 9/10Jul43 were the First Wave, at 0246hrs, on the first sustained Return to ‘Fortress Europe’, three years and a month after Dunkirk, in the 41 and 40 RM CDO night landings, swung down (after an extra ten shillings ‘invasion pay’) from davits…
…operations staff of Fighter Command’s No 11 Group and also at Fighter Command headquarters. After his exploits flying into France, he became an SOE air operations manager organising drops and agent landings in Western Europe and Scandinavia. In the autumn of 1944 Verity supervised clandestine air operations in South East…
…the MEDITERRANEAN by Planet News, on board and behind their large Jolly Roger tally flag, on 22Sep43, was one of the war’s famous photos. BEACH MARKING was undertaken, as spot on “Beacons”, for both the TORCH NORTH AFRICAN and HUSKY SICILY INVASION LANDINGS (briefing at Bizerta), the Submarine being used…
…details and deployment plans of the German V-1 Doodlebug and V-2 Rocket Vergeltunqswaffen, the reduction and delay of which were vital prerequisites for Allied landings and later victory. “Also, through her signature, we remember all those many others from Occupied Europe who did not survive their incarceration in the Concentration…
…in No 5 Group. On the night before D-Day he circled Cherbourg and controlled a force of 200 Lancasters attacking the coastal gun battery at St Pierre du Mont, which posed a serious threat to the American landings on Utah Beach. The emplacement was eliminated. He was awarded a second…
…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…
…the airlifting of entire divisions, aerial re-supply, landings by glider, casualty evacuation from small jungle airstrips and the deployment of landing craft in support of sea borne invasions and river patrols. The country and its climate were the enemy of both sides. Disease and infection could and did decimate armies…
…of the MEDITERRANEAN by Planet News, on board and behind their large Jolly Roger tally flag, on 22 Sep 1943, was one of the war’s famous photos. BEACH MARKING was undertaken, as spot on “Beacons”, for both the TORCH NORTH AFRICAN and HUSKY SICILY INVASION LANDINGS (briefing at Bizerta), the…
…squadron converted on Supermarine SEAFIRES. His bar to his DSC was for his work on OPERATION TORCH, the landings in Tunisia and Algeria Peter Twiss was posted to the Naval Air Station at Ford, England to fly long-range intruder operations over Germany in Mosquito aircraft and destroyed at least three…
…surviving key message-carrying runners of six, when the Poles finally outflanked German positions after so many months of savage fighting on 17th May 1944, at the 1,693 feet Benedictine Monastery Hill strongpoint. Cassino was the western hinge-point of the defensive GUSTAV LINE. The Anzio landings in January were not relieved…
…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…
…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…
…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…