198 results found for: Prisoners of War (Pows)
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…War, and who carried out the largest armed rescue of Jews by their own people during the war. Trailer: Bielski brothers were heroes, says survivor By David Harrison 10 January 2009 (Daily Telegraph) Daniel Craig’s latest film Defiance tells the powerful story of three Jewish brothers who fled the Nazi…
…studied at the Glasgow School of Art where he was awarded a travelling scholarship, venturing to France and Italy. He was commissioned as a war artist in both the First and Second World Wars and became a member of the Royal Academy in 1935. He lived in Blackheath, London, until…
…full-time to Vickers Supermarine in 1938, Quill took complete charge of Spitfire test flying, working closely with Joseph (Joe) Smith who had taken over as chief designer for Supermarine in 1937, following the death of R.J. Mitchell in the same year. Second World War During the Second World War, Quill…
“Captain Dickie Annand, who died on Christmas Eve aged 90, won the Army’s first Victoria Cross of the Second World War when serving with the 2nd Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, in Belgium in May 1940. Dickie Annand VC On May 15, 2 DLI was in a defensive position on…
…varied career, which spanned many aircraft types – after North West Frontier service pre-war and later in BLENHEIMS in the Desert War his book, “The War That Never Was”, records the rapid improvisation and fighting initiative which turned unarmed trainers into weapons of war, raising the SIEGE of No.4 FLYING…
World War 1 Flying Ace. RFC & RAF, with 12 WW1 kills No.32 Sqn DH2s in France at 18, was last surviving WWI SE-5 fighter leader on No.40 Sqn, after Central Flying School Lieutenant Commander; WW2 in War Cabinet team reporting to & briefing CHURCHILL. Obituary courtesy of The Independent….
…Sismore’s work was outstanding and contributed mat erially to the success obtained. Again, in April, 1945, this officer flew with great distinction in an attack against a similar target at Odense. This officer, who completed much operational flying, has rendered very valuable service.” (Traces of War) ‘After the war, Sismore…
…war record was the more remarkable for his having recovered from a crash shortly after the outbreak of war. He was piloting a B A Swallow, a light civilian aeroplane being used for communications service, when he crashed in foul weather at Cranwell. He was fortunate to survive the accident,…
…in June 1940. He was killed on active duty on January 1st 1942 and is buried at Halfaya Sollum Cemetary on the Egypt/Libyan border. Robin Yorke Hull’s gravestone in Halfaya-Sollum Cemetery (Commonwealth War Graves Commission, South Africa War Graves) A Tribute to the Forgotten Rhodesian Soldiers of World War II…
…veteran BBC broadcaster, war reporter and BBC executive represents the important roles of both war correspondents and the BBC in WW2. He died six weeks before his 90th birthday but still looked much younger and remained sprightly, fluent and lucid until he died. He was born in Tiverton and As…
…war was over Jan and Josef would take the Ellison family to Prague to show them just how beautiful it was. “Clearly, the men were planning on returning to Ightfield and the Ellison family as they left uniforms and personal items in the wardrobe – items that were eventually taken…
…about her own part in the war. She never married.” (Obituary originally published in and courtesy of The Telegraph) “Some photos, a stereoscope, plenty of natural light… What else could anyone need? Constance back at Medmenham for the 1977 BBC series ‘The Secret War’ – episode 3: “Terror Weapons”. (Harngroup)”…
“Danger has some kind of satanic appeal to me. I am drawn towards it in an octopus-like grip of fear.” “Wartime commander of the Long Range Desert Group who thrived on danger in North Africa and the Balkans. MAJOR-GENERAL DAVID LLOYD OWEN, who has died aged 83, commanded the Long…
…his DSC for his part in the destruction of U-652 in June 1942. During his time in the Western Desert Gick was compelled to make the best use of resources as and when he found them. A group of Italian prisoners of war was conscripted to do the cooking for…
…Legion of Merit RN, whose submarine experience included HMS/Ms NARWHAL, URSULA, H32 & H43 (twice falsely alerted to the departure of Scharnhorst and Gneisenau to sit off BREST), UTMOST (about three war patrols, including his first DEPTH CHARGING at XMAS,1941 as they lay below, counting 40 to 50 explosions close…
“His night-fighter status in the war was unrivalled and comparable to the best of the best daytime fighter pilots” ‘Group Captain John ‘Cat’s Eyes’ Cunningham, who has died aged 84, was a night fighter ace and later a consummate test pilot whose name guaranteed the reputation of British aviation. After…
…No 103 Squadron, equipped with the Fairey Battle, deployed to France. Max flew patrols throughout the Phoney War, but when the German assault began on May 10 1940 the 10 Battle squadrons in France were immediately in action. Plane: A Fairey Battle, pre-war aircraft used during the ‘Phoney War’. (Credit:…
…almost every British military operation since the First World War – and ‘the Fighting Cocks’, 43 (F) Squadron. Tommy had been an engineer in the pre-war motoring industry, and went on to service BATTLE OF BRITAIN HURRICANES, SPITFIRES in ITALY, & 1944/45 LANCASTERS. Among ‘The Long and the Short and…
…tanks, 1,500 trucks and 20,000 POWs were added to another 111,000 Prisoners taken in the previous two months; on 5Feb41, his revolver mislaid in his tank, PADDY took & directed 300 prisoners just with his Verey pistol, an Italian officer giving him an automatic to assist the situation! A couple…
“Marshal of the RAF Sir John Grandy, who died on Friday aged 90, was the only Chief of the Air Staff to have commanded a fighter squadron throughout the Battle of Britain. But as Chief, he was fated to preside over some of the most difficult transitions of the post-war…
“258 of the 700 prisoners escaped, including half of those awaiting execution” Wartime fighter pilot famed for leading low-level precision bombing raids “Eighteen Mosquito-VI fighter-bombers, six each from 487, 464 and 21 squadrons, all carrying two 500lb bombs with 11-second delay detonators, were to breach the 20ft-walls surrounding the prison…
…Legion of Merit RN, whose submarine experience included HMS/Ms NARWHAL, URSULA, H32 & H43 (twice falsely alerted to the departure of Scharnhorst and Gneisenau to sit off BREST), UTMOST (about three war patrols, including his first DEPTH CHARGING at XMAS,1941 as they lay below, counting 40 to 50 explosions close…
“They had achieved complete surprise, with one bullet hole in a wing being the only damage sustained during what was the first sinking of a major warship in wartime by aerial bombing.” Blackburn Skuas and Fairey Swordfish aircraft landing on the deck of HMS ARK ROYAL after attacking the Italian…
…shores of Malta (bombing them on land was creating too much of a mess), which was a good thing as we felt confident that we must have been winning the war,” he recounts. Siege Bell War Memorial, Valletta, Malta. Designed by Michael Sandle and erected in 1992, it commemorates the…