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…obtaining basic data for the future DH 106 Comet and the naval fighter Sea Vixen. Meanwhile, work had started on the Comet, and Cunningham, accompanying BOAC crews on five transatlantic flights and two round trips to Australia, also began to gain experience of the requirements of airline crews. On July…
…MOSQUITO), son of Air Vice Marshal Sir Francis Mellersh, RFC Sopwith Camel pilot (5 e/a) against ‘Red Baron’ Manfred von Richthofen #69 John B MITCHELL Air Commodore John B MITCHELL CBE AFC Wartime ROYAL & VIP flights, inc. CHURCHILL to YALTA & other flights. Representing TRANSPORT COMMAND & OBSERVERS and…
…was an unwelcome surprise. Luckily only three Royal Naval ships were in Trincomalee with most of the eastern Fleet maintaining radio silence at the Addu Atoll. For Churchill, the continued existence of the remnants of the British Eastern Fleet with some Dutch warships too would prevent a Japanese troop invasion…
…her recovery from an infection brought on by malnutrition. Audrey Hepburn (1956) having recovered from life-threatening malnutrition with the help of Micky Burn [Signatory #86]. Later in life, she devoted much of her time to UNICEF. In the week of March 1946 in which Churchill first described an Iron Curtain…
…took a nap in the bomb aimer’s position, only awakening to land. It was his 65th and last operational sortie. THE ROYAL AIR FORCE IN THE LIBYAN DESERT, APRIL 1943 (TR 901) Royal Air Force ground crew overhauling a Bristol Beaufighter’s Hercules engines at Magrun. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source:…
Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir John Grandy, GCB, GCVO, KBE, DSO, KStJ (8 February 1913 – 2 January 2004) was a senior officer in the Royal Air Force. He was the only officer who fought and commanded a squadron during the Battle of Britain to reach the post…
…the time, but the Royal Air Force refused to court martial him, preferring, instead to have a Medical Board discharge him. He was not court martialled, he claims, because his outspoken views on the fighting effectiveness of the Royal Air Force and the lack of RAF 50th anniversary flying celebrations…
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….
…NEW ZEALAND and COMMONWEALTH contribution to the ROYAL NAVY, here a “Hostilities Only” pilot on CORSAIRS, who joined the BRITISH PACIFIC FLEET after converting on to CORSAIRS in CEYLON, firstly in 1830 SOUADRON. John particularly remembered a strike against an island radar base off FORMOSA and how useful the mix…
…England’s declaration of war with Germany. West travelled back to London, and enlisted as a Private, in the Royal Army Medical Corps (to his own dismay as he wanted immediate action in France). He then applied for transfer for several months before being accepted for a commission in the Royal…
…MA CEng FICE CORPS of ROYAL ENGINEERS: served in 1 Section 23 FIELD COMPANY R.E., in 1 TROOP 6 COMMANDO, and took part in the early, successful COMBINED OPERATIONS RAID on VAAGSO & Maaloy in NORWAY 27 Dec 1941 (after Blenheims bombed the nearby German airfield at Herdla) wrecking oil…
…at South Shields, he became a midshipman in the Tyne Division of the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve. In 1936, he was promoted to Sub-Lieutenant and attended a navigation course at Portsmouth and a gunnery course at Whale Island. In 1937 his application for a regular Navy commission was turned down…
…persuasion and shared hardships. The mutual confidence this bred would reap an uncommonly rich dividend. David Lanyon Lloyd Owen, the son of a captain in the Royal Navy, was born at Hampton, Middlesex, on October 10 1917. He was educated at Winchester and Sandhurst and was commissioned into The Queen’s…
…20th March 1946 as Polish Liaison Officer. He was released in 1948 as a Squadron Leader. Battle of Britain at Madame Tussaud’s (1969) by British Pathe CU Wax work of Adolf Hitler at Madame Tussauds. CU Hand holding cigar. Pan up to wax work of Sir Winston Churchill. CU Churchill’s…
…chased a lone Junkers 88 bomber to the coast. After the first pilot caused some damage to it, Elkington attacked from close range with his machine-guns before the Junkers disappeared. Shortly afterwards a Royal Observer Corps post spotted an aircraft crashing into the sea and Elkington was credited with having…
“one of the top scoring Royal Air Force fighter pilots of the Second World War and the second highest scoring RAF fighter pilot of the Battle of Britain” World War Two fighter pilot James Harry “Ginger” Lacey is being honoured with a blue plaque this weekend at his birthplace –…
“some sort of tube out of which a rocket could be squirted” Aeroplane Hat at Aero Garden Party on Drome. A fashionably dressed crowd saw some of Britain’s latest war planes side by side with fast civil liners and pioneer machines at the Royal Aeronautical Society’s garden party on the…
…of Britain at Madame Tussaud’s (1969) by British Pathe CU Wax work of Adolf Hitler at Madame Tussauds. CU Hand holding cigar. Pan up to wax work of Sir Winston Churchill. CU Churchill’s head. AS Spitfire hanging from ceiling. SV Pilot in cockpit. Pan to show the guns. GV Reception…
…fighter ace who was decorated for gallantry while fighting for the Royal Air Force © IWM LD 421 The other close friend for whom Tony Liskutin signed in memory, Otmar Kucera, who died in 1991 Memorial to Tony’s friend Otto Smik in Bratislava. “Squadron Leader Miroslav Liskutin was born on…
…tests except for a hearing test problem from an inflammation possibly tricky if exposed to rapid air pressure changes. Receiving call up papers for the Army he was not too keen after hearing Dunkirk stories of long marches, so volunteered for the expanding Royal Navy, with the usual three months…
…MEDAL was won seconded to the KING Is OWN YORKSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY at ANZIO. His fighting was up through ITALY, especially heavy at the GOT d LINEY where he was with his own Regiment, the KING’s ROYAL RIFLE CORP (1958 became 2nd Bn ROYAL GREEN JACKETS), whose 159 OFFICERS and…
…(Warriors of the Sky) _________ France, 1940: 1 Squadron by Christopher Shores via the BBC History Archive [‘Last updated 2011-03-30′] On 13 May 1912 one of the first three military aviation units of the new Royal Flying Corps was formed – although in those days it was an airship squadron,…
…3 and 4 SAS (2 and 3 Regiment de Chasseurs Parachutistes) from the British to the French Army at Tarbes in southern France (1945) Related Signatories M.R.D. FOOT (#140) (Royal Engineers, SAS) Richard RHODES JAMES (#138) (Chindits) Mike Calvert’s IWM Oral History REEL 1 Background to joining Special Air Service,…
…advertisement in Aeroplane magazine, he joined the RAF just before his 18th birthday and was commissioned a few months later having qualified as a pilot. ROYAL AIR FORCE: WEST AFRICA COMMAND, 1941-1945. Squadron Leader Billy Drake stands in the cockpit of his Hawker Hurricane Mark IIB, BD897, at Hastings, Sierra…