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…two towed gliders and 37 British Commandos.’ [ARP] In addition to the well-known 1966 film ‘The Heroes of Telemark’ about the raids, a more recent Norwegian documentary mini-series with dramatize episodes, ‘The Heavy Water War’ was released as The Saboteurs in the UK, several episodes of which can be found…
…Americans. After honing his skills, he took part in major raids against industrial heartlands in Germany and occupied France and attacks on V1 and V2 launch sites and the V3 ‘Vengeance’ guns in Northern France using bunker-busting ‘Tallboy’ bombs. In one raid on a factory in Limoges, Leonard insisted on…
…AVENGER OPERATIONS (at times with pilot, later Vice-Adm Gus Halliday DSC) flying over HOME WATERS & the ATLANTIC (then often with Lt later Rear-Adm David KIRKE CB CBE RN), and later with the EAST INDIES FLEET for the important raids on the Songei Gerong PALEMBANG OIL REFINERY installations 29 Jan…
…“magnificent courage and leadership”. During a “rest” in command of a bomber training unit he flew on all three of the Thousand Bomber Raids in the spring of 1942. On the first, one of the four engines of his Halifax failed on the outbound route, but he pressed on and…
…visit the grave of Bob Hay, his bomb aimer killed over Antheor. Larry Curtis married, in 1945, Barbara Craven, who survives him with their three sons.” Curtis [right] with Don MacLean, his navigator in No 617 Squadron: the two men were comrades in a number of raids on northern France…
…raids which reduced the damage done to Britain by Germany’s new airborne weapons. She was working as a photographic interpreter in the Allied Photographic Intelligence Unit, and in April 1943 had been briefed by the Air Ministry to be on the look-out for a long-range gun, remotely controlled rocket aircraft…
…where the intake was only ten each quarter. There was no pay, only board and lodging for the first three months. The hospital kept operating through the raids and was fortunate to escape the bombs, which flattened mush of the surrounding houses and buildings. After the worst of the Blitz,…
…was used for the first time and proved very effective in reducing bomber losses. Rowland flew on three of the four raids that devastated the city and the Blohm and Voss shipyard. In the middle of August, Bomber Command launched the first phase of the Battle of Berlin, a campaign…
…Was also AIR and WAR CORRESPONDENT on “Sunday Times 1940-43, FLYING and with personal & SERVICE links played an important early LIAISON WORK with UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCE Commanders and on early USAAF Raids; at war’s end for two years he was British CIVIL AIR ATTACHE in WASHINGTON, USA…
…was a highly decorated bomber captain who flew more than 100 raids with RAF Bomber Command and the Pathfinder Force before embarking on a distinguished career in civil aviation. After completing his training as an air observer, Alabaster joined No 51 Squadron, operating the twin-engined Whitley. He made his first…
…of pre-war RAF career; receiving news of outbreak of Second World War, 3/9/1939; status of sergeant pilots; participating in first leaflet raid of Second World War; character of leaflet raids during Phoney War; ineffectiveness of target finding in first years of Second World War; pressure from other services against bombing…
…PoWs. In September 1944 Ercolani returned as CO to No 99 Squadron, where he won the respect and affection of his airmen (“erks”, in RAF slang), who affectionately dubbed him “THE Erk”. He led many of the most difficult raids himself, often taking his heavy four-engine bomber as low as…
…wet beer on a bar top by the “scruffiest officer in MEAF” a Sqn Ldr Andrew Humphrey, later to be CAS”) – Robin’s role as Flt Cdr then Sqn Cdr with raids on shipping, particularly the twin hulled German Siebel ferries later into the Adriatic within the Balkan Air Force…
…JM ‘Johnnie’ COOPER MBE DCM & 3 MiDs SCOTS GUARDS, GDS CDO, L Det’t + 2, 21 & 22 SPECIAL AIR SERVICE, David STIRLING’s driver & navigator Desert RAIDS, D-Day Maquis, BELSEN #72 Roden CUTLER Sir Roden CUTLER VC AK KCMG KCVO CBE Recipient of the Victoria Cross. For: AIJSTRALIA,…
…Optics. BAWDSEY RESEARCH, AMRE & TRE 1936-1942, FIU AIRBORNE INTERCEPTION, AIR to SURFACE VESSEL RADAR; passed USA REBECCA & IFF for US NAVY #277 Margaret HANCOCK Mrs Margaret HANCOCK née Williams for BRITISH NURSING Ongar, Savernake, King’s in LONDON BLITZ raids,V-1&2s, Fg Off PM RAF Nursing, Iwakuni Japan, wife of…
…Cdr FRIGATES Representing RN RESERVE & CONVOY PROTECTION #280 David C BAGLEY Cdr David C BAGLEY DFC USNR Took park in key RAIDS on RABAUL JAP NEW GUINEA base near JAPANESE NAVY’s TRUK until 17Feb44, on to Guam, Saipan, Palau, Iwo Jima to bomb Japan. Representing PACIFIC US NAVAL WAR…
…‘Johnny’ D FROST on BRUNEVAL RAID (Operation Biting), the PARAS’ first Battle Honour, to dismantle & retrieve this German radar. Representing GROUND RADAR #298 John W COX Captain John W COX USAAF B-29 SUPERFORTRESS Airplane Cdr for US MARINES taking TINIAN & SAIPAN + TOKYO B-29 RAIDS, crew Plt C…
…V1 raids; Anderson and Morrison shelters; education; VE Day, 8/5/1945; Victory parades, 1946; question of re-establishing relationship with father and visit to him in Germany, 1946; parents’ strained marriage. REEL 2 Continues: education at St Paul’s School, West Kensington, 1947-1953; boxing activities; training with Combined Cadet Force and Air Cadets;…
…more than 250 years…if the Lord wills.” Renowned cellist. German wartime opposition & Nazi resistance. #162 Loek NC CASPERS Dr Loek NC ‘Elsa’ CASPERS King’s Medal for Service in cause of Freedom “Caspers used her bike to transport everything from hand grenades to transmitters for calling in allied bombing raids…
…its CO on 1st January,1944. On March 6, 1944 Blakeslee flew as leader of the first Mustang sortie over BERLIN while defending Boeing B-17s and Consolidated B-24s. Escorting the massed daylight raids of the 8th AIR FORCE over Occupied Europe while under Blakeslee’s command, the 4th FG became one of…