69 results found for: Winter Line (Aka Gustav Line, Breaking of)
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…Player and it includes three historic films made by the Le Court Film Unit and Group Captain Leonard Cheshire. As well as on the BFI Player, disabled film maker Brian Line’s musical documentary Maybe Today can be viewed on the Rewind website. In this film, Brian tells a story of…
…in a cornfield, before Archie was passed through the French Resistance escape line down through the entirety of France, over the Pyrenees and through Spain to Gibraltar before returning to Britain in early 1942, where he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC). His service record for this period simply…
…MC* RAMC for the Royal Army Medical Corps, who lost 2,463 killed out of 12,000 officers & 83,000 other ranks; a most experienced front line doctor, he joined abroad without uniform, records or training, after disillusioned work in the international VOLUNTEER FORCE for FINLAND, this leading him via RUSSIA, TURKEY…
…increasing respect for himself and a type of aircraft then still regarded as decidedly dodgy. Flying Tanks and ‘Tiffies’ Aka Aircraft In Combat Action (1945) When in June 1943 a second “test” was decreed, Beamont rejoined Hawkers where he tested the Tempest, a yet more powerful and efficient machine which…
…the bomb exploded and the dam wall crumbled. The Eder Dam after being destroyed by “Upkeep” bouncing bombs Knight, who was awarded a DSO, and his crew arrived back at Scampton as dawn was breaking to find that eight of the 19 aircraft had failed to return. Raymond Ernest Grayston…
…aircraft’s descent into warmer air reopened his wounds. As the Lancaster touched down, the undercarriage collapsed and the bomber skidded along the runway for 60 yards before coming to a halt. Portrait of William Reid VC (VC online) His citation read: “Wounded in two attacks, without oxygen, suffering severely from…
…entirely masculine, even more than brotherly love, and is called comradeship.” Patrick Kenneally receives his VC from General Alexander The regiment landed at Bone, North Africa, in March 1943 and almost immediately proceeded to the front at Medjez el Bab. Later they fought at Anzio, where Kenneally was again wounded….
…him as an “outstanding pilot and leader,” made special reference to one incident in late 1941 after Rosier had scrambled his air crews on a mission to support another unit under attack from a force of Me-109s. On breaking off the engagement, Rosier saw that one of his aircraft, an…
…intact. Throughout that winter No 617 attacked precision targets, including the V-1 flying bomb sites in the Pas de Calais. On the night of February 12 1944 Curtis took off on his twelfth sortie with Martin. The target was the Antheor viaduct on the vital coastal rail link between Italy…
…that was to be waged with great intensity throughout the winter of 1943-44. Rowland flew on the first attack on the night of August 23, a sortie of almost eight hours . Throughout the autumn, he attacked other large cities including Nuremburg, Frankfurt and Munich. On October 8, the target…
…so vital in preventing atomic weapon progress of the German scientific team. Jens and his tiny team’s survival, so isolated through months of winter and near starvation, was an epic story in itself with only nine Norwegian Commandos, having to undertake successfully the Ryggan raid, after the tragic loss of…
…on Tangmere including the heavy Friday 15th August JU-87 Stuka dive bombing, while ensuring the maximum fighters were available to defend SE England – some groundcrew had been flown down from Wick in two Ensigns but already only via a western safer route. In winter 1940 Richard was sent on…
…6 a force of German bombers raided the airfield at Vaenga and Elkington was scrambled: he shared in the destruction of one of the escorting fighters. With winter weather approaching, 151 Wing began training Soviet air and ground crew to use the Hurricanes, and when the RAF contingent departed in…
…Javelin class JERSEY (1,760tons, complement 220, 10 21 inch torpedo tubes) at Hull as a young, fairly inexperienced Navigating Officer, soon to confront the realities of early ACOUSTIC MINES in CONVOY & again off PLYMOUTH; 6 weeks’ repair in Isle of Dogs Winter 1940, then off to the MED. for…
…5 days hard fighting, surrounded & all ammunition spent; to POW CAMPO 29 nr PIACENZA in ITALY. After ITALIAN SURRENDER of 8 Sep 1943 and escape, he made a long successful 3 month WINTER EVASION to ROME (9Dec43) & chose to work with a pro ALLIED ITALIAN INTELLIGENCE Organisation, allowing…
…sight of ruined cities whilst commanding transport wing in Germany, 1945. REEL 5 Continues: use of repeater Oboe during winter 1944-1945; degree of overkill during Allied bombing campaign of 1945; liaison role with 8th US Army Air Force; effect of introduction of North American P-51 Mustang; memories of General James…
…Netherlands. Monument in Royal Norfolk Square in Helmond designed by Jan van Erp “There was a curfew after 8pm and Jan was lent a Lee Enfield gun with real bullets. Two days later on his bike, he guided the anti-tank half track towards the front line. Jan’s unrecognisable father, after…
…embarked on AQUITANIA, he went to PORT SAID, Kantara and first active service was in PALESTINE, then TUNISIA, the BATTLE of CRETE, NORTH AFRICA, EIGHTH ARMY’s MARETH LINE & the BATTLES of WADI AKARIT and WADI ZIGZAU: a considerable shock, when returning to a late wartime but relaxed UK posting….
…who gave their lives. He was President of the RAF Escaping Society, a charity that provides assistance to former escape line “helpers” and their children. Until the end of his life he maintained close links, and was in constant touch, with his wartime friends in France, Belgium and Holland. Hodges…
…are any feenies about’, then kneel beside it and say his prayers.” Bolitho took a similar line in his 1943 book Combat Report, attesting to Hull’s “bubbling, unquenchable gaiety”. According to Bolitho, Hull was “possessed of a magic power of creating happiness in others; making them belittle their cares, of…
…destroying at least 20 enemy aircraft, Cunningham piloted the maiden flight of the Comet, which became the world’s first passenger jet airliner. When the plane was involved in a series of dramatic crashes, Cunningham took a model off the production line, and tested it to the point of destruction. He…
…used to every aspect of the 24hr 7day a week final assembly line production, was there to be thanked and encouraged by visiting Royalty and President Roosevelt, Barnes Wallis, Guy Gibson and others for the revolving drum spun Dam bombs – fittingly in 1995 he still cared for the Avro…
…service he continued to fly, although not on front line operations. His last flight was made on the day he retired in 1959. George Lott retired from the RAF with the rank of air vice marshal. He died on 31 December 1989 and is buried in St Andrew’s churchyard, Tangmere.”…
…like ourselves out of the two million returning ex-servicemen … ten times the number serving in the Navy in 1939” and again paraphrasing Cdr Mike CROSLEY DSC* RN [Signatory 234] from “Up in Harm’s Way”: “There were 110 FIRST LINE SQUADRONS in the FAA in Sep45, about 70 embarked in…