57 results found for: Aerial Reconnaissance
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…muzzle!); back to EUROPE as the Regimental Honours at HILL 112, CAEN & FALAISE, winning his MC at the River ALLER crossing; had an end war race to the Baltic to forestall (by 8 hrs) Soviet Forces entering DENMARK; his main role was RECONNAISSANCE operations, in fast, light HONEY TANKS…
…party to recce then join Joachim Rønneberg DSO’s daring Vemork Heavy Water Raid, delaying German atomic weapons. ‘Colonel Jens Anton Poulsson was commander of the external and early inserted advanced party which would reconnaissance ahead of and be Joachim Ronneberg’s internal Demolition party for the Vemork Heavy Water Raid, considered…
…visual tactical reconnaissance important, with secondary strikes against SHIPPING and whatever LOCOMOTIVES or TRAINS could be seen, using a variable weapon load of BOMBS or NAPALM and almost invariably full GUNS & ammunition. The Guns of Navarone JOHN’s father had been in the NZ EXPEDITIONARY FORCE in WW1 and his…
…only left on the helm and since I was limping I was often the steersman, It was now a lovely day and we tried to use two mirrors to signal. Then a reconnaissance aircraft came over flashing in Morse. Wee Johnny Boyle had died, very lightly clothed coming out of…
…Jewish partisans in a reconnaissance group. “They were on tall horses and carrying machine guns,” he says. “It was an amazing sight. “I had come from a camp where thousands of Jewish people were being killed by the Germans. And now there were all these fighters, with guns. I felt…
…ships, which escorted convoys. Whenever a German reconnaissance aircraft was sighted, the “Hurricat” (a modified Hurricane) would be catapulted from the deck of the ship to carry out an intercept. On return, the pilot either bailed out or ditched alongside the CAM ship. Elkington completed one round trip to Canada…
…as ‘Battle of Britain Day‘) two of these men, the Australian Richard Reynell and the South African Caesar Hull, were killed in action. Van Den Hove was in turn lost a week later, on Battle of Britain Day itself, and David Gorrie the following April. Aerial photograph of Tangmere…
…else Representing PHOTOGRAPHIC RECONNAISSANCE, vital in ground, naval & air operations #13 Harold BALFOUR Harold Balfour, First Lord BALFOUR of Inchrye PC MC* (9 e/a) Flight Lieutenant Commander as 43(F) Sqn was formed by 23yr old Major Sholto Douglas MC; flew Western Front Sopwith Strutters & Camels; Churchill’s 1938-44 USofS…
…child Harry Stadler; and Chrystabel Leighton-Porter – immortalised in the cartoon ‘Jane’, which Churchill called “Britain’s secret weapon”. An Aerial Battle by Francis Dodd (6 September, 1940) Winston Churchill waves to crowds in Whitehall in London as they celebrate VE Day, 8 May 1945. H41849 Stanley Spencer, Tea in the…