69 results found for: Avalanche (Operation)
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…in Iraq in April 1941, he immediately threatened the RAF’s main staging post and training base at Habbaniya. Dudgeon had recently arrived to command B Flight of No 4 Flying Training School. With virtually no operational aircraft available to defend the airfield, he and his colleagues set about converting their…
…Arm 4, the branch of the RAF responsible for bomb disposal policy. In April the next year an RAF BD squad reported the discovery of an unexploded bomb with some unusual features. Certain members of the Air Ministry staff were deployed operationally from time to time on some of the…
…operations staff of Fighter Command’s No 11 Group and also at Fighter Command headquarters. After his exploits flying into France, he became an SOE air operations manager organising drops and agent landings in Western Europe and Scandinavia. In the autumn of 1944 Verity supervised clandestine air operations in South East…
…was eventually withdrawn from long-range bombing operations, and Max and his crews flew mining sorties and parachute drops to resistance groups. After converting to the Lancaster and flying a few more operations in support of the impending D-Day landings, his tour ended in May 1944, when he was awarded the…
…Operations Headquarters before joining SAS as intelligence officer. Prisoner of war severely injured trying to escape. SPECIAL OPERATIONS EXECUTIVE, & Cols Airey NEAVE & James LANGLEY, MI9 ESCAPE & EVASION & + father SEARCHLIGHT & A/A DEFENCE. #43 Macleod FORSYTH Company Sergeant Major Macleod FORSYTH MM Order of the Red…
Wing Commander Lucian Ercolani was a wartime bomber pilot decorated three times for gallantry in operations over Europe and in the Far East; he was later chairman of the family furniture company Ercol. On the night of November 7/8 1941, Ercolani took off in his Wellington of No 214 Squadron…
…of NIGERIA, SIERRA. LEONE, GOLD COAST (later Ghana) and GAMBIA. The 6th, 7th and 12th Battalions NIGERIA REGIMENT, as the 3rd West African Brigade, arrived in India Nov43 and quickly took part as 66 & 39, 29 & 35, 12 & 43 Columns in the Second CHINDlT’s Operation THURSDAY, Brig…
…and their officer training at Evere. After invasion, air operations in a chaotic environment, an attempted escape (his friend Lt Didier made thirteen!) and 6 months of incarceration, and a Jan41 release return to near Brussels, their plot was hatched in April and, not without many adventures, mishaps, setbacks and…
An Improvised Test of an Under-carriage by Keith Henderson (1940) © Art.IWM ART LD 380 ‘They called him ‘Tommy’ because…’ Like Alan Pollock, George ‘Tommy’ Atkins served in two legendary squadrons – the first, No. 1(F), the Royal Air Force’s oldest operational unit and one that has been involved in…
…a huge impact on the morale of the RAF. When a long-lost man completed his home run and returned to his squadron, apart from boosting numbers he was living proof to every one of his comrades due to set out on the next dangerous operation that this war was survivable….
…SPECIAL FORCES OPERATION deliveries 4 pick ups under GLENGYLE1s South African CAPTAIN PETRIE; then diverted to assist GREECE 4 CRETE (many soldiers, pleased to be picked up, were strafed by fighters 4 killed on return) in evacuating SUDA BAY 4 SPHAKIA, Jul 1941 LITANI RIVER in SYRIA, landing Col KEYES…
…Managing Director Radio, for some years he helped contribute to both American and Australian public service broadcasting. In 1971, he helped to ensure an oral history archive for the future was undertaken to cover the candid memories of early BBC broadcasters and later a similar operation for a filmed record….
…awarded DFC in 1943. Major Christie would also command 332 Sqn from Jan-Jun 1944 initially on Ramrod missions, and then Army Co-operation, before dive-bombing ops against rail and radar targets ahead of D-Day. When patrolling the beachhead, 332 shot down quite a few FW-190 and Br-109 aircraft. After resting in…
…The historian, Martin Middlebrook (“ARNHEM 1944”) gives a total of 11,920 men as taking part “in the airborne operation to ARNHEM in the lst BRITISH AIRBORNE Division, the POLISH INDEPENDENT Brigade Group and various attached elements”. Deriving one Table from two of his, the casualties were as follows, showing how…
#57 RC ALABASTER Wing Commander R C ‘Cliff’ ALABASTER DSO* DFC* (Subsequently contributed to the development of POSTWAR AVIATION, then as pilot Captain, Comets & BOAC) Representing OBSERVERS, the PATHFINDER FORCE, and 1943 PEENEMUNDE RAID (Operation Hydra) #3 George ATKINS Corporal ‘Tommy’ George ATKINS Nos 1(F) & 43(F) Sqns, in…
…pilot’ of WWII. Legends on the ground include: Operation Market Garden’s John ‘Shan’ Hackett; Chindit ‘Mad Mike’ Calvert; the great desert tank commander ‘Pip’ Roberts; Australian VC Roden Cutler; St. Nazaire Raider and Colditz POW Micky Burn (who also helped Audrey Hepburn survive); Operation Market Garden glider and escapee Michael…
…Wing Commander JFD ‘Tim’ ELKINGTON RAFC Cranwell 1939-40, No.1(F) Sqn in Battles of France & Britain, went with 1941 No.151 Wing Hurricanes to VAENGA RUSSIA and on catapult Hurricane Atlantic CAM ships #54 Edward FENNESSY Group Captain Sir Edward FENNESSY CBE BSc FIEE FRIN Representing the vital operation and repair…
…in ATLANTIC & EAST INDIES FLEET PALEMBANG #143 Charles H NEWENS Chief Petty Officer Charles H NEWENS AIC Thames waterman, boat-builder, sculls (60yrs Henley Regatta official). OPERATION DYNAMO: DUNKIRK LITTLE SHIPS (29May-3 Jun 40, saved 224,717) RN COASTAL FORCES. #178 Konstanty OKOLOW-ZUBKOWSKI Lieutenant Commander Konstanty OKOLOW-ZUBKOWSKI POLISH NAVY. 37 POLISH…
…were going to their deaths.” Lorna’s tale was first told in The Mirror Caught the Sun: Operation Anthropoid 1942. #311 Jack KAGAN Jack Kagan BEM (1929-2016) One of 30,000 Jews who fought the Nazis in the forests of Eastern Europe, a Holocaust writer and educator. As a boy, twice escaped…
…6Jun44 on D-DAY beach & representing No.4 COMMANDO & MARINE COMMANDOS & OPERATION OVERLORD losses. #68 April MEEKUMS April MEEKUMS+ (neé BRIGHT) In memory of her brother, one of 168 CIVILIANS killed (& 121 seriously injured) in the worst V-2 attack of WW2, on 25NOV44 on Woolworths store, New Cross,…
…Priory to install the RAF’s first radar operations room. But it was serviced by only five stations, and would have been, in his view, “quite inadequate” to its defensive purpose. It was Chamberlain’s negotiation of the Munich agreement that same day which bought sufficient time for the Chain Home network…