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…Twiss had moved to Australia, led eventually to the shipment of the new interferometer to New South Wales, where it was erected in a suitably remote spot at Narrabri. Hanbury Brown had been appointed Professor of Radio-Astronomy at Manchester University in 1960. After taking several years leave in Australia to…
Alan Pollock’s Rough Notes: A work in progress – the fuller biographies will emerge in due course: please sign up to the Newsletter (bottom of the page) and we’ll let you know when we’ve done more justice in writing up our extraordinary signatories. Captain (earlier Lt Cdr) Konstantyn ZUBKOWSKI POLISH…
…Bay. From January to mid-February he would account for 7 Zekes, more than one Hamp and 3 Val dive bombers, these last who were attacking a largely New Zealander-led landing on to Green Island. On the morning of 23rd after supporting friends attacking and destroying a Zeke, he found himself…
…& No.145 (FRENCH) WING, author of Nine Lives. Representing NEW ZEALAND #168 Billy DRAKE Group Captain Billy DRAKE DSO DFC* (20 e/a) No. 1(F) Sqn HURRICANES in FRANCE, 213 Sqn, 421 Flight BATTLE of BRITAIN, SPITFIRE FR, OC 112 Sqn KITTYHAWKS WESTERN DESERT, Wing Ldr MALTA,then 20 WG TYPHOONS and…
Alan Pollock’s Rough Notes: A work in progress – the fuller biographies will emerge in due course: please sign up to the Newsletter (bottom of the page) and we’ll let you know when we’ve done more justice in writing up our extraordinary signatories. In memory of her brother, one of…
Alan Pollock’s Rough Notes: A work in progress – the fuller biographies will emerge in due course: please sign up to the Newsletter (bottom of the page) and we’ll let you know when we’ve done more justice in writing up our extraordinary signatories. Warrant Officer Pilot Don JONES covers the…
Alan Pollock’s Rough Notes: A work in progress – the fuller biographies will emerge in due course: please sign up to the Newsletter (bottom of the page) and we’ll let you know when we’ve done appropriate justice to the American heroes among our signatories. Commander David C BAGLEY DFC USN…
Alan Pollock’s Rough Notes: A work in progress – the fuller biographies will emerge in due course: please sign up to the Newsletter (bottom of the page) and we’ll let you know when we’ve done appropriate justice to the American heroes among our signatories. Captain ROBERT M ‘Bob’ ELDER US…
Alan Pollock’s Rough Notes: A work in progress – the fuller biographies will emerge in due course: please sign up to the Newsletter (bottom of the page) and we’ll let you know when we’ve done more justice in writing up our extraordinary signatories. Winefred (née CASSELLE) Cole WAAF for the…
Royal Flying Corps ‘Selfie’, taken (without official approval) with a newly available Kodak Box Camera. Courtesy of The Retronaut “A leader of exceptional dash and ability.” An Impression of Lens, France, Seen from an Aeroplane: The Anglo-German Front Line, 1918 by Richard C Carline © Art.IWM ART 2661 Harold Balfour…
…Sgt Gus Guthrie, to adapt to his new calling as a radar operator. Bristol Blenheim Mk I (1940) by Keith Henderson (from Cecil Lewis’s “Sagittarius Rising”) Bristol Blenheim Mk I (1940) by Keith Henderson (from Cecil Lewis’s “Sagittarius Rising”) It was not until the following spring, when the squadron converted…
…Mary as the model. But by the late 1930s the Mirror wanted to use it in panel form and with more risque content, and when Mary Pett’s attention suddenly turned to golf, her husband began to look for a new model. In late 1939, on a visit to his old…
Alan Pollock’s Rough Notes: A work in progress – the fuller biographies will emerge in due course: please sign up to the Newsletter (bottom of the page) and we’ll let you know when we’ve done appropriate justice to the American heroes among our signatories. Lt Colonel Philip M RASMUSSEN USAAF…
Alan Pollock’s Rough Notes: A work in progress – the fuller biographies will emerge in due course: please sign up to the Newsletter (bottom of the page) and we’ll let you know when we’ve done appropriate justice to the American heroes among our signatories. Captain John W COX USAAF Airplane…
Alan Pollock’s Rough Notes: A work in progress – the fuller biographies will emerge in due course: please sign up to the Newsletter (bottom of the page) and we’ll let you know when we’ve done appropriate justice to the American heroes among our signatories. Captain J Royden STORK for Operation…
…1943 Ercolani went to the newly-formed No 355 Squadron. He flew many sorties deep into enemy territory, some involving a round trip of 2,000 miles, to destroy the supply networks used to reinforce and support the Burma battlefield. An important and frequent target was the Siam-Burma railway built by Allied…
…of No. 150 Wing, leaning against a Hawker Tempest Mark V of No. 3 Squadron RAF at Newchurch Advanced Landing Ground, Kent. © IWM HU 92120 ‘Wing Commander Roland ‘Bee’ BEAMONT’s dazzling wartime service as a fighter pilot and wing leader was followed by a long and sustained peacetime career…
…them over to Dedee. And so it was that airmen like Sergeant Jack Newton, gunner on a Wellington bomber, found themselves living through scenes that could have come from a farfetched thriller or adventure film. The unreality began from the moment they fell to earth. Newton’s plane was downed on…
…employed on the PAC unit on the Station’s northern boundary. 3 Dornier bombers headed towards his position and when they came into range he launched a line of 9 rockets. A new anti-aircraft weapon at the time, the Luftwaffe pilots struggled to combat its effectiveness. Roberts actions and leadership accounted…
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Alan Pollock’s Rough Notes: A work in progress – the fuller biographies will emerge in due course: please sign up to the Newsletter (bottom of the page) and we’ll let you know when we’ve done more justice in writing up our extraordinary signatories. Lt Thomas A SUTTON RNVR for the…