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…War, 16yr old Irish Yorkshireman: Troopship seaman & June, 1944 began fighting at Caen. “In a remarkable career – spanning active service in Normandy in 1944 to Northern Ireland in the 1970s, the whole with the Welsh Guards – he first came to prominence for his M.M.-winning deeds in March…
…later RASC & Roval SUSSEX, for GREECE & its loyal FIGHTING SPIRIT and STEADFAST ENDURANCE in OCCUPIED CRETE & its ISLANDS, especially with the terrible reprisals; here also for the SPECIAL BOAT SERVICE OPERATIONS in the AEGEAN, several of which he carried out with and here signs commemoratively for that…
…in the hunt for the German battleship Bismarck in May 1941. During an initial attack at night, he was the only pilot out of nine to score a torpedo hit, though no significant damage was inflicted. Bismarck was sunk two days later following a more successful air strike from Ark…
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…
…soup, a change of clothing or a bed for the night. Other helpers went further, taking men in at great risk to themselves and hiding them for months on end. And to a small minority of the very brave – men and women who deserve to be ranked among the…
…greatly enhanced the effectiveness of British anti-aircraft defences. Sam Curran (right) with Bruno Touschek. (Credit: The Touschek Family) Subsequently, be worked on developing short-wave (centimentric) radar, which was crucial to night-fighter interception of bombers and to location by aircraft of German submarines during the Battle of the Atlantic. In 1944….
…irrelevant to the strategic course of the war. In October 1942, in Operation Grouse, Poulsson and his SOE team of three Norwegian NCOs were dropped by parachute at night on the Hardangervidda plateau, within reach of the plant on skis. Their mission was to prepare for a landing by two…
…chance meeting with Georges Lamarque on a night train from Paris to Vichy… During 1943, she filed, among other reports, two particularly remarkable ones about Peenemünde. These reports led R.V. Jones and, ultimately, the rest of the British government and the rest of the Allies, directly to the missile and…
…endurance. Once nine men walked 200 miles back to base, fortified by a single packet of biscuits and a few mouthfuls of water. He also remembered the discomfort of lying on watch all night in the pouring rain, and the constant worries for the wounded and the sick when a…
…Montreal and 45 Atlantic Transport Group for six months, delivering three Mosquitos, two Bostons and a Mitchell to UK via Labrador, Greenland and Iceland. With help from Signatory 50, John “Cat’s Eyes” Cunningham, Svein was able to join No.85 Sqn’s long range Mosquito Night Fighter on deep Bomber Escort operations…
…the night without the aid of instruments or an automatic pilot, eventually landing in Morocco after a nine-hour flight. When he was due to return to England in July 1943, his wife was eight months pregnant, and the rules required that she should remain in Cairo until three months after…
…Armoured Support units. Ray and his unit on 9/10Jul43 were the First Wave, at 0246hrs, on the first sustained Return to ‘Fortress Europe’, three years and a month after Dunkirk, in the 41 and 40 RM CDO night landings, swung down (after an extra ten shillings ‘invasion pay’) from davits…
…friends had gone.” “I had no qualms about admitting to nightmares. Sleeping at dispersal near my Hurricane I would often wake from a very frightening dream of flying at night. I would be sitting up in bed and sweating like a pig.” Harold Arthur Cooper Bird-Wilson was born on November…
…of 4 tanks, then 4 troops of 3 tanks, important acclimatisation and disciplines, plus the AHMADNAGAR Cdr courses at the Fighting Vehicle School; main move forward,, shortly after a big draft from 26th HUSSARS Oct43,to ASSAM & Milestone119 were at night, where possible, for security in 1944, on 15 March…
…as a pilot officer and moving to Spitfire training on September 7th 1940. He said the Spitfire was ‘not too difficult to fly… but a devil to land at night’. Despite his training being incomplete, he was posted to 72 Squadron at Biggin Hill in October of that year to…
…TANK BATTLES in such different terrains, often when not in ideal tanks, nor understood the strains, losses and shell shock of battle so well, and advancing into ITALIAN, GERMAN, JAPANESE (here fighting retreat from, too) and other INFANTRY; just four days after ITALY’s declaration of war on Britain, the 7th…
…diver Leading Seaman “Mick” Magennis — transferred from Stygian on July 30 to relieve XE3’s passage crew . That night, at 11 pm, the midget sub slipped its tow at the eastern end of the Singapore Channel. By J. Brooks (1945): A diver is shown cutting through an anti-submarine net…
…Copyright: © IWM TR 816 After waiting until nightfall they set off again, navigating their way by the stars. For four days they crossed the desert, dodging columns of German armor, until they heard the (for once) welcome crash of gunfire. Running towards it, they stumbled with relief into a…
…the Aotearoa Maori Club. He enjoys the chance of meeting New Zealanders in his job, and obviously often thinks of home.” —Barbara Ewing. Source: http://teaohou.natlib.govt.nz/journals/teaohou/issue/Mao60TeA/c12.html) About the 28th (Māori) Battalion The 28th (Māori) Battalion was part of the 2nd New Zealand Division, the fighting arm of the 2nd New Zealand…
…George Lott is in the centre, in the eye-patch covering the loss of an eye sustained in action on July 9th, 1940. He’d returned to his Command, the legendary 43 (F) ‘Fighting Cocks’ Squadron – a rare circumstance. His Squadron was already legendary – and the friendship of Peter Townsend…
7 September, 1940. 80 years ago, this photo was taken, at around 1 pm, outside the Officer’s Mess at Tangmere Station. They’re Hurricane pilots from 43 (F) Squadron, “the Fighting Cocks”, and they don’t know, but might suspect, that they’re about to enter the fight of their lives… Three hours…
…the Indian Army had a unique character. In 1945 the Indian Army achieved its finest hour, setting many proud traditions for the current Indian and Pakistani armies. Fighting alongside the Britons, Indians and Gurkhas, there were also East and West Africans, Burmese, Karens and Kachins, Americans and Canadians, and Chinese….
…BOR-KOMOROWSKI’s AK survivors would face doubtful futures in German concentration camps. This became the longest POLISH STRUGGLE of WW2, ending in a bitter catastrophe, apart from upholding POLAND’s honour & fighting prestige – excepting the Holocaust and the German subjugation of much of European Russia, WARSAW was the most brutal…
…1927 as a 15-year-old apprentice, a “Halton brat”.He was first employed as a ground crew fitter and metal rigger before being selected in 1935 for a pilot’s course. He was then posted as a sergeant pilot to No 43 Squadron, the Fighting Cocks, whose aircraft he had been servicing.Demonstrating exceptional…