195 results found for: Phoney War (Sitzkrieg)
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…Legion of Merit RN, whose submarine experience included HMS/Ms NARWHAL, URSULA, H32 & H43 (twice falsely alerted to the departure of Scharnhorst and Gneisenau to sit off BREST), UTMOST (about three war patrols, including his first DEPTH CHARGING at XMAS,1941 as they lay below, counting 40 to 50 explosions close…
…in 1939 to No 87 Squadron, which was exchanging Gloster Gladiator biplanes for Hurricane fighters. When war broke out, 87 Squadron was sent to France, one of only four Hurricane squadrons in the air component of the BEF. After experiencing the ennui of the “phoney war” in the winter of…
…then squadron leader and the commanding officer of the fighting wing of the school. Archie ended the war by graduating from Army Staff College at Camberly and taking up a post at the Air Ministry. After the war he served in Japan and Belgium, and founded the first wing of…
Air Chief Marshal Sir David Evans flew fighter ground-attack missions in the latter stages of the Second World War and held senior operational commands during the Cold War. He was one of the first RAF officers to enter Belsen, he also piloted the GB bobsleigh team at the 1964 Olympics….
Model for the morale-boosting ‘Jane’ cartoon: ‘worth at least two divisions’ “Britain’s Secret Weapon” (Winston Churchill) “CHRISTABEL LEIGHTON-PORTER was the model for the Daily Mirror’s wartime strip cartoon “Jane”; the character’s lightly-clad adventures with the Security Service were credited with maintaining the morale of the Forces and even, on the…
…that he had been awarded a Bar for his gallant conduct during the two sorties to Hanover. John Naunton Rowland was born in Cardiff on December 28 1919. He attended Cheltenham College before gaining a cadetship to the RAF College Cranwell. On the outbreak of the Second World War, his…
…war. The aerial of the ‘Monica’ tail-warning radar can be seen protruding below the rear turret of JB781. WW2 Today After a period in hospital, Reid went to C Flight 617 (“Dambuster”) Squadron at Woodhall Spa in January 1944 and flew sorties to various targets in France. In July 1944,…
…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…
…by some indigenous tribal members in a canoe. They took him in their ten-man canoe to an Australian coast watcher’s location, a journey of several hours. Late in the war, he supported operations at Iwo Jima and Okinawa. After the war, he stayed on in the military, but was not…
…Legion of Merit RN, whose submarine experience included HMS/Ms NARWHAL, URSULA, H32 & H43 (twice falsely alerted to the departure of Scharnhorst and Gneisenau to sit off BREST), UTMOST (about three war patrols, including his first DEPTH CHARGING at XMAS,1941 as they lay below, counting 40 to 50 explosions close…
…70 miles off the Norfolk coast, where they were rescued by two minesweepers. Model of Stalag Luft III in which Bob Braham was held as a prisoner of war. Shortly after that, the team broke up. Braham was shot down and ended the war as a prisoner; Gregory continued staff…
…significant forthcoming World War Two anniversaries might prove embarrassing – and fresh funds were allocated to the dwindling number of War Widows: the campaign had succeeded. With both Tangmere and the War Widows Pensions on a more secure footing, and a core of legendary World War Two pilots having already…
…Luftwaffe threw a party for him before he was sent to Stalag Luft III to sit out the rest of the war…or so his captors presumably thought. ALLIED PRISONERS OF WAR IN GERMANY, 1939-1945 (HU 1605) Squadron Leaders Robert Stanford Tuck and Roger Bushell (Big X) in Stalag Luft III,…
…the renowned German theologian Dietrich BONHOEFFER, was chosen to represent the opposition and GERMAN RESISTANCE MOVEMENTS against Nazism, which too often would be forgotten during and after the war. Post-war many Christians have been engaged in the process of re-examining the role of the Church in Germany during the Nazi…
…stupendous. I found it took me many hours to reach a point where I was personally satisfied with the initial burst of content, in terms of populating a signatory’s page with words, photos, art from the wonderful Imperial War Museum collection, videos and so on. (Sometimes it took a lot…
“About 30 planes dropped about 90 bombs on us.” ‘Aircraftwoman Avis Hearn was one of only six Women’s Auxiliary Air Force to be honoured with the Military Medal in World War Two. She was called “4’11” of courage.” A CH (CHAIN HOME) RADAR STATION ON THE EAST COAST’ (1946) by…
…resistance, are equally distinguished. Along the way, Alan made sure to add the less glamorous – but equally important – players in the extraordinary and historic drama of the Second World War: the Shadwell fireman, a WW1 veteran policeman and Air Raid Warden, widows, ground crew… Unsung heroes whose service,…
“Gillam promptly shot it down. It was the fastest air victory of the war, and probably of all time” Fastest Victory by Robert Taylor Taking his Hurricane off from Speke, a raiding JU88 crossed the airfield in front of Denys Gillam, who promptly shot it down. It was the fastest…
…Section during Second World War. First experiences in Europe; first sight of snow; reactions from British people and their ignorance about the West Indies; encountering poor White people. Rescue missions to recover pilots from water; danger of military service and casualties; return to Jamaica at the end of the War;…
…encountered difficulties and his friend, the former wartime RAF fighter pilot Ian Smith, the Prime Minister of Rhodesia, employed him as an aviation operations officer. He retired in 1982. He returned to Britain in 1987 and settled in Nottingham. During the war, Johnny Gibson married Ethel Formby, sister of George,…
…area during World War II. John W. Cox as commander of a remarkable flight crew, wrote of their tour of duty during the war, starting with their training. They were part of the FIRST BOMBING ATTACK on TOKYO since the Doolittle raid in 1942, then on to the end of…
THE ROYAL NAVY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR. Tea-time in one of the 16 inch gun turrets on board HMS RODNEY. The gun captain and some of his crew are ready to drop their tea and biscuits and be at their stations in a second. ‘THE ROYAL NAVY DURING THE…
…before the Americans entered the war and yet was used as the background falsified plot for the Hollywood film U-571 as though this operation had been an American success, formally denounced on 3rd March 1999 as “an affront to British sailors”. The real U-571 was never involved at all and…
…PORT CONSTRUCTION and REPAIR GROUPS-in FRANCE, BELGIUM and GERMANY, at the war’s end, he became British Member for the Central Rhine Commission, interestingly dating right back to the 1815 Treaty of Vienna, after Waterloo. Post war he worked both nationally and internationally as a specialist on RAILWAYS and INLAND TRANSPORT….