68 results found for: Sicily (Invasion)
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…Enola Gay dropping the atomic bomb on 6th August 1945 and. Bockscar’s sortie three days later. These attacks, coupled to the Soviet invasion of Manchuria on 9 August 1945, brought about the Japanese surrender and the official end of World War II. Following Japan’s surrender on V-J Day, B-29s were…
…most dramatic and dangerous work. Based along the East Coast in ports such as FELIXSTOWE, Yarmouth etc, with their PACKARD petrol engines, MTBs and MGBs were more vulnerable than the German diesel E-Boats. Cdr Donald BRADFORD’s 55th FLOTILLA was given the honour of leading the INVASION FLEET in on D-DAY….
…of the British Constabulary. captured on a mission in SUPPORT of the AMERICAN INVASION of GUADALCANAL after Aug42, who, savagely tortured and bayoneted to chest & throat, refused to give any information, was left for dead, lashed to a tree, by the Japs but freed himself, amazingly regaining American lines…
…MULBERRY HARBOURS project, allowing this “ENGINEERING MIRACLE” to provide that necessary STRATEGIC SURPRISE for the NORMANDY INVASION; 6,500 vehicles & 40,000 tons of stores would be landed a week; this project started with one of the war is famous, succinct official letters, from Prime Minister Winston CHURCHILL at 10 Downing…
…support the Normandy invasion. Comprising 29 squadrons, mainly of Spitfires, Typhoons and Mustangs, the group was associated mainly with the First Canadian Army during the 1944/5 campaigns and Rosier – now a Group Captain – worked in the Group Control Centre, moving forward regularly as the armies advanced, and remained…
…after DUNKIRK and during the INVASION SCARE period, his Battery used dummy tree trunks, camouflaged as guns, to expand their armament! His Uncle JOHN, 28 when WW1 broke out, won a MILITARY MEDAL too with the INFANTRY – he had a large silver plate on the top of his skull,…
…times wounded and VC 1918; active WW2 inc.POW escape & Churchill’s Chiang Kai-shek adviser!) during the German invasion Sep39, serving then in the BATTLE of FRANCE, with the 9th LANCERS in NORTH AFRICA, the KRRC, 3 DIV and 1 DIV, up into AUSTRIA, on to valuable work in Northern IRELAND,…
…– the destruction of the heavy-water plant in the Telemark region west of Oslo. Poulsson, born at Tinn in Telemark, had just joined the army at the time and fled to Britain after the debacle that followed the German invasion in 1940. This culminated in a chaotic allied withdrawal and…
…CANADIAN ARMY and commemorative replicas of the DIVISIONAL MEMORIAL stand at Rough Tor in CORNWALL. Wynard’s Gap in SOMERSET and in MERE, WILTSHIRE. The Division was reformed at the outbreak of WW2 and trained largely in Kent initially against the threat of invasion, delayed by the storms in the English…
…before having to take part in thetragic delivery into slaughter of so many CANADIANS, as they were lowered into their LANDING CRAFT at DIEPPE; then TRAINING APPRENTICES (16-21 yr olds). Frank was a DUTY OFFICER at the ROYAL NAVAL BASE on 5/6th JUNE, as the INVASION FLEET went; appointed to…
…work on the Atlantic convoy routes, Vindex was part of the covering force for the Normandy invasion in June 1944. In August the ship was part of the escort for a convoy to Russia and its return in September. By the time Gick left the ship in October, his aircraft…
…with LCTs on board in the PACIFIC, from HONOLULU in Jan 45 for the RE-INVASION of the PHILIPPINES, their part being the taking of ZAMBOANGA at the western tip of MINDANAO, not without quite a few casualties – by the end of March, Corregidor, Manila, Iwo Jima, Lashio & Mandalay…
…of the Japanese forces in Kowloon, served during the Palestine conflict and arrested the ringleaders of an attempted coup in Ceylon. For most of 1944 Barker was a member of the War Cabinet Plans team making preparations for the forthcoming invasion of Normandy, for which his expertise as an Army…
…Fighter Command, Bentley Priory, Stanmore, GB, 3/1943-9/1943: duties; attitude to work; planning for invasion of Europe. Aspects of period as staff officer with No 2 Group, 2nd Tactical Air Force, RAF at Bylaugh Hall, GB, 9/1943-1/1944: duties; use of knowledge of German strategy and tactics; development of tactics. Recollections of…
…CRT presentation screen. At the beginning of September 1940, at a time when Great Britain faced a Nazi invasion, the Tizard Mission, composed of eminent British scientists, arrived in America. The Mission carried the latest British researches on jet engines, the uranium (atomic) bomb, predictors, proximity fuses, rockets, radar, and…
…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…
…Murphy as Gabcik, and Jamie Dornan as Kubis. The Shropshire sisters and their role do not feature, but author John appears in the credits as “Man at Assassination”. Kubis and Gabcik fled to Britain after the German invasion of their homeland, and while stationed in the grounds of Cholmondeley Castle…
…RAF Aircraft Fitter, 39 SQN BLENHEIMS and MARYLANDS, Representing 2,400 people in 15 RAF SERVICING COMMANDO UNITS (his: No. 3232, formed in MID-EAST and served MALTA, ITALY: SICILY, REGGIO & SALERNO) #49 Alan C DEERE Air Commodore Alan C DEERE DSO OBE DFC* DFC (US) Croix de Guerre (17+ e/a)…
…ARMY campaign, BATTLE for CAEN, etc. BBC BROADCASTING WAR REPORTING, DIEPPE RAID, N.AFRICA ,SICILY, ITALY to SALERNO, NORMANDY to US/SOVIET ELBE meeting & BERLIN #153 Douglas R GODFREY Mr Douglas R GODFREY (father Metro Vickers engineer & mother a WWI NURSE & WW2 WVS), for A.V.ROE WOODFORD’s 1st 30, ROY…
…could only start when an invasion meant it was already almost too late, particularly without strong local air power) 10:1 Luftwaffe: RAF highlighted the Germans’ AIR SUPERIORITY; however the value of the critical two months’ delay to BARBAROSSA was highly significant and greatly assisted “General Winter” to SAVE RUSSIA. The…