62 results found for: U-Boats (Campaign)
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…at each other to worry about me in my Auster IV”. Later in the campaign, his tasks included aerial photography and flying agents to meet up with their contacts in the Netherlands. Neilson handed over command of his flight early in November 1944 having been selected to become the first…
…Eoka campaign, playing a key role in the division of the island. He was Mentioned in Dispatches for his efforts. In 1966 as a Group Captain he was aide-de-camp to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II before taking command of the RAF Regiment depot in Catterick and retiring from service in…
…own men had found it in a captured German tank which had apparently procured it from the Italians in a “swap.” Fred Rosier hardly let it out of his sight for the rest of his life. In one sense, he was lucky to be alive for the desert campaign. The…
…organised DESERT MOTOR AMBULANCE CONVOYS, helping part treated CASUALTIES back to the FORWARD FIELD HOSPITALS and extended for TWO YEARS right across the DESERT CAMPAIGNS (including. GREEK CAMPAIGN with 189 LIGHT FIELD & 24 CASUALTY CLEARING STATION at THEBES, where he was bombed off his motorbike and organised, against high…
…hard-fought contribution to the campaign in North-West Europe, in which he was advanced to Company Sergeant-Major and won his M.M. He returned to the U.K. in late March 1945 and was embarked for Palestine at the year’s end, where he served until April 1948 (Medal & clasp). Having then been…
…on the fine contribution of Maj Gen “Pete” Quesada and AM Broadhurst in further developing tactical air-ground warfare during the European campaign with microwave early warning radar (MEW) direction of ‘cab rank’ fighter bombers already airborne and close by, and placing pilots as forward air controllers inside tanks equipped with…
…AVIATION & DEVELOPMENT TEST FLYING #85 Alan BURN Lieutenant Alan BURN RNVR GUNNERY. Author of The Fighting Captain. Representing 15,000 RN (1/3 in ATLANTIC) CONVOYS and in memory of Captain Frederick J WALKER CB DSO*** & HMS STARLING (15 U-Boats sunk) #226 Jack CASEMORE Chief Petty Officer Jack CASEMORE RNVR…
…Battle of Britain VC, with a mind to fund-raising for the Tangmere museum, he realized that, signed by former pilots from The Battle of Britain, they could also raise funds for the War Widows Pension campaign – which he swiftly joined. By 1989, the Ministry of Defence and Whitehall were,…
…BOU TUNISIAN CAMPAIGN as L/Cpl “influenced whole course of battle” with BREN GUN & great courage. #146 Ganju LAMA Captain Ganju LAMA VC MM Recipient of the Victoria Cross. lst/7th GURKHAS, ADC to INDIA’s President, Rifleman at Milestone 33 destroyed 2 Jap tanks by PIAT 16May44 & 2 brilliant PIAT…
…one… “Delighted to see your ugly mug on all the front pages for such a good reason.” Alan Pollock, driving Muriel to the Inauguration of the Tangmere Military Aviation Museum, which he had been instrumental in helping to found, learned of this, and the War Widows Pension Campaign led by…
…his instrumental role in the founding of Tangmere Military Aviation Museum. After that success, he turned his energies to concentrate on supporting the (successful) War Widows Pension Campaign: After success on both those fronts, he concentrated, charitably, on an approach that would donate all profits – at least half of…
…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…
…War Widows campaign leader Mrs Iris STRANGE++ & all WAR WIDOWS #169 Stanislaw ZURAKOWSKI Lieutenant Colonel Stanislaw ZURAKOWSKI PR KR + 2nd Polish Corps & as a cadet in 16th Rifles Lviv fought in 17May44 BATTLE of MONTE CASSINO & Representing POLISH ARMY’S prowess there & elsewhere, & in memory…
210 Lieutenant Hemi ‘Himi’ WIREMU MBE for all (especially long term i.e. 4-5yr) PRISONERS of WAR, and also for the rapidly formed, quickly sent NEW ZEALAND MAORI BATTALION & the ANZAC part in the necessary GREEK CAMPAIGN, where (as some other countries as Norway for obvious political reasons, which really…