69 results found for: Winter Line (Aka Gustav Line, Breaking of)
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…right men & materials to complete the whole project on time. “Reconstruction” (2014) from the Atomic Landscapes Series by Susanna Stromborg. Copyright Susanna Stromborg. “Now I am become Death, destroyer of worlds…” “The line, from the Hindu sacred text the Bhagavad-Gita, has come to define Robert Oppenheimer, but its meaning…
…1919. BRITISH MAURICE-FARMAN AEROPLANE APPROACHING, ATTACKED BY ENEMY FOKKER by Richard C Carline (1919) © IWM ART6349 Flying Above Kirkuk, Kurdistan by Sydney William Carline, 1919 © Art.IWM ART 4637 Ypres Seen from an Aeroplane by Richard C Carline (Art.IWM ART 6342) An aerial view of the heavily bomb-damaged town…
…the Allied lines, they were joined by four others, including two American pilots. On April 9 1945 the two men, with four other escapers, were met by a young man who led them to the River Waal. They reached the bank in darkness and rowed across the river in a…
…3rd CARABINIERS, PRINCE of WALES’s DRAGOON GUARDS; this REGIMENT uniquely spent entire WW2 in INDIA & FAR EAST, their battle honours – IMPHAL, NUNSHIGUMO BISHENPUR, KANGLATONGBI, KENNEDY PEAK SCHWEB0 SAGAING, MANDALAY AVA & IRRAWADDY; sent into front line Dec43 to IMPHAL with INDIAN support mechanics, their long, varied training on…
…SQUADRON (Lt Cdr J G BALDWIN DSC RN) in HMS VICTORIOUS (Leyte Gulf 26 Apr 1945) and was then on the other TASK FORCE 37 to 11 Auq 1945 – this was the rotation of the Third and Fifth Fleet for intense combat duty periods in the front line forward…
…successors to the BBC’s first war correspondent, Richard Dimbleby, he was able to report the successes beyond El Alamein from further forward and by his reporting gained the trust of the front line soldiers, staff and General Montgomery. Frank Gillard remained with the Eighth Army to cover the later landings…
“Captain Dickie Annand, who died on Christmas Eve aged 90, won the Army’s first Victoria Cross of the Second World War when serving with the 2nd Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, in Belgium in May 1940. Dickie Annand VC On May 15, 2 DLI was in a defensive position on…
…Sea between the Japanese main force and Task Force 38, Surigao Strait, the biggest surface action since Jutland in 1916, history’s last battle-line action at sea between battleships, Cape Engano, the final sea action of Japanese aircraft carriers and their destruction by the US Third Fleet, and the BATTLE off…
…and RAILWAYS for SUPPLY of the ALLIED FRONT LINE combat troops and came from near Baltimore, Maryland, before joining Colonel KILLIAN’s 517 PORT BATTALION of the US 6th ENGINEER SPECIAL BRIGADE, with its 16 Battalions & constituents of Naval Beach, Chemical Decontamination, Medical, Ordnance, Quartermaster, Combat Engineers, Military Police, Grave…
…then, under continual fire, repaired another and personally manned it, gallantly holding his line until replacements arrived. A little later, with ammunition critically low and the supply lines cut off, Sgt. Basilone, at great risk of his life and in the face of continued enemy attack, battled his way through…
…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…
…born Uncle John QSM in lst Bn wounded Mar16 & MSM, Uncle James Sgt 6th Bn KIA at FESTUBERT 4 Jun 1918 aged 21, Uncle Albert Pte shell-shocked, Uncle John WILSON served in Egypt KIA 1Decl7): front line in Aug44 for the BATTLES of HOLLAND, REICHSWALD, RHINE CROSSING & GERMANY….
…for Burma, switched to MIDEAST threat) in 152 BRIGADE with some 2nd Bn CAMERONs (F.M.Auchinleck “Their name had become a legend”) & 5th & 2nd SEAFORTHS; fought at EL ALAMEIN with 2 PDR in ANTI-TANK SUPPORT & then 1,500 miles westwards, via the BATTLES of MARETH LINE, WADI AKARIT etc…
…her embonpoint. “You must have very large hands.” In 1949, Christabel Leighton-Porter appeared in the screen version of The Adventures of Jane, but once Pett moved to the Sunday Despatch in 1948 and “Jane” was taken over by Michael Hubbard, the strip itself began to decline in popularity. There was…
…DEFENCE, action PALESTINE, TUNISIA, CRETE, 8th ARMY, N. African MARETH Line, WADIS AKARIT & ZIGZAU #47 John HACKETT Gen Sir John ‘Shan’ HACKETT GCB CBE DSO* MC MA BLitt LLD DL distinguished scholar and author, KRI HUSSAR for PARACHUTE REGT, DESERT, ITALY, ARNHEM & DUTCH RESISTANCE #272 John AL HAMILTON…
…Expeditionary Force (2NZEF) during the Second World War (1939-45). A frontline infantry unit made up entirely of volunteers, the Battalion usually contained 700-750 men, divided into five companies. The NZ Division The NZ Division was made up of 15,000-20,000 men, divided into three infantry brigades (the 4th, 5th and 6th…
…all proceeds – to service benevolent charities; Finally, naturally, to some extent he was “passed along the line”, not unlike an underground resistance package, from one old boy or girl to another, one friend and signatory to another. The result: dozens upon dozens of signatures by people who didn’t do…
…OC 257 Sqns, Duxford & Biggin Hill Wgs. Representing PRISONERS of WAR & 50 Stalag Luft III Escapees killed, including ‘Big X’, 92 Sqn OC Squadron Leader Roger BUSHELL #208 AL WINSKILL Air Commodore Sir AL ‘Archie’ WINSKILL KCVO DFC* AE: 603 SQN,1st via PAT O’LEARY LINE to SPAIN/GIBRALTAR. led…
…92nd BOMBARDMENT GROUP, v. GERMAN Wurzburg-Riese, RADAR & JAMMING SPECIALIST; US ‘Mickey’ copy British H2S bombing radar. Representing SECRET ELECTRONIC COUNTERMEASURES WARFARE #208 AL WINSKILL Air Commodore Sir AL ‘Archie’ WINSKILL KCVO DFC* AE: 603 SQN,1st via PAT O’LEARY LINE to SPAIN/GIBRALTAR. led 232 Sqn to N.AFRICA, CFI CGS, OC…
…Medal Helped rescue 27 Allied ESCAPED AIRCREW, for COMET LINE, sister MICHOU GM & Andrée (Dedée) de JONGH. Captured & in RAVENSBRUCK MAUTHAUSEN (video) #174 Lorna ELLISON Mrs Lorna ELLISON (later COOMBS) One of two sisters who were ‘teenage sweethearts’ of the Czech Jan KUBIS and Slovak Josef GABCIK who…
…he’d had his eye on. The Battle of Britain Historical Society takes up the story: He then got the 110 in his sights, he lined it up and with his finger rock hard on the firing button blasted away at the bandit, his badly injured hand taking all the pain…