133 results found for: D-Day
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…as flight commander was a trial by fire; flying defence over Dunkirk on the 23rd of May 1940. He downed one Me109 and two ME110s on that first day, but his squadron lost five pilots including their squadron commander and flight commander. Tuck took command and led the squadron back…
…Caesar saying I haven’t seen you in a long time and why don’t you come to visit in Scotland, where he was posted. But when I got there I was told he had been moved to Tangmere that day. He died just three or four days later.” “All the superlatives…
…never to be seen again. The night seemed to last forever.” Norm Loats reflecting prior to speaking to young students During the second day, hope faded further. Desperate men drank sea water and became delirious, often swimming away never to be seen again. Sharks ate stragglers, and despite rescue planes…
…up to make a radio broadcast on Sunday 31 January 1943 during a weekend of celebrations of Hitler’s accession to power 10 years earlier. Hitler had cried off with a sore throat hours before, so to Goering fell the task, at 11 a.m., of telling the Germans what towering achievements…
…Captain and was nicknamed “VC Sahib.” In 1964 a medical examination revealed that a large black boil on his leg was, in fact, his body finally ejecting the bullet he had taken that day twenty years earlier. He was given the position of Aide De Camp (ADC) to the President…
…Mary had a full year in Edinburgh on midwifery and then returned to London. On night duties they would do three months on the trot with one day off every month and the pay was £18 compared with eight nights off for every seven for nurses in the mid 1990s….
…although the first in a jet. Frank McClean ‘shoots’ Tower Bridge The Day Tower Bridge Was So Rudely Violated (Veterans Today: Journal for the Clandestine Community) Christopher Draper shoots Tower Bridge April 1st, 1968, marked the 50th Anniversary of the Royal Air Force who were given half a…
…first Squadron, and Battle of Britain Day was born. We are also releasing the first of a series of small service-focussed Editions, a special “Battle of Britain 80 Edition” of 12 originals, to honour, commemorate, and pay tribute on the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Britain Memorial Day, 15th…
…ENGINES for ROYAL AIR FORCE GROUNDCREW here emphasises all the “RATS of TOBRUK”, many from Australia (where in the early 1990s nearly 5,000 were still members), who endured the 200 DAY SIEGE before striking out and joining up with NEW ZEALANDERS of EIGHTH ARMY at El Duda & El Adem…
…the three Border men near Hartenstein, with their mortar virtually vertical and in frequent use, in one of the war’s most famous photographs; his mortar pit is preserved to this day, as also his great praise to the spirit and gallant help of the local Dutch citizens of all ages….
…the page) and we’ll let you know when we’ve done more justice in writing up our extraordinary signatories. 392nd BOMB GROUP. Crewed with 125 and 127, formed and worked up in USA & flew from EAST ANGLIA bases. All returned for VE-Day 50th Anniversary Celebrations Representing USAAF LIBERATOR AIR GUNNERS…
…in writing up our extraordinary signatories. 466th BOMB GROUP crew gunner for 30 daylight mission tours over Occupied Europe; USAAF day & RAF night strategic bombing (which diverted thousands of 88mm guns to the defence of Germany, and an element thought to have saved many hundreds of thousands of lives)….
…elder brother, RAY, was a US NAVY enlisted PILOT, test flying TRANSPORTS (mainly S-2 Fs) after repair or rebuilds & delivering personnel & VIPs to AUSTRALIA & across the PACIFIC; Paul joined the day after Pearl Harbor (7Dec41) & completed his SAN DIEGO training 2Feb42, aged 17yrs, and was to…
…to the Newsletter (bottom of the page) and we’ll let you know when we’ve done more justice in writing up our extraordinary signatories. BUFFS/EAST SURREY INFANTRY, who had 11 subaltern OCs lost, killed or wounded, fighting from DESERT, SICILY and up through to NORTHERN.ITALY – a typical ‘D Day Dodger’!…
…the American Fleet would realise, how much better the well designed BRITISH ARMOURED DECKS coped with these attacks; like others in the crew, sang high praise for Cdr WHITFIELD’s role on the ship, the 60 days at sea with TWO DAYS in the COMBAT AREA and TWO DAYS out, and…
…neighbouring airfields, which would change history. Philip was in the 46th PURSUIT SQUADRON on the island of OAHU and one of the few pilots to actually fly in response to the attacks on that “day of infamy”. He received a Silver Star He flew many later combat missions, including a…
…tactics. The Hurricanes had quite high losses practising and perfecting the ideal anti tank profiles to suit the killing potential of the 40mm guns, particularly in the run up to and after El ALAMEIN. 24 October, 1942 was their most successful day, when 6 Squadron was credited with knocking out…
…Southlanders”. They toured the UK’s variety circuit as well as travelling to Italy, Germany, France and Belgium. Their speciality was rhythm and blues, and they worked alongside the popular artists of the day – Shirley Bassey, David Frost, Joe Loss, Frankie Vaughn, Cliff Richard and Tommy Steele to name but…
…Adm Ben BRYANT CB DSO** DSC RN) the job then too included some interesting SPECIAL FORCES del veries and RAIDP, some into ITALY and others in an area between Marseilles and Genoa – somewhere SW of SAVONA they watched the railway all day and then closed in to 400 yards…
…morning in 1944 when she first appeared nude, with inspiring the 36th Division to advance six miles through Normandy in a single day. “Jane” had first begun in 1932 as “Jane’s Journal – The Diary of a Society Girl”, a pocket cartoon drawn by Norman Pett, who used his wife…
…Corps, he crossed the Rhine from 43 (Wessex) positions on Sunday 24Sep44, frustrated, as some POLISH FORCES too, that he was unable to have crossed the previous day; once over, he went forward alone to parley with the Germans, under a Red Cross flag, but unsuccessfully to obtain safe passage…
…cope with waiting lists of people needing urgent care. Disabled people were at the bottom of the list of NHS priorities at the time. People were often left to manage on their own, or to rely on others to help them get through each day. The growth of services for…
…extra special attention by the Japanese attackers that day, 26th October, 1942. Roy’s entire Crew No.10 bailed out safely near Chuchow and, with help from Chinese soldiers and civilians, they made it through Chuksien to Chungking, as 64 from the 80 where Roy Stork and some others were awarded a…
…Vraciu had earned a private pilot’s license through the federal government’s Civilian PilotTraining Program. Relaxing at the home of his uncle in the Chicago suburbs that fateful Sunday in December, Vraciu remembered being as shocked as millions of other Americans were when they heard the news over the radio about…