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…Rockets. Keen to convince her, one officer went as far as to present Jeannie with full plans of the rockets, which she committed instantly to her photographic memory. As she stated, as if self-evident: “what’s the use of collecting information, if not to pass it on?” If there were to…
…on the flank of CONVOYS to guard agains the Tirpitz and Scheer coming out, which they did 5Jul but only briefly, then returning to defensive anchorages. He recalls the tragic Admiralty signals and plight of CONVOY PQ17 (23 of 34 ships that far north sunk, with 10 out of the…
…at 3,000 ft Quill decided to bail out. As he descended, the spiralling bomber seemed intent on slicing the pilot with its wings, but he landed safely not far from the Kingston bypass. There was some rivalry between Vickers (Aviation) Ltd and Hawker Aircraft, whose Hurricane had first flown four…
…in 1977. As a Law Lord, some liberal lawyers complained that he rarely dissented from the judgments of his more conservative colleagues, even in controversial cases where legal precedent was far from certain. There were complaints that, while Scarman made promising noises, when his judgments came out they were the…
…Unfortunately DZ “C” where the 506th landed was too far from their objective, by the time they arrived at the bridge, it had just been blown up by the Germans. On the second day’s advance his Captain would be killed by a sniper and Bill would be using his own…
…home – thank goodness because our turret jammed, the only real gun but we had a .30 calibre right on the nose but that wouldn’t frighten him. We all parachuted but one ‘chute didn’t open, so we lost one. We were lucky we were 70 miles or so, far enough…
…degrades over time – yellowing if not falling apart entirely. So far, it’s just been yellowing.” Susanna Stromborg’s website and Instagram: Susanna Travels. “Sir Samuel Curran was one of the elite group of British scientists who played a key role in several second world war developments, including radar and foe…
…[Signatory 12] and Caesar Hull [c.f Signatory #6] (sitting, far right in the photo), and the excellence and tight-nit nature of this group of pilots, was a factor in Lott’s thinking when he arrived to command. He won respect the hard way… His story is told in a fine collection…
…far reaching consequences to help ensure that the tide of losses in the Battle of the Atlantic would gradually be reversed at a most critical time for Britain’s very survival, with her reliance on the transatlantic supply artery for food and munitions. This epic achievement occurred a full seven months…
…fellow pilots took off from Argus and landed at Vaenga. Additional Hurricanes were shipped in crates and assembled on arrival in Russia. The primary role of the Hurricane pilots was to escort Soviet bombers on raids over Finnmark in north-eastern Norway and also to defend the Russian airfields. On October…
…blue, green and dark blue of the ARMY’s RQYAL CORPS of SIGNALS, by 1945 165.000 strong (9% ATS); war service from POLAND (his group was met by Gen. Carton de Wiart VC DS0, Belgian born, twice wounded in the Boer War, eye lost WW1 East Africa in 1914, then 8…
…He was awarded a DSO. In December 1944 he was seconded to BOAC, flying from Bristol. He remained with the airline after the war and flew routes to West Africa, the Middle East and to India. He was one of the first pilots to land at Heathrow Airport after its…
…London, but his training was incomplete when war broke out, so he qualified as an air gunner instead. Blenheim bombers attack enemy vessel, just east of Le Touquet by David Rowlands Peter first saw operations in a Bristol Blenheim Mk.I squadron, No.236, based at North Coates. In March 1940,…
…fly to becoming one of the heroes of the Battle of Britain in just three years. One of “The Few”, Lacey downed at least 28 enemy planes during World War Two and was a rare example of someone who served in the RAF on both the first and final day…
…first British “radio detection” technology three years earlier. ‘A CH (CHAIN HOME) RADAR STATION ON THE EAST COAST’ (1946) by William Thomas Rawlinson © IWM ART LD 5735 Fennessy played a part in the development of this system – later called radar as an acronym for “radio detection and ranging”…
…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….
…to south-east Poland, expecting to pick up Hurricanes that were being sent from the UK to Romania. This never happened. Assembling Hawker Hurricane Aircraft: swinging the compasses and making test flights (Art.IWM ART LD 3286) In mid-September Drobinski was ordered to go to Romania and he was interned there. He…
…formed to protect the Roval Dockyards from invasion and then through its 2nd Hampshire Artillery and Garrison Volunteers becoming 1st Wessex Royal Field Artillery for South Africa and in 1916 RA against the Turks in the Middle East in Dec 1916. His war service though does not just incorporate here…
…Poona) conversion to Gen GRANT Tanks. RETURN to MIDDLE EAST In mid 1943, embarking now as SQN QMS for Basra IRAQ, then ALEPPO in SYRIA, he had in Jul43 to disarm a mutinied Greek Brigade, before returning to EGYPT; ITALIAN FRONT On 4May44 as 2nd Troop C SQN leader, he…
…and then became partnered with Fg Off James ‘Ben’ Benson, on 15th February, 1942 having their first success at Acklington, a Dornier 217, which crashed four miles east of Blyth. For seven months they both instructed at 54 OTU Charterhall at the same time as Richard Hillary, the badly burned…
…squadron – was posted to No 108, also equipped with Hinds. In 1938, Holder sailed for the Middle East where he joined No 84, a Vincent biplane bomber squadron policing Iraq from Shaibah at the head of the Persian Gulf. In June 1939, he moved to Habbaniya in Iraq. Following…
…the Indian Army had a unique character. In 1945 the Indian Army achieved its finest hour, setting many proud traditions for the current Indian and Pakistani armies. Fighting alongside the Britons, Indians and Gurkhas, there were also East and West Africans, Burmese, Karens and Kachins, Americans and Canadians, and Chinese….
…until the end of the war, when he was granted a permanent commission. His later duties included commanding 56 squadron, flying Meteor jets, and staff appointments at HQ Fighter Command and HQ Signals Command. He retired from the RAF as a group captain in 1966, and took up farming in…
…American DFC. The son of a Wesleyan preacher, Bransome Arthur Burbridge was born on February 4 1921 in East Dulwich and educated at Alleyne’s Grammar School, Stevenage. He was working in the City of London on the outbreak of hostilities in September 1939. As a committed Christian and pacifist, he…