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…William Thomas Rawlinson © IWM ART LD 5735 ‘Hearn worked at R.A.F. Poling radar station, which was one of the premier radar stations on the south coast plotting high flying enemy aircraft. The Chain Home East Coast Early Warning Radio Station at Poling, Sussex, 1945. On the left are three…
…then floated into the North Sea and eventually along the English Channel. The searching ships and aircraft failed to locate it, and the crew’s attempts to paddle ashore were ineffective. Finally, after three days drifting in the bad November weather, Ercolani and his men were washed up on the southernmost…
…in the MV Eastern City, but was not called into action. After converting to the Typhoon fighter, he joined 197 Squadron on the south coast to fly defensive patrols and bomber escort missions. In late 1943 he headed for India and joined 67 Squadron at Alipore, flying Hurricanes in defence…
…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…
…with the squadrons in the south. He was also required to establish a night-fighting capability with the Hurricane; a task he achieved with great success. Few enemy night bombers fell victim to single-seat fighter pilots, but Dalton-Morgan, hunting alone, destroyed no fewer than six. Totes Meer (Dead Sea) 1940-1 Paul…
…sailed to join Carrier Support Group 2, which was staging in the Marshalls to support the invasion of the Marianas. The Gambier Bay supported the landings at Saipan in June, and then Guam in August and at Southern Palaus in September before joining the Escort Carrier Task Unit off Leyte…
…many of her friends in the Vught Camp in the south of the country and also Auschwitz. ‘In the Province of Brabant only one of the eight civic leaders survived the war and “helping an Allied soldier carried the death penalty”, with ever present dangers and the fear of betrayal….
…Pas de Calais and in June Hitler unleashed the V1 assault on London and the south of England. The V2s began to fall on London in September. V2 Damage at the Chelsea Pensioners’ Hospital, London, SW3 by Randolph Schwabe (1945) Copyright: Art.IWM ART LD 4807 In the meantime, Constance Babington…
…Twiss had moved to Australia, led eventually to the shipment of the new interferometer to New South Wales, where it was erected in a suitably remote spot at Narrabri. Hanbury Brown had been appointed Professor of Radio-Astronomy at Manchester University in 1960. After taking several years leave in Australia to…
…Cdr Flying at Gardermoen. Gen Christie became Commandant of the RNoAF Staff College and was NATO’s Cdr Allied TAF North Norway in Jan68 and Cdr AAF South Norway in May71.’ [ARP] Werner Christie (left) instructing fellow Norwegian pilots Erik Hagen and Bjørn Ræder at RAF Catterick in 1942. (Public domain)…
…from the south because three separate major assaults on Cassino were necessary, the first by 2nd NZ Corps in February and the second by the 2nd NEW ZEALAND and 4th INDIAN DIVISION in March, followed by the flanking FRENCH CORPS before the final sustained POLISH 2nd CORPS attack began on…
…survived submarine and air attacks before joining Force `K’ in early 1940, searching for German commerce raiders in the South Atlantic. The ship and her aircraft then played an active part throughout the Norway Campaign. Afterwards, Gick served ashore for a few months as a flying instructor before joining 825…
…BRITISH NURSING STAFF particularly in LONDON during and beyond the BLITZ. Born in 1919 and from Crynant, a village near Neath, South Wales, Mary began nursing at Ongar Cottage Hospital and then Savernake, Wiltshire before the full three and a half year training at King’s Denmark Hill in March 1938…
‘holding fire to the last minute as we flashed past each other less than 50 feet apart I caught a glimpse of a puff of white – and there was the 110 on its back with a parachute opened behind it.’ (1943-1944) Wing Commander R P Beamont, wing leader…
…SOUTH EAST ASIA COMMAND SEAC Newspaper, which was such an important foundation of the revitalisation of “The Forgotten Army, Navy and Air Force” and sustaining their self-confidence and morale moving from the defensive to the offensive – when the changing conveniences of post war politics found power swinging to the…
…also was the unveiling of the new Cenotaph with King George V, as Chief Mourner scattering French soil, specially brought over from France, over the coffin as it was laid to rest. The Verdun had been laid up for 17 years and after some south and north convoys out of…
…anchor, called kedging. Early in 1944 Tom was promoted to command his own LC 2233, an American-built LCT, at age 23, which had a crew of twelve with one other officer, a coxswain, two stokers, a signalman and six seamen. Three of these would set sail down south and round…
…He then described the major offensive south-west of Bapaune later that month when tanks went into action. It was an incredible sight. We were going to win the war! All the infantry chaps were moving cheering the tanks. We saw no German aircraft. We dominated the skies – the infantry…
…29 Squadron where Braham became a flight commander. In December 1942 Braham, aged only 22, received command of No 141 Squadron at Ford on the south coast; Gregory, at 29 the old man of the team, stayed with him. One moonlit night, Gregory and most of the squadron aircrew were…
…Mrs Wendy BRYAN+ (née HULL) Wife of COMMANDO Captain Gerald BRYAN CMG CVO OBE MC (BATTLE of LITANI RIVER). In memory of her two RHODESIA & SOUTH AFRICA brothers killed, Robin (ARMY) & Squadron Leader Caesar HULL DFC BATTLE OF BRITAIN, OC: 43(F) HURRICANE Squadron & 263 GLADIATOR Squadron NORWAY…
…the FANY #24 Eric COLEMAN Superintendent Eric COLEMAN As Hampshire police constable, took the badly wounded & burned Flight Lieutenant James ‘Nick’ Nicolson VC (see Muriel Nicolson, q.v.) to Southampton Hospital on 23rd August, 1940, in an Albion lorry. #183 Lady CURRAN Lady CURRAN (née Joan STROTHERS) Welsh scientist who…