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Pilots of No. 43 Squadron RAF based at Wick, Caithness, standing in front of one of the unit’s Hawker Hurricane Mark Is. Left to right: Sergeant J Arbuthnot, Sergeant R Plenderleith, Sergeant H J L Hallowes, Flying Officer J W Simpson, Flight Lieutenant Peter W Townsend [Signatory #12], Pilot Officer…
…in order to provide the information on which the British could base their strategy for handling unexploded bombs. In the first year of the war the life expectancy of a BD officer was about 10 weeks. In 1940 Flying Officer Rowlands was posted to the Air Ministry to join T…
…area during World War II. John W. Cox as commander of a remarkable flight crew, wrote of their tour of duty during the war, starting with their training. They were part of the FIRST BOMBING ATTACK on TOKYO since the Doolittle raid in 1942, then on to the end of…
…encountered difficulties and his friend, the former wartime RAF fighter pilot Ian Smith, the Prime Minister of Rhodesia, employed him as an aviation operations officer. He retired in 1982. He returned to Britain in 1987 and settled in Nottingham. During the war, Johnny Gibson married Ethel Formby, sister of George,…
…eye in combat on 9 July 1940), F/L RC Reynell and S/L CB Hull DFC (South African).“ Just three hours after this photograph of eight Hurricane pilots from 43 Squadron ‘relaxing’ outside the Officer’s Mess at Tangmere was taken on 7 September 1940 – a week before Battle of Britain…
…in 1939 to No 87 Squadron, which was exchanging Gloster Gladiator biplanes for Hurricane fighters. When war broke out, 87 Squadron was sent to France, one of only four Hurricane squadrons in the air component of the BEF. After experiencing the ennui of the “phoney war” in the winter of…
“Gillam promptly shot it down. It was the fastest air victory of the war, and probably of all time” Fastest Victory by Robert Taylor Taking his Hurricane off from Speke, a raiding JU88 crossed the airfield in front of Denys Gillam, who promptly shot it down. It was the fastest…
…SIGNALS speciality, becoming Flag Lt 4th CRUISER SON and here is primarily to represent the Royal Navy’s participation in the PACIFIC WAR, the vital development of interoperable CODES and SIGNALS procedures and his close appreciation of the top US and British naval commanders in the Pacific War and, through his…
…PORT CONSTRUCTION and REPAIR GROUPS-in FRANCE, BELGIUM and GERMANY, at the war’s end, he became British Member for the Central Rhine Commission, interestingly dating right back to the 1815 Treaty of Vienna, after Waterloo. Post war he worked both nationally and internationally as a specialist on RAILWAYS and INLAND TRANSPORT….
…whose brilliant, vital Knickebein work leading to The Battle of the Beams, developed ‘chaff’, and his ‘SCIENTIFIC WAR’ work, when so young, impressed CHURCHILL’s TEAM, involved in many critical WW2 decisions. His book, Most Secret War: British Scientific Intelligence 1939-1945, formed the basis of the TV series The Secret War….
…in writing up our extraordinary signatories. WAR WIDOW of Wing Commander James NICOLSON VC DFC (the only RAF Fighter VC: 72 & 249 Squadrons, TURBINLITE, OC 27 Squadron BEAUFIGHTER operations over BURMA, (killed 2May45) ditched 355 Sqn Liberator. Representing War Widows campaign leader Mrs Iris STRANGE++ & all WAR WIDOWS…
…in his team to gain experience. Don remained in the Air Force after the war and led the 27th Fighter Wing in Korea with F-84F Thunderjets and also served in Vietnam before retiring to Florida in 1965. Modest about his wartime achievements, he avoided publicity and shunned would be biographers….
…G. HOGAN MBE An “intrepid Chindit officer who was captured and sentenced to death in Burma’s post-war rebellion but escaped to marry his sweetheart…embodied the potent combination of derring-do and determination that typified the Chindit Long Range Penetration brigades in Burma during the Second World War.” (The Times). Half Irish…
…many critical WW2 decisions. His book, Most Secret War: British Scientific Intelligence 1939-1945, formed the basis of the TV series The Secret War. #150 Chrystabel LEIGHTON-PORTER Mrs Chrystabel ‘Jane’ LEIGHTON-PORTER Model for the Daily Mirror’s legendary ‘Jane’ cartoon, the petite blonde pin-up darling of a nation at war, drawn brilliantly…
Alan Pollock’s Rough Notes: A work in progress – the fuller biographies will emerge in due course: please sign up 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. WOMEN’S WAR WORK; AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS WARDENS,…
…represents the necessary expansion of Royal Naval MINESWEEPING Operations, which were so important not just during the war but well beyond into ‘peacetime’ dangerous operations to safeguard shipping in national and international waters. About one in five minesweepers were lost and Peter served on 11 of them, witnessing at close…
…rebel Raschid Ali. When, following his Baghdad coup in April 1941, Ali attempted to seize the base which accommodated No 4 Flying Training School, Wing Commander Holder was the station’s senior administrative officer. “AUDAX – AN R.A.F. ‘PLANE OF PRE-WAR DAYS NOW USED AS A TRAINER. © IWM CH 8824…
…in memory of his close friends Josef Frantisek, Otmar Kucera, and Otto Smik and, of course, as a representative for all CZECHOSLOVAKS who died in war, including 511 Czechoslovak airmen who were killed. Josef Frantisek by Cuthbert Orde (1940). A close friend of Tony Liskutin, Frantisek was a legendary Czech…
…Group. He ended the war in command of Coltishall fighter sector. Dunn had a lively post-war career, alternating staff appointments with instructing and overseas postings. In 1950 he was appointed CBE for his “imaginative” and “praiseworthy” role co-ordinating anti-terrorist operations in Malaya. By 1956 he was in charge of the…
Obituary courtesy of and published by the Telegraph. Wing Commander Pat Gibbs, who has died aged 92, was awarded a DSO, DFC and Bar during the Second World War, then served as The Daily Telegraph’s fiercely independent film critic for more than 25 years. Gibbs specialised in torpedo attacks against…
…of the Japanese forces in Kowloon, served during the Palestine conflict and arrested the ringleaders of an attempted coup in Ceylon. For most of 1944 Barker was a member of the War Cabinet Plans team making preparations for the forthcoming invasion of Normandy, for which his expertise as an Army…
…20th March 1946 as Polish Liaison Officer. He was released in 1948 as a Squadron Leader. Battle of Britain at Madame Tussaud’s (1969) by British Pathe CU Wax work of Adolf Hitler at Madame Tussauds. CU Hand holding cigar. Pan up to wax work of Sir Winston Churchill. CU Churchill’s…
…Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) in Edinburgh, where he was appointed Scottish secretary. He worked for the RICS for 19 years, moving to the London headquarters office in 1953. After the war he retained close links with the TA and formed No 666 (Scottish) AOP Squadron, which he commanded…
…probably destroyed the Junkers. Two weeks later he shared in the destruction of a Dornier bomber. John Francis Durham Elkington, always known as “Tim”, was born in Warwickshire on December 23 1920 and educated at Bedford School. He gained a cadetship to the RAF College Cranwell, where he trained as…