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…Wessex HAA Regiment ROYAL ARTILLERY and the 214 SOUTHSEA BATTERY signs for the key role under threat of GERMAN INVASION of the HEAVY ANTI AIRCRAFT REGIMENTS. Surprisingly the roots of this unit when re-embodied in 1939 went back to 5 May, 1860 ‘when the Corps of Artillery Volunteers (Garrison) was…
…of the page) and we’ll let you know when we’ve done more justice in writing up our extraordinary signatories. Recipient of the Victoria Cross. ED RAFVR also Scots, for COASTAL COMMAND; with 72 wounds & Navigator Bomb Aimer dead in crippled CATALINA, sank U-Boat before aircraft’s return to Sullom Voe….
…Newsletter (bottom of the page) and we’ll let you know when we’ve done more justice in writing up our extraordinary signatories. BOMBER Command FLIGHT ENGINEER, AIRCREW ASSOCIATION late Hon. Sec. for many years. Representing the role of WARTIME AIRCREW, of every aircraft, role and vintage, & AIR TRAINING CORPS …
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. Cpl Kenneth RUMBOLD as an AIRCRAFT FITTER…
…ESTABLISHMENT #41 George RF EDWARDS Sir George RF EDWARDS OM CBE FREng FRS DL For: wartime VICKERS-ARMSTRONG, Aircraft DESIGN and PRODUCTION, and British AVIATION INDUSTRY, later Chairman British Aircraft Corporation #274 George GILLARD Francis George ‘Frank’ GILLARD CBE Wat correspondent who witnessed and reported (Independent) on DIEPPE RAID, D-DAY, EIGHTH…
…of JAPANESE NAVY SHIPS, FOUR AIRCRAFT CARRIERS, a BATTLESHIP, 4 JEEP CARRIERS, 2 CRUISERS, 47 DESTROYERS, 40 FRIGATES, 23 SUBMARINES, 20 SUB-CHASERS, 3 SUB TENDERS, 5 SEAPLANE TENDERS, plus MINESWEEPERS, NET TENDERS, Large LANDING CRAFT, MTBs and MLs ete – the price of this success though was to be 3,505…
…transport aircraft of the US 1st Air Commando took off in the evening, each one towing two Waco gliders. 37 of these arrived at Broadway. 30 men were killed and 33 injured as the gliders bumped and swerved in the jungle clearing that first night. Almost all the gliders were…
…capture and escape to GB, 8/1941-12/1941. Aspects of operations commanding 165 Sqdn, No 11 Group, Fighter Command, RAF in GB, 4/1942-8/1942: formation of squadron at RAF Ayr, 4/1942; role escorting Soviet Foreign Minister Vycheslav Molotov’s aircraft on his visit to GB, 5/1942; how his association with agent/traitor Harold Coles resulted…
…WW2 RAF Group on Facebook During a patrol over Normandy a few days after D-Day (June 6), Liškutín’s Spitfire was hit by flak. This time, he managed to land on one of the newly constructed strips in Normandy. His was probably the first landing by an Allied aircraft after the…
…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…
…memories were of action stations on the RUSSIAN CONVOY protection up out of SCAPA, West of ICELAND & through the DENMARK STRAIT into the GREENLAND SEA, serving in CRUISER HMS BERWICK (complement c.700) in NORTHERN WATERS from 30 Jun 1942 and then in the AIRCRAFT CARR.IERS ILLUSTRIOUS, FORMIDABLE, and INDEFATIGABLE;…
“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…
…known friends who did not survive, indirectly symbolizes their service also at BASTOGNE and in the Battle of the BULGE. Trained at Camp Toccoa in Georgia and via the Tower at Fort Benning with five successful aircraft jumps to qualify for the paratrooper’s wings, In June, 1943 their unit became…
…his large RED CROSS displayed. His Father, ALBERT, in WW1 trenches, also was with the then ARMY SERVICE CORPS, with special skills breaking in and working their horses, and later with a ROYAL ARTILLERY HEAVY ANTI AIRCRAFT BATTERY in kWZ – in early 1940, illustrating Britain’s dire shortage of guns…
…ULITHI, the Tender USS Dixie and, as many other sailors then of half a dozen nationalities, enjoying 5 splendid days of LEAVE in SYDNEY UNITED STATES NAVY: built mid40-Jun45 82,000 LANDING CRAFT, 80,000 NAVAL AIRCRAFT (half lost), 10 BATTLESHIPS, 18 FLEET CARRIERS,. 45 heavy & light CRUISERS, 338 DESTROYERS &…
…and remembering the many Allied airmen and others they saved & returned by aircraft or submarine; also ALL the LOYAL OCCUPIED NATIVE PEOPLES and PACIFIC ISLANDERS and highlighting the FIJIAN troops & Commandos, who fought in the SOLOMONS, GUADALCANAL, NEW GEORGIA & VELLA LAVELLA, such as the outstanding gallantry &…
…aircraft at TAMET & Bill FRASER’S success against 37 CR42s on his return to AGEDABIA, deep behind the lines, often using synchronised bombing raids as cover; also on the audacious, abortive BENGHAZI RAID with the David STIRLING & Fitzroy MACLEAN party May42 & escaped the Germans (after being woken looking…
…years to his real birthdate, 27 Apr 1924, wearing silver buttons of Latymer School Air Defence Cadet Force as he turned up at RAF UXBRIDGE in Mar40 to be attested In July, then Bridgnorth & Blackpool, AIRCRAFT HANDLING & transfer to 600 SQN, as 16 yrs old AC2 receiving an…
…BERLIN AIRLIFT, here signing for the wider operations of the SOUTH AFRICAN AIR FORCE, its armed forces and strategic base facilities: post-war he became an early air missionary in Africa, the beginning of the Mission Air Fellowship, now with over 200 aircraft being flown in more than 25 countries worldwide….
…officer (NCO). HQ Company was made up of six specialist platoons: signals, anti-aircraft, mortars, Bren Gun Carriers, pioneers and transport. Reinforcements The main body of the Māori Battalion left New Zealand as part of 2NZEF’s 2nd Echelon in May 1940. To maintain its strength throughout the war, especially when heavy…
…a DFC and Bar in the space of five days during the Battle of France in 1940. David was just 21 at the time. The awards reflected his feat of destroying at least 11 enemy aircraft within a few days while covering the retreat of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF)….
…He was posted to an anti-aircraft battery in Dollis Hill, north London, but this he found insufficiently exciting. Early in 1941 he fell in with some Irish labourers who persuaded him to desert and accompany them to Glasgow. They gave him an identity card bearing the name of John Patrick…
…Crusader, 11/1941-12/1941; rescue of Special Air Service group. REEL 2: Continues: Major David Stirling’s decision to work with Long Range Desert Group; types of operations undertaken; the road watch; threat from German Air Force; technique for dispersal if attacked by aircraft; attitude of desert Arabs to Long Range Desert Group;…
…further 125 combat missions and added two more victories against Yak-9 aircraft to his total. For his service, he received a Silver Star, a Legion of Merit, DFC with 6 gold stars, an Air Medal with 16 gold stars and a Navy Commendation Medal. He retired from the Marine Corps…