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…at night to fire at and hit a locomotive, which then set fire to a long area from the 5,000 volt system – the excellent group photograph, with Lts LAKIN and DEVLIN among the SAFARI CREW, arriving home at TROON, after 4 more operational patrols in the dangerous waters of…
…would be given a machine gun whose owner had been killed. Some naval bombardment shelling also blew several more than ten feet but fortunately without injury. Scattered over COTENTIN nothing that much was possible until the second night and fairly quickly their company had no more than 40 left and…
…intact. Throughout that winter No 617 attacked precision targets, including the V-1 flying bomb sites in the Pas de Calais. On the night of February 12 1944 Curtis took off on his twelfth sortie with Martin. The target was the Antheor viaduct on the vital coastal rail link between Italy…
…aid kit, pair of jungle boots, pair of hockey boots (for wearing at night), water bottle, mess tin and jungle ration pack (consists of cheese, jam, biscuits, ginger pudding, steak, liver and bacon, tea, sugar, milk, sweets, chewing gum, toilet paper, salt and one paludrine tablet) © IWM MAL 300….
…it over the bows. “I never expected to get the VC,” Gould said. “When we came down from the casing that night, we were soaking wet.” All the Captain said was: `You’d better get yourselves dried’.” Mackenzie did not make much of the “bombs incident” in his patrol report, merely…
…CHADWICK & WAR WINNING 156,000 LANCASTER sorties #196 Robert HANBURY BROWN Professor Robert HANBURY BROWN FRS AK Born in India, astronomer & physicist. Part of Sir Robert Watson-Watt’s original RADAR team (1937-42), helping develop first airborne radar for night-fighting & detecting ships and submarines. “Without his discovery, the range of…
…Johnny Gibson In 1943 he went with 15 Squadron to New Georgia as operations officer. Subsequently, he commanded and led the squadron, equipped with Corsair fighters. In the heavy fighting of the Bougainville Pacific landings, he destroyed a Japanese Zeke fighter on January 23 1944. After again returning to Europe,…
…the Canadian Hospital & Casualty Evacuation’s importance beyond D-Day. Representing all the Nursing Services. She spoke of how important for morale were the close local links with the British people, particularly in the run up to the savage fighting on and beyond D-Day, when speedy Casualty Evacuation was another unsung…
…of Calcutta. In early 1944 Elkington was given early promotion to work at the Air Fighting Development Unit, which played a crucial role in developing tactics and testing captured enemy fighters. During the year he spent with the unit, based at RAF Amarda Road in north-east India, he realised that…
…autobiography ‘Nine Lives‘… Daniel Rarity’s excellent video “Kiwi Combat Heroes Part One: Alan C Deere”, with computer recreations of some major fighting Daniel Rarity colourisation Alan and NZ Ambassador Alan Deere & his Spitfire Kiwi 1! One of Alan’s Luftwaffe foes Portrait of Alan Deere Kiwin 1 downed in Normandy…
…time radio. Pan to Alvar Lidell. SV Vera Lynn with family listening to radio. SV Interior bomber. He called at the Aliens Office to obtain a British passport. “You will have to wait five years” he was told by a civil servant. “But I have been fighting with the RAF…
…COMMONWEALTH & ALLIED naval personnel ASHORE and AFLOAT who manned or supported the EAST INDIES and then BRITISH PACIFIC FLEETS, fighting on for the EXTRA 99 DAYS beyond VE-DAY to JAPAN’s SURRENDER. His service (his father, a builder, served with COASTAL H.A.C.) was in RN SUPPLY BRANCH but his key…
…fighter. Soon afterwards he was given command of No 249 Squadron. After the war he was heavily involved in the evacuation of civilians during the bloody fighting in the Dutch East Indies, then attended the Army staff college course. He had a two-year spell as Air Attaché in Brussels before…
…at Mildenhall, Cambridgeshire. He earned a Distinguished Service Order for his leadership at this time. The citation reads: Squadron Leader Kellett as commander of his squadron has built up and trained his personnel to such a fine fighting pitch that no fewer than 113 enemy aircraft have been destroyed in…
…continuous fighting, David was now exhausted. He slept in a pigsty – all the accommodation that was available – and then was shot down. He crash-landed safely and was flown home, where his mother put him to bed. He slept for 36 hours. William Dennis David was born on July…
…the lunatic asylum, who came out wearing nightshirts and shouting: “Hello Tommy!” ‘Parachutes open overhead as waves of paratroops land in Holland during operations by the 1st Allied Airborne Army. September 1944 On arrival at Oosterbeek, they came under fire from enemy 88 mm anti-tank guns. Dauncey led a fighting…
…5 days hard fighting, surrounded & all ammunition spent; to POW CAMPO 29 nr PIACENZA in ITALY. After ITALIAN SURRENDER of 8 Sep 1943 and escape, he made a long successful 3 month WINTER EVASION to ROME (9Dec43) & chose to work with a pro ALLIED ITALIAN INTELLIGENCE Organisation, allowing…
…in NORTH AFRICA including SOUK el ARBA, TAMERA, Djebel Mansour and SICILY’s PRIMOSOLE / CATANIA, then later at ARNHEM by Dakota drop, with take-off from Bourn, where he was shot, part saved on capture by being unsupported well forward, fighting, as always, “with a Thompson machine gun and a Colt…
…Exercise Red Flag in Nevada – a valuable “war fighting” exercise. A squadron of Buccaneers was selected as the first non-US squadron to participate. The event was a resounding success and RAF squadrons have participated every year since. Evans’s final appointment was as Vice Chief of the Defence Staff (Personnel…
…machine guns with Pom-poms and Oerlikons added; after a tremendous fighting, damage and survival record as PENELOPE of the MALTA CONVOY RUN, with 8 battle honours and sharing the sinking of 23 enemy vessels (2 Italian destroyers, 1 German armed trawler and 6 landing ships, plus 2 tankers, 13 merchant…
…savage fighting for Walcheren, his most frightening experience. There wasn’t very much support because the weather was so bad, making this his fastest ever landing onto the beachhead and a rapid withdrawal under German 88mm fire. Reverting to the Invasion Fleet for Normandy Tom said: “Almost the whole of that…
…fighter ace who was decorated for gallantry while fighting for the Royal Air Force © IWM LD 421 The other close friend for whom Tony Liskutin signed in memory, Otmar Kucera, who died in 1991 Memorial to Tony’s friend Otto Smik in Bratislava. “Squadron Leader Miroslav Liskutin was born on…
…for the forward FIGHTING SPEARHEADS. The Commander’s naval career spanned steam and oil to the development of nuclear propulsion for the “Long Beach” cruiser project and he had two naval uncle brothers from West CORK before him, Patrick O’DRISCOLL in the ROYAL NAVY and Dennis DRISCOLL in the US NAVY….
…was in charge of a unit of the ground defences and, although under heavy fire, succeeded in destroying one enemy aircraft and causing damage to another. It was one of the hardest days fighting during the Battle of Britain. Defence of Kenley included Parachute and Cable (PAC) Units with Roberts…