195 results found for: Phoney War (Sitzkrieg)
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…forward, he needed to understand evolving actions on the battlefield and experienced first-hand the fierce fighting in ITALY. Here a signatory for the steady breaching of the strong GOTHIC LINE, scene of GALLANT, DIFFICULT and COSTLY FIGHTING, as well as the changing fortunes of war; he witnessed the tragic loss…
…before his father had to journey 200 miles on foot to enlist in Alma Ata for his training and was lost almost certainly at STALINGRAD. Like so many families in the Soviet Union the GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR took a savage toll of their relatives. 350,000 Kazakhs would not return from…
…story of daring improvisation and initiative. ‘Mike had been on pre-war No.9 Squadron Belgian Air Force with reconnaissance Renards (560h.p. Rolls Royce Kestrel engine) at Bierset near Liege, and Leon Divoy on No. 3 Sqn, flying Fairey Foxes (850h.p. Hispano), before the war of ‘10th May, 1940’ interrupted Belgium’s neutrality…
“258 of the 700 prisoners escaped, including half of those awaiting execution” Wartime fighter pilot famed for leading low-level precision bombing raids “Eighteen Mosquito-VI fighter-bombers, six each from 487, 464 and 21 squadrons, all carrying two 500lb bombs with 11-second delay detonators, were to breach the 20ft-walls surrounding the prison…
…Battle of the River SOMME. ‘Edie’ lived to 103 in what would become in the 1980’s England’s largest village and revealed that her mother never was the same after hearing this family’s tragic news. If the Great War was one of the two most tragic aspects of the 20th Century,…
“One of the first of The Few” “Rightly hailed in his obituary as ‘One of the very First of the Few’ Lott, despite losing an eye in combat on 10th July and remaining in command of 43 Squadron during the commencement of the Battle when post war the official date…
…third Bar to his DSO for his “conspicuous bravery and extreme devotion to duty in the face of the enemy”, making him the only airman during the Second World War to be awarded the DSO four times. Tait remained in the RAF after the war and served in South East…
…Buckingham Palace on 16 March 1945.” [Wikipedia] ‘Sudden Death to Touch!: Bomb Disposal Officer Lieutenant John Bridge’ by Alan Owen IWM Oral History: John Bridge REEL 1 Background in the Warrington area, 1915-1939: family; education; employment; reaction to declaration of Second World War, 3/9/1939. Recollections of period as bomb disposal…
…the other German-occupied countries combined – the intense patriotism and sacrifice of the POLISH PEOPLE received shallow change in the harsh post war settlement, offset somewhat by some of the deep admiration of many British, Commonwealth and Allied commanders and servicemen for their staunch Allies, in their new post-war host…
Lord Scarman 10 December 2004 • 00:12 am Obituary courtest of the Daily Telegraph The Lord Scarman, who died on Wednesday aged 93, was one of the finest lawyers of the post-war era; a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary from 1977 until 1986, he achieved widest recognition as a law…
…the Second World War; they also picked up aircrew who had been shot down in Occupied France. When Verity and his fellow pilots were picking up “Joes”, as their unidentified passengers were known, the enemy’s occupation forces were danger enough; but this was compounded by the preference for operating on…
…Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in May 1939. At the war’s end Alabaster was offered a permanent commission with the RAF but he chose to join Don Bennett who had just established British South American Airways (BSAA) operating “Lancastrians” (converted wartime Lancasters). On January 1 1946 Bennett and Alabaster flew…
‘One of the United States Air Force’s most charismatic fighter pilots, achieving “triple ace” status during the Second World War and in Vietnam’ Air Force Col. Robin Olds, in Southeast Asia – 1967- commander of the 8th Tactical Fighter Wing, preflights his F-4C Phantom. Col. Olds has shot down four…
…the USS YORKTOWN and along with bombers from CV-6 the USS ENTERPRISE, where three Japanese aircraft carriers were sunk in quick succession,. a key turning point in the whole Pacific War. Bob Elder also flew later in the Guadalcanal, Marshalls and Solomons campaigns. With two Navy Crosses, the Distinguished Flying…
…included a section on the survivors, “Soldiers and Civilians – What They Do Today”. General James M Gavin is quoted on the cover saying “There is no other work in the literature of World War II as moving, as awesome and as accurate in the portrayal of human courage.” On…
…joined 22 Aug 1921 on cruisers & AIRCRAFT CARRIER FURIOUS pre-war & ILLUSTRIOUS 4 VICTORIOUS post-war, retiring 5 Apr 1956; for all ROYAL NAVY SHIPWRIGHTS and SUCCESS of AJAX in the BATTLE of the RIVER PLATE on 13 Dec 1939 (then DSC as Warrant Shipwright “Chippy” & DAMAGE CONTROL duties),…
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. James McDowell commemorates the war operations of…
…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…
Squadron Leader Larry Curtis flew more than 70 bombing operations during the Second World War and had the very unusual distinction for a wireless operator of earning two DFCs. He had already completed two bomber tours when he arrived on No 617 Squadron in July 1943 as one of the…
…in the Second World War. The crew of the HM Submarine Thrasher (N37 a T-class submarine of the Royal Navy), captained by Lieutenant H. S. McKenzie came ashore to a heroic welcome in Dover in 1944. Thrasher had been commissioned for service in 1941 and by 1944 she had torpedoed…
…Major during Korean War, an Irish son brought up in Yorkshire & eldest of 9, for the wide, weighty service of the Guards Regiments in general and here, the Welsh Guards in particular, throughout so many campaigns and hard-won battle honours in both world wars. Bob earned a Pacific Star…
…for her WW2 service with the ROYAL SIGNALS, ATS, & all, the many teams, mainly of WOMEN, In the WAR OFFICE “Y” GROUP on SIGNALS INTERCEPTION work. She remembers well their Chief calling only a few of them together one day to congratulate them & saying that one of their…
…Eyes” CUNNINGHAM CBE DSO** DFC* AE DL FRAeS (20+ e/a) Great Airborne Interception (AI) Radar success, mostly with Jimmy RAWNSLEY on BEAUFIGHTER & MOSQUITO NIGHT FIGHTER OPS; post-war test pilot #77 Lettice CURTIS Miss Lettice CURTIS ATA “arguably the most remarkable woman pilot of the Second World War” (Telegraph) One…
…Captain Olander and his crew in the SWEDISH “Stureholm” were so impressed that, with permission, they broke convoy and went back, saving 65 but 191 died in ONE of the ROYAL-NAVY’S PROUDEST ACTIONS – a wartime film epic was made of this action’s consequence when 15 crew (under Lt A…