198 results found for: Prisoners of War (Pows)
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…and the 1,700 wounded could be transferred, with COL.WARRACK in charge and Martin HERFORD as his Deputy – this functioned with four Surgeons & four Chaplains for a full month under British control – it closed before the end of October and several medical staff, including Cols Warrack and Herford,…
Wing Commander Lucian Ercolani was a wartime bomber pilot decorated three times for gallantry in operations over Europe and in the Far East; he was later chairman of the family furniture company Ercol. On the night of November 7/8 1941, Ercolani took off in his Wellington of No 214 Squadron…
…landing 0830hrs D-DAY at OUISTREHAM on NORMANDY INVASION’s left flank at SWORD BEACH “S:’; wounded during the war, he signs for all COMBINED OPERATIONS & the Sth-& all DESTROYER FLOTILLAS; post-war he was active again (OBE Near East Operations for SUEZ 1956) and his last two naval appointments were as…
…World War. In the Battle of Britain who had the privilege to command the legendary Polish 303 Squadron which shot down more German planes than any other RAF squadron – despite not joining the battle until August, two months after it had begun. The Battle Colours were sewn in secret…
…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…
…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…
…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…
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 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…
‘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…
…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 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…
…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…
…this time was John “Cats’ Eyes” Cunningham [Signatory 50], who himself became one of the most famous night fighter pilots of the war. It was a hard apprenticeship because Crew’s Bristol Blenheim was equipped with early, and rudimentary, airborne radar, and much depended on the ability of his air gunner,…
…designer, Roy Chadwick, Sir Roy Dobson and the whole team on AVRO’s war winning Lancaster, developed with its four Merlins out of the underpowered Manchester twin (R-R 24 cyl. Vultures). Early in 1941, the first of 7,377 Lancasters flew, which were to fly 156,000 wartime sorties over Europe, delivering over…
…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…
…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,…
…ended the war as a Guard Commander for the JAPANESE SURRENDER CEREMONY in the big hall at SINGAPORE. Firstly he served with the BURMA AUXILIARY FORCE during the difficult Retreat, then later becoming part of the Reconnaissance element in 46 COLUMN 111 BRIGADE, Second CHINDITS in OPERATION THURSDAY and then…
…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…
…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…
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…
…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…
…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…