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…War Hutchinson 1987). Without the Tokyo Raiders, would the Imperial Japanese Navy have embarked on what led to the Battles of Coral Sea and Midway? Col James Doolittle won a Medal of Honor for the Raid, the USS Hornet CV-8 would be sunk in the Battle of Santa Cruz, receiving…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…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…
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…
…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…
‘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…
…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…
…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…
…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…
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…
…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…
…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…
…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…