164 results found for: Anti-Aircraft Defence
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…CIVIL DEFENCE & Eric CLAXTON MBE’s RESCUE & CASUALTIES UNION training ST JOHN’s & RED CROSS. Professor Sir F Harry HINSLEY KBE OBE Fellow British Academy Miner’s son who became Vice-Chancellor at Cambridge via BLETCHLEY. “By force of intellect alone, they shortened the war by at least two years and…
…the page) and we’ll let you know when we’ve done more justice in writing up our extraordinary signatories. Served Western Desert, Middle East and Balkans, founder member ROYAL AIR FORCE REGIMENT (formed 8 Jan and 12 Feb 1942). Representing ROYAL AIR FORCE REGIMENT / Tactical GROUND DEFENCE of RAF AIRFIELDS…
…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. (2 U Boats destroyed) Obituary in The Independent MiD*** Representing pre-War and WW2’s COASTAL COMMAND’s long RAF/RN ANTI-U BOAT JOINT BATTLE of ATLANTIC…
…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. On 221, 38 & 252 Sqns, 247 Wg & 790TU. Representing BLENHEIM, WELLINGTON, BEAUFIGHTER ANTI-SHIPPING search/strike OPERATIONS in MEDITERRANEAN…
…Battle of Jutland 1, one 1st torpedo sinking) 2 years: 230lb bomb (+ 2 pigeons), ANTI-SUBMARINE RECCE 406, 442 Flts (219 Sqn) [1899-2001] (101)1~ #42 Eric M BROWN Captain Eric ‘Winkle’ M BROWN CBE DSC AFC MA FRAeS RN World record number of aircraft types, including German, flown Representing NAVAL…
…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…
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…
…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),…
…aerodynamics of aircraft like the SPITFIRE, LANCASTER & MOSQUITO. Aberdare & University of Wales physicist, 55 yrs in AVIATION, Audax to Concorde /Tornado. “To see Handel engaged in debate with the French during joint projects was a joy. It brought out all his Welsh characteristics.” (Guardian). MAP & ROYAL AERONAUTICAL…
…seeing them grow from skeleton to fitting out, including AIRCRAFT CARRIERS (ILLUSTRIOUS, 1938), CAPITAL SHIPS & LINERS to many SUBMARINES (he particularly remembered their Captains coming to take them on final acceptance and Lt Cdr Alastair MARS, the “U” UPHOLDER (which would become a war loss, 540/730 tons, 31 complement,…
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. World record number of aircraft types, including…
…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 …
…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….
…CALVERT praising the 7th ‘s “enthusiasm for action” (marching with the 12th Aberdeen to White City, where they provided distinguished defence – the 6th marched 70 miles from Broadway to Aberdeen and attacked en route by the Japs, continued successfully and garrisoned Aberdeen until its evacuation – it was Wingate…
…Uncle ANDREW had been gassed with the ROYAL SCOTS and his Uncle HERBERT had fought in FRANCE qt PASSCHENDAELE. Bert joined at PONTEFRACT and went through CHATHAM and his first trade was Miner; he served on COASTAL DEFENCE, after an Electrical course, in No.g DEFENSIVE ELECTRIC LIGHT Unit, on the…
…the Axis Powers and dropped its neutrality and joined the Allies. Some Uruguayan pilots, along with volunteers from other countries, joined the Free French Forces. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Venezuela severed diplomatic relations with Italy, Germany and Japan, and, after implementing (with help from the United States) defence…
…of the Welch, Lieutenant Watkins found himself the only officer left, and put himself at the head of his men. Although subjected to short-range German fire, he charged two enemy posts in turn, killing or wounding the occupants with his Sten gun. On reaching his objective he found an anti-tank…
…Registration, and the other 494 Port Bn. This showed and later Sgt Calder saw how just each essential element combined to form this massive logistic jigsaw ahead of D-DAY. His Bn’s four Companies assembled in Mumbles Park, with the smell of their anti-gas impregnation everywhere around them, to embark at…
…successfully releasing their now driveable Sherman tank, their LCT suddenly hit one of the underwater anti-invasion obstructions and sank in a five foot depth of water. Emergency repairs with quick drying cement helped them re-float. Attached to a buoy, they had to remain there for two weeks after, not sensibly,…
…tactics. The Hurricanes had quite high losses practising and perfecting the ideal anti tank profiles to suit the killing potential of the 40mm guns, particularly in the run up to and after El ALAMEIN. 24 October, 1942 was their most successful day, when 6 Squadron was credited with knocking out…
…Able Seaman R W Webb DSM, dated 22Apr43, reads… “On the advice of the First Lord, the King has been graciously pleased to award you the Distinguished Service Medal for your devotion to duty as an Operator of the Anti-Submarine devices of H.M.S. QUENTIN during many successful engagements with the…
…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;…
…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 &…
…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…