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…returned at once to the original position and brought him back in a wheelbarrow before losing consciousness as a result of his wounds. For two days Annand jolted through France in a Belgian hospital train without food or water. He no sooner arrived at the hospital in Calais than it…
…end of the year Atkinson was knighted. Yet BS was heading for trouble again. Japan had responded to increased British competitiveness by raising its subsidies. In March 1983 the government announced that the Canadian businessman Graham Day would succeed Atkinson with the remit of putting the yards back into the…
…(Warriors of the Sky) _________ France, 1940: 1 Squadron by Christopher Shores via the BBC History Archive [‘Last updated 2011-03-30′] On 13 May 1912 one of the first three military aviation units of the new Royal Flying Corps was formed – although in those days it was an airship squadron,…
…and North West Europe, 12/1943-2/1945: encounter with Focke Wulf 190s over Paris, France, 12/1943. REEL 4 Continues: attacks on German radar stations in preparations for D- Day landings; move to Normandy, France, 9/6/1944; ground attack role in North West Europe; distinguishing targets on ground; physical condition at end of Second…
…successful operations. Some days later, however, he flew from the ill-fated carrier Glorious and shot down a Heinkel bomber, then was brought down by ground fire off Trondheim. After ditching in shallow water, Fraser-Harris and Russell were pelted with rocks by villagers, who mistook them for Germans. But when the…
“you came here without permission to land” “Boleslaw Drobinski was born at Ostrog in Poland on 23rd October 1918 and educated at Dubno High School. He joined the Polish Air Force on 1st January 1938 and finished training on 31st August 1939. The following day Drobinski and other pilots went…
…19th December 1941), the citation for the latter crediting him with twelve Me109’s destroyed and probably another four. Broadhurst’s tally of German fighters continued to increase in 1942. On 12th February, the day of the Channel Dash by the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, Broadhurst got a probable Me109, on 27th April…
…long OC, HURRICANE, 17ftr victories, IBSLEY WG LDR, brilliant 2nd TAF Group Captain Ftr Ops Plan D-DAY & EUROPE #49 Alan C DEERE Air Commodore Alan C DEERE DSO OBE DFC* DFC (US) Croix de Guerre (17+ e/a) Later Wing Leader at HORNCHURCH & BIGGIN HILL, the Central Gunnery School…
…6Jun44 on D-DAY beach & representing No.4 COMMANDO & MARINE COMMANDOS & OPERATION OVERLORD losses. #68 April MEEKUMS April MEEKUMS+ (neé BRIGHT) In memory of her brother, one of 168 CIVILIANS killed (& 121 seriously injured) in the worst V-2 attack of WW2, on 25NOV44 on Woolworths store, New Cross,…
…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…
#290 Dietrich BETHGE Dietrich BETHGE Renowned cellist and Godson of, and Christened by, Protestant Pastor Dietrich BONHOEFFER, who in 1944 wrote a celebrated sermon from prison on the occasion: “one day, long after 2000, you will be the living bridge over which your descendants will get. an oral tradition of…
‘Shot down 12.55 hrs. Baled out’ A laconic log-book entry that hardly begins to capture the actuality of James Nicolson’s sortie in a 249 Squadron Hurricane that Friday, August 16th, 1940. Recalling the events, anonymously, in a radio broadcast later, he was more forthcoming: The first shell tore through the…
‘unflagging zeal and leadership’ Peter Townsend with his friend Caesar Hull [c.f. Signatory 6], who died on 7 September 1940. “These days Group Captain Townsend is best known for his romance with the late Princess Margaret and for being equerry to King George VI, but he was already well known…