195 results found for: Phoney War (Sitzkrieg)
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…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…
…of Ceylon. Speaking at a dinner party at the British Embassy in America after the war, Winston Churchill called the attempted invasion of Ceylon as “the most dangerous moment of World War II” and that for him it “had caused the greatest alarm. Churchill had concluded that if the Japanese…
…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,…
…flying INSTRUCTOR in South Africa flew BEAUFIGHTERS in 19 SQUADRON SAA under Lt Col DON TILLEY in the ANTI-SHIPPING and STRIKE roles from ITALY and over ADRIATIC, as part of the BALKAN AIR FORCE. Post-war he flew in the BERLIN AIRLIFT, here signing for the wider operations of the SOUTH…
…flying and staff talent, he was posted to form the second squadron, No 652, where he commanded B Flight. After VE Day, Neilson was promoted to lieutenant colonel and appointed CO of No 3 War Crimes Investigation Unit, based at Bad Oeynhausen, a testing, and often harrowing, job involving coordinating…
…for which he was awarded his first DFC in April 1943. In the war he flew over 170 operational sorties, many of which were on TYPHOONS as OC 181 Sqn (bar to DFC in August 1944). Later, for his long service between Aug44 and Apr45 as Wing Leader of 124…
…RN represents ALL ARTIFICERS, the CREWS of the BATTLESHIPS, and specifically the traditional role of NAVAL GUNNERY (with RN neglecting newer Cinderella “AIRCRAFT” &, with its powerful FLEET, having hoped to negotiate the SUBMARINES away by treaty interwar), here specifically its big 16″ GUNS (shell wt 2,0501b & range 39,100yds…
…enemy aircraft on Fulmar and Mosquito aircraft. By the time the war ended, he was a lieutenant-commander. After the war, Peter joined Fairey Aviation as a test pilot, where he would fly many new Fairey aircraft including the Primer, Gannet, Firefly and the Rotodyne compound-helicopter. In 1954, he started his…
…the ANTI-AIRCRAFT ARTILLERY and the MIDDLESEX Regiment, TERRITORIALS, the 8th PUNJAB REGIMENT, the CHIN HILLS and GURKHA Battalions and, through his wife and her wartime service, that of the Red Cross VOLUNTARY AID DETACHMENT nursing services. Arthur’s service before his teaching years afterwards demonstrates the width of his experience and…
…1940, in Swansea, where she was born of English parents (he had a Scots father and Irish mother). Much of her wartime and post-war scientific work was done working together with her husband in UK and the USA. Later they supported the Scottish Polish Cultural Association, having both admired that…
…London, but his training was incomplete when war broke out, so he qualified as an air gunner instead. Blenheim bombers attack enemy vessel, just east of Le Touquet by David Rowlands Peter first saw operations in a Bristol Blenheim Mk.I squadron, No.236, based at North Coates. In March 1940,…
…courage displayed by Ganju.” (David Wade) “May your target be fulfilled” The untold story of the hero Gurkha Victoria Cross holders who helped win the war in Burma by General Sir Peter Duffell The Gurkha Museum Johnny Gurkha (1945) Produced by the Public Relations Film Unit India (Imperial War…
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…
…Galland. SV Pan old papers that were printed at time of the Battle of Britain. CU Sign stuck onto broken window, ‘Business as Usual’. SV Looking through the window of models. CU Model of lady’s head with hat on. SV Elsie and Doris Waters looking in the window. SV War…
…DEFENCE WARDEN. Born in Nov.1899, he joined the RNAS for war service at age 17 years 8 months at the Hotel Cecil in the Strand, going to Greenwich then Vendome near Tours for flying training on CAUDRON Gills then Curtiss J-4 Jenny (150 hp, bigger and heavier) – he would…
…standards – most workers then had high status if they “worked in ‘ Vickers”. Larry had 51 years with VICKERS ARMSTRONG SHIPBUILDERS at the BARROW on Furness SHIPYARD and represents the massive importance of WARSHIP BUILDING in our national SEA POWER; the father and son worked on many famous WARSHIPS,…
…ARNHEM, the two brave DUTCH KLEE BROTHERS taken away and shot. Frank’s father was with the VETERINARY CORPS in WW1 but his mother died when he was one – he was a successful pre-war boxer, unbeaten in the Army, and his wife, EDNA, was a MUNITIONS WORKER throughout the war….
…many of her friends in the Vught Camp in the south of the country and also Auschwitz. ‘In the Province of Brabant only one of the eight civic leaders survived the war and “helping an Allied soldier carried the death penalty”, with ever present dangers and the fear of betrayal….
…Deptford (see also: ANTWERP’s V-2 BOMBING), one of the many millions of WAR CIVILIANS killed. #10 Bridie MURRAY Mrs Bridie MURRAY++ (née DAWSON) AIR MINISTRY & WAR WIDOW In memory of her husband, MOSQUITO observer Flying Officer Fergus Murray DFC (23 & 464 Sqns) & her brother, RAAF pilot Flying…
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…(bottom of the page) and we’ll let you know when we’ve done more justice in writing up our extraordinary signatories. No.1 Sqn IAF, including NW Frontier and fighter ops out of IMPHAL in BURMA. In memory of pre-war Cranwellians (half his Entry killed before D-Day) and representing INDIAN AIR FORCE…
…stay in the US NAVY for 27 years, having three WW2 Campaign Battle Stars for the AMERICAN Theatre of War, EUROPE & AFRICA and the PACIFIC; in SIGNALS & also as GUNNER’s MATE. He began with the NAVAL ARMED GUARD (with 2.710 dead, they had the HIGHEST CASUALTY RATE; he…
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…MInstStE RE for the ROYAL ENGINEERS contribution to the air war worldwide and the key importance in WW2 building of the rapid provision of forward airstrips in NORMANDY and elsewhere for the universal requirement of air power. Normandy’s 100 miles distance from UK airfields, partly its strategic surprise to the…