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…Dudgeon established his headquarters at Ras-el-Ma in French Morocco. A man of great energy and enthusiasm, Dudgeon personally undertook some of the most difficult ferry flights. After returning a stranded Lancaster to England (his first flight in the four-engine bomber), he returned the next day with a new Wellington bomber,…
…where he flew initial test flights on many of the Navy’s new supersonic fighter aircraft including the F-3 Demon, F-1 1 Tiger, the F-4 Phantom, the A-5 Vigilante and the F-8U-3 Crusader. After Bob retired from the Navy in 1963, he worked for 23 years within the Northrop Corporation in…
…Luftwaffe night fighter pilots and attended their reunions. In later life he planted a tree at his old airfield at Wickenby in Lincolnshire in memory of his rear gunner. In 2011 he wrote his memoirs, Return Flights in War and Peace. John Rowland married Jean McMichael, a WAAF officer, in…
…five AUSTERS – A and C Flights were in the ARAKAN and the ADMIN BOX battle in February 1943, B Flight were at KOHIMA in March 1943 later joined by Sqn HQ and C Flt. The advance down the TIDDIM road, the advance to and crossing of the IRRAWADDY and…
…only lady in LUTON’s Laboratory, testing metallurgically CHURCHILL TANK production, with his family, further back, coming from Eastern POLAND, which was then to become SOVIET UNION territory. A WW2 example of the scale of LOGISTIC SUPPORT is shown here, in abbreviated layout from the NORMANDY MEMORIAL to Ben’s UNITED STATES…
…times wounded and VC 1918; active WW2 inc.POW escape & Churchill’s Chiang Kai-shek adviser!) during the German invasion Sep39, serving then in the BATTLE of FRANCE, with the 9th LANCERS in NORTH AFRICA, the KRRC, 3 DIV and 1 DIV, up into AUSTRIA, on to valuable work in Northern IRELAND,…
Model for the morale-boosting ‘Jane’ cartoon: ‘worth at least two divisions’ “Britain’s Secret Weapon” (Winston Churchill) “CHRISTABEL LEIGHTON-PORTER was the model for the Daily Mirror’s wartime strip cartoon “Jane”; the character’s lightly-clad adventures with the Security Service were credited with maintaining the morale of the Forces and even, on the…
…Bill and his company took part in a special demonstration jump on 23rd March 1944 for Sir Winston Churchill, Generals Dwight D. Eisenhower and Omar Bradley. He would well remember the stable near the Bell Inn at Ramsbury, recalling Reading and Hungerford as well as Torquay and exercises near Exeter…
…to an airfield near Murmansk to position for an attack against the German battleship Tirpitz, which was sheltering in a fjord in the north of Norway. The attack was thwarted by the ship’s smoke screen. Two months later, when the ship (labelled “The Beast” by Churchill) had moved further south,…
…VC (1917-1945) by Frank Thatcher; Royal Air Force Museum Just hours later, and three score miles away, Winston Churchill left RAF Uxbridge, where he’d been visiting the No 11 Group Operations Room, to monitor The Battle of Britain. No 11 Fighter Group’s Operations Room, Uxbridge by Charles Ernest Cundall (1943)…
#13 Harold BALFOUR Harold Balfour, First Lord BALFOUR of Inchrye PC MC* (9 e/a) Flight Lieutenant Commander as 43(F) Sqn was formed by 23yr old Major Sholto Douglas MC; flew Western Front Sopwith Strutters & Camels; Churchill’s 1938-44 USofS for Air. Representing the Royal Flying Corps & Royal Air Force…
…June, together with “three similar RAF derelicts”, Carey located an abandoned Bristol Bombay. Obtaining fuel from the French Air Force they filled her up and took off, with Carey manning the rear gun. “Good shots of Royal Air Force fighter pilots scrambling, they run to their aircraft with several shots…
…8 torpedoes, VICTORIOUS 8 aircraft torpedoes and ARK ROYAL 130 with a total of 16 torpedoes from COSSACK, MAORI, ZULU and SIKH); on PEDESTAL to MALTA the EAGLE was hit on RODNEY’s port side but RODNEY survived 3 days of Italian subs & many misses from Ju-87 Stukas; on TORCH…
…went to DARTMOUTH in May,1928, his Father having served in WW1 with the ROYAL GARRISON ARTILLERY in both FRANCE and MESOPOTAMIA. During WW2 he sank a total of 15 ships totalling more than 25,000 tons – once he took three prisoners from a French ship, two Germans and a dog…
…Part of the Sky; Testing the Early Jets; Tempests over Europe and Flying to the Limit. Much honoured by the aviation community, Beamont was a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautic Society and Honorary Fellow of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots (USA). He was awarded the Britannia Trophy in 1953,…
…STUART & GRANT TANKS came good, disproving ambivalence over tank use in jungle warfare, a much valued aspect in the ADVANCE back into BURMA. Reg joined the ROYAL ARMOURED CORPS in late 1940 at 18 with 6 weeks of CATTERICK & Gunnery in early BOVINGTON days as Guards mechanization began;…
…power losses and recovery low over the sea, surprising the local constabulary and the local Royal Observer Corps’s tracking and its (later Sir) Peter Masefield, a founder ‘Hearker’ (and Signatory 282). ‘Exactly one month later Mike Donnet soloed in the Spitfire at Heston and with Leon Divoy (who later survived…
…and Silver B (who had different missions) by a Royal Air Force Halifax of No. 138 Squadron into Czechoslovakia at 10 pm on 28 December 1941. In Prague, they contacted several families and anti-Nazi organisations who helped them during the preparations for the assassination. On 27 May 1942, at 10:30…
…he applied for a short service commission in the Royal New Zealand Air Force and was accepted in January 1939. In July 1939, he was sent to England to complete his training. Smith was posted to 151 squadron flying Hurricane fighters in July 1940, and was soon involved in the…
…was born in October 1914 and went to DARTMOUTH in May 1928, his Father having served in WW1 with the ROYAL GARRISON ARTILLERY in both FRANCE and MESOPOTAMIA. During WW2 he sank a total of 15 ships totalling more than 25,000 tons – once he took three prisoners from a…
…of the 81st WEST AFRICAN DIVISION, served with and commanded soldiers of both the GAMBIA and GOLD COAST REGIMENTS, the “Forgotten Formations” in the “Forgotten Campaign” in the KALADAN of the “Forgotten Army” and recalls the achievements of the expansion of peacetime’s ROYAL WEST AFRICAN, FRONTIER FORCE and the soldiers…
…was not captured but sunk in January 1944, off Ireland, by a Short Sunderland flying boat from No. 461 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force. Those naval ratings in Sub-Lt Balme’s boarding party in helping rescue so much potentially useful material for Bletchley Park to use were Able Seamen S Pearce,…
…Captain Olander and his crew in the SWEDISH “Stureholm” were so impressed that, with permission, they broke convoy and went back, saving 65 but 191 died in ONE of the ROYAL-NAVY’S PROUDEST ACTIONS – a wartime film epic was made of this action’s consequence when 15 crew (under Lt A…
…pre-war FAIREY DESIGN, helped form pre-war “HEARKERS”. as TECHNICAL EDITOR of “AEROPLANE”, stressed necessity of AIRCRAFT RECOGNITION TRAINING and later helped ROYAL OBSERVER CORPS & OTHER FORCES, becoming EDITOR of “Aeroplane Spotter” & “Inter-Services Journal on AIRCRAFT RECOGNITION”; Personal ADVISER Lord BEAVERBROOK and Secretary WAR CABINET COMMITTEE on AIR TRANSPORT….