181 results found for: Gliders (Pilot Regiment, Towing, Operations)
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…Tower Bridge, realized it made a deliciously attractive target to fly through, the act of which became legendary.’ Alan Pollock recalls ‘the Tower Bridge Incident’ for the BBC’s World Service Tower Bridge by David Bomberg (c. 1946) Born in 1936, Alan Pollock grew up inspired by the pilots and planes…
…neighbouring airfields, which would change history. Philip was in the 46th PURSUIT SQUADRON on the island of OAHU and one of the few pilots to actually fly in response to the attacks on that “day of infamy”. He received a Silver Star He flew many later combat missions, including a…
…at his action GUN station, vividly recalls the last 5 seconds of the green headbanded KAMIKAZE PILOT’s arrival on “FORMI”, a few feet away & his cabin mate, young 2nd Engineer Lt Len TEFF, nearby, was one of 11 killed (including Doc Al Vaughan & 14 injured but testifies, as…
…5,200 Germans killed after the Hitler Bomb Plot and the forced suicides of Field Marshals Guenther Hans von KLUGE (1882-17 Aug44) and ROMMEL (1891-14 Oct 1944, injured with fractured skull in his staff car crash when he had been strafed by a Canadian pilot in a Spitfire attack on 17Jul44…
…the man who taught the air forces of the world to fly.” Marshal of the Royal Air Force Lord Trenchard Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Raymond Smith-Barry AFC (4 April 1886 – 23 April 1949). During the Second World War, Smith-Barry served as a ferry pilot and an instructor. Syllabus for a…
“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…
…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)…
…of her, her parents, & Cranleigh village’s grief at loss of all her brothers in a fortnight at BATTLE of the SOMME, epitomizing Britain’s sacrifice: Lieutenant Corporal Harry Greenfield MM, Company Sergeant Major Frank Greenfield & Sergeant Percy Greenfield, 7th BATTALION QUEEN’S (ROYAL SURREY) REGIMENT #107 Leslie A LENEY Observer…
…test pilot & BATTLE OF BRITAIN OC 213Sqn, Harold Blyth‘s widow. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE BLETCHLEY PARK & SIS #136 Nancy BUDGETT Nancy BUDGETT WOMEN’S WAR WORK; AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS WARDENS, CIVIL DEFENCE & Eric CLAXTON MBE’s RESCUE & CASUALTIES UNION training ST JOHN’s & RED CROSSProfessor Sir F Harry HINSLEY KBE…
…feet, many hands, and many intelligences” Aristotle, A Treatise on Government, Book III, Chapter XI This website was conceived, built, designed, and populated (up to a point; we’ve barely scratched the surface) in thirty-three (33) days. Only the combined operations, far beyond the call of duty, of the ‘Welsh wizard’…
…#250 Phillip BRISTOW Pilot (Seaplane) Lieutenant Conrad Phillip BRISTOW Joined RNAS in 1917 & left in 1919 as a Flight Lieutenant RAF. Flew SHORT 184 seaplanes over (936 made, in Battle of Jutland 1, one 1st torpedo sinking) 2 years: 230lb bomb (+ 2 pigeons), ANTI-SUBMARINE RECCE 406, 442 Flts…
…in Lincoln and have extensive links to the county, and who were inspired by the fact that Lettice Curtis was the first woman pilot to deliver a Lancaster. Their charitable donations will go to Lincolnshire’s Lancaster Association, the Lincolnshire Military, Veterans Families Wellbeing Network (Every One), and Combat Stress. The…
Mrs Margaret ‘Maggie’ BLYTH (née EDWARDES-JONES) Cryptographer, and sister of Air Marshall Sir Humphrey ‘EJ’ Edwardes-Jones, first SPITFIRE test pilot & BATTLE OF BRITAIN OC 213Sqn, Harold Blyth’s widow. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE BLETCHLEY PARK & SIS…