198 results found for: Prisoners of War (Pows)
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…Assuree [Victory of the Allies is Assured] (Shows Lancasters on a night raid) © Art.IWM PST 15041 Neither of these two sorties, nor the rest of his wartime operational career as a pilot and squadron commander, would have been possible had he not escaped from captivity after crash-landing his bomber…
…on the fine contribution of Maj Gen “Pete” Quesada and AM Broadhurst in further developing tactical air-ground warfare during the European campaign with microwave early warning radar (MEW) direction of ‘cab rank’ fighter bombers already airborne and close by, and placing pilots as forward air controllers inside tanks equipped with…
…Brigade Layforce near the U.S. Rangers and for the 5th Army, before recovering and returning to UK Jan44 for 2 weeks’ leave & preparation for D-Day for Sword Beach (further 30% casualties, 47 killed and missing and 72 wounded) and then onto Walcheren and the rest of this Commando’s war….
…all time attempting to end the war early by dropping Allied troops behind enemy lines into the Netherlands. The 101st Airborne Division was attached to the First British Airborne Division as also was the 82nd Airborne Division and the Polish 1st Independent Parachute Brigade. in the FIRST ALLIED AIRBORNE ARMY….
…bombing mission over Japan that earned him an oak leaf cluster. He stayed in the military after the war and eventually retired from the United States Air Force as a colonel in 1965. He died in 2005 and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Lt. Rasmussen had awakened in his…
…up and attack, so turned back straightaway to face the Corsair head on. They both fired at each other and Phillip saw the Zeke explode and flew right through the debris. Col LeLong flew from USS Bataan in the Korean war, this time with VMF-312 Squadron, where he flew a…
…formed to protect the Roval Dockyards from invasion and then through its 2nd Hampshire Artillery and Garrison Volunteers becoming 1st Wessex Royal Field Artillery for South Africa and in 1916 RA against the Turks in the Middle East in Dec 1916. His war service though does not just incorporate here…
…Gen. Sir Bernard FREYBERG VC(1916 with HOOD Bn RND) KCB KBE DSO take ITALIANS prisoner under his muzzle!); back to EUROPE as the Regimental Honours at HILL 112, CAEN & FALAISE, winning his MC at the River ALLER crossing; had an end war race to the Baltic to forestall (by…
…INTELLIGENCE by radio, of great use to the AMERICAN PACIFIC FORCES on enemy AIR, NAVAL & GROUND movement, sometimes having to move hides, always vulnerable to betrayal or discovery by Japanese occupation forces; for all those AUSTRALIAN NEW ZEALAND, BRITISH, DUTCH and ALLIED COASTWATCHERS, particularly those killed in the war,…
…war with Germany began to seem likely, the British Government increased their preparations for the coming conflagration. The Chief of MI6, Admiral Hugh Sinclair, ordered GC&CS to expand its staff numbers. Those to be recruited were to be professorial types, drawn from Oxford and Cambridge universities. However, as the cryptanalytic…
…16Apr45 and award of DSO. Later in post-war Norway, and a short period with Scandinavian Airlines, Werner returned to the RNoAF as an Air Attaché in Stockholm, Training Branch Chief and then as Wg Cdr Flying at Gardermoen. Gen Christie became Commandant of the RNoAF Staff College and was NATO’s…
…how it was read in Sunnmørsposten on Wednesday 30 March, in the war year 1943. It was the German occupiers who were behind the search. The week before, the wanted men, or rather: the young men, had been on board a small rowing boat for four days, on the run…
…– had to be a contractual national ‘secret’ during the war, signing here for the effective (but so costly in young lives) service of the Typhoon Squadrons in the liberation of North West Europe, in the much appreciated support of the forward troops – in particular against enemy armour and…
…their former CO, telephoned his congratulations on their having surpassed his total of 20 to become the most successful British and Commonwealth night fighter partnership of the war. The crew were gazetted for a Bar to their DSOs and in March they left No 85. Burbridge was later awarded an…
…Returning to King’s in 1944 it would then be the V-1 doodlebugs and the V-2 rockets causing their war casualties. In late summer 1944, Mary joined the Princess Mary’s RAF Nursing Service and became a Flying Officer Sister, first at Ely and then St Athan, where VJ-Day was celebrated. Then…
…with BEF (blown up twice, once straight into a draper’s shop window just before leaving late on 1Jun40 from DUNKIRK’s mole) with 22nd FIELD REGT and with their two 32nd/33rd Batteries, later 32nd, of 3 Gun Troops with 12 guns, 10 officers & c.150men – when war broke out there…
…by U-584. In the final month of the war Atkinson’s Tintagel Castle secured an undisputed kill. A depth charge attack with the destroyer Vanquisher sank U-878 in the Bay of Biscay west of St Nazaire. Demobilised a lieutenant-commander, Atkinson went into shipbuilding and in 1957 became managing director of William…
…School in Birmingham. There he excelled at games and was a patrol leader in the Scouts. On his 18th birthday he joined the Royal Artillery, TA, and at the start of the Second World War was mobilised. King Edward Grammar School (Leslie Jackson is one from right on back row)…
…wartime TELEGRAPHIST AIR GUNNER of 816 & 845 SQNs to represent all the RN “TAGs”, especially those flying in the primitive but remarkably effective Swordfish “Stringbags”, the (only British pre-war operational aircraft to finish WW2 still operational & the same aircraft), here on convoy protection & anti E-boats; also for…
…the Cold War and beyond. This historical element on this WW2 participative mosaic, plunging the world into its new nuclear era, has been covered also partly by official British observer, Gp Capt Leonard CHESHIRE (Signatory 31 on a limited number of prints), who was on board Major SWEENEY’s “Bock’s Car”…
…forward engine room. By 0850 the order to abandon ship was given, and the Gambier Bay had completely sunk by 0900. Dr. Loats later wrote: “The spot where the Gambier Bay was sunk, the ocean is about seven miles deep. The water is warm, but after dark it is cold…
…crossed lines to fly back by USAAF Liberator. In RHINE CROSSING at.WESEL on 25Mar45 with 1 &,2 SAS & 8 Para; tasked from Celle to enter horrific BELSEN & prepare tor ARMY & RED CROSS TEAMS: post-war GREEN HOWARDS, 21 & 22 SAS, fought in Malaya, Oman & occupied Yemen….
…50 warships in EAST INDIES and PACIFIC FLEETS from ROYAL INDIAN NAVY, mostly SLOOPS as his own CAUVERY etc, FLEET MINESWEEPERS as his KONKAN, frigates & corvettes; recalls MOSLEM CONTRIBUTION in TWO WORLD WARS, seen in European & Far East COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES, & part of world’s LARGEST VOLUNTEER ARMY….
…the loss of ARK ROYAL & the severe damage to Queen Elizabeth and Valiant. 1941 year end was the low point of the RN’s war in the Eastern MEDITERRANEAN; BARHAM had been built in 1913-15, the 5th Battle Squadron leader at JUTLAND,, survived torpedo from U-30 28Dec39, in the BATTLE…