195 results found for: Phoney War (Sitzkrieg)
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…David Gorrie would die in a mid-air collision on April 8th, 1941. David G Gorrie Of the half of those eight pilots in the photograph who survived the war, British-Canadian Hamilton Charles Upton died in 1965. Sgt. J Arbuthnot, Sgt. R Plenderleith, Sgt. HJL Hallowes [Signatory 14], F/Lt. JWC Simpson,…
…months of the war serving at the Naval Air Test Center in Patuxent, Maryland. Vraciu ended the war as the U.S. Navy’s fourth highest ranking ace, credited with downing a total of nineteen enemy aircraft and destroying twenty-one on the ground. Post war service Following World War II, Vraciu was…
…known as 1 Squadron. At the outbreak of World War One it was reformed with aeroplanes, thereafter becoming one of the leading British fighting scout units on the Western Front. During the interwar period the unit remained in existence, and in October 1938 some of the first Hawker Hurricane monoplane…
“One thing that angered him very much was the lack of recognition of the part that science and technology had played in winning the Second World War.” Donaldson, David Abercrombie; Sir Samuel Curran (1912-1998), DL, MA, PhD, DSc, LLD, ScD, FRS; University of Strathclyde. http://www.artuk.org/artworks/sir-samuel-curran-19121998-dl-ma-phd-dsc-lld-scd-frs-155741 The science of war and…
…in, in World War II, Imperial War Museum. CC BY-SA 2.0 (2008) “In January 1942 Deere embarked on a short tour of the United States to teach fighter tactics to American pilots. He was back in action three months later, taking command of a Canadian spitfire squadron before being posted…
…and the war’s end – with a little reflective comment at the end. Johnnie was actually a gifted writer and a highly intelligent, well-read, individual. Indeed, his wartime memoir Wing Leader, published in 1956, remains well-read even today – and contains some stunning descriptive passages of flying and fighting in…
…Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) as a pilot and was described in her Telegraph obituary as “arguably the most remarkable woman pilot of the Second World War.” ‘She joined the ATA in July 1940 and worked until the end of the war, when the ATA was disbanded. She had delivered over…
…intensely.” Sir Tasker’s medals include the VC and MBE. Mr Dart believes Sir Tasker’s reaction to the painting is typical of that of war heroes. “Nobody likes to glorify war,” he said. “Sir Tasker simply did his duty. He just got on with it and in doing that he won…
…international pressure, and Argentina joined other Latin American countries and declared war on Germany and Japan, but by this time the war was all but over, on 27th March 1945. Brazil was under its dictator Getúlio Vargas maintained its neutrality until August 1942. After German submarines attacked Brazilian ships in…
…titles, only finally accepting the OM (after declining a CH) because it was in the Queen’s gift – he was always an ardent royalist. He accepted a peerage last year. He married, briefly in war-time, the American actress Constance Binney. Later he married Sue Ryder, now Baroness Ryder of Warsaw,…
…80 million passengers each year, employing 120,000 people, and contributing over £6 billion to the UK economy. He was a fighter ace, with 9 kills to his name, in one war, and Under-Secretary of State for Air, in Winston Churchill’s wartime government, in another. Night-flying by Ambrose McEvoy 1917 (unfinished…
…carrier Implacable and carried out a series of attacks on German shipping in the fjords of Norway. By the time the war ended 880 Squadron and Implacable were prosecuting the war in the Pacific, striking at the Japanese mainland. Crosley was mentioned in despatches, and in August 1945 received a…
…Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205158468 “I have never met a braver man” James Magennis was the only Northern Irish VC awarded in the Second World War, and the first acquired by Lord Ashcroft for his renowned VC collection now on display in Lord Ashcroft Gallery at the Imperial War Museum in London. Belfast…
“one of the top scoring Royal Air Force fighter pilots of the Second World War and the second highest scoring RAF fighter pilot of the Battle of Britain” World War Two fighter pilot James Harry “Ginger” Lacey is being honoured with a blue plaque this weekend at his birthplace –…
…months later, he arrived safely home in Britain. It sealed his membership of an exclusive band of brothers whose wartime exploits have been largely forgotten. In World War II, a quarter of a million Allied soldiers and airmen were stranded behind enemy lines and became prisoners of war. Just a…
…a French airfield to provide support for the British Expeditionary Force. Throughout the bitter winter of the “Phoney War” there was little action, but on April 19 1940 Drake met the enemy for the first time. His formation attacked a flight of Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighters and, in the ensuing…
…to retrain as an engineer. Reluctantly, he moved to the RAF School of Aeronautical Engineering at Henlow. He was saved, however, a few weeks later by the outbreak of the war, which immediately posed a need for trained pilots. Polish War Memorial at Northolt After France and the desert, “Rosie”…
…Switzerland and joined the British Legation at Berne. Here he remained for the rest of the war, and despite confirmed rumours of the Nazi Gestapo placing a “price” on his head, he commenced a second war; a secret war of counter intelligence and “underground” activity which for a long time…
“I saved her life in the war… and later she became ‘Audrey Hepburn’” “Michael Burn was one of the last survivors of the naval commando raid on St Nazaire, after which he was captured and imprisoned at Colditz. Michael Burn (left) captured, indicating the success of the raid with his…
…filed a stunningly accurate report on the German missile order of battle. When captured by the Gestapo in 1944, Madame de Clarens had both the mettle and heart to warn her companions, who successfully escaped. With her place in history secure and having spent the last year of the war…
…One Man’s Guerrilla War, and Chindits: Long Range Penetrations.” “Calvert had one of the most courageous, long, varied and influential WW2 careers. He signs for the regular Royal Engineers (training in 1933), Chindits, and the Special Air Service, which he commanded at the war’s end. After RMA Sandhurst, Cambridge, wartime…
…studied at the Glasgow School of Art where he was awarded a travelling scholarship, venturing to France and Italy. He was commissioned as a war artist in both the First and Second World Wars and became a member of the Royal Academy in 1935. He lived in Blackheath, London, until…
…full-time to Vickers Supermarine in 1938, Quill took complete charge of Spitfire test flying, working closely with Joseph (Joe) Smith who had taken over as chief designer for Supermarine in 1937, following the death of R.J. Mitchell in the same year. Second World War During the Second World War, Quill…
“Captain Dickie Annand, who died on Christmas Eve aged 90, won the Army’s first Victoria Cross of the Second World War when serving with the 2nd Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, in Belgium in May 1940. Dickie Annand VC On May 15, 2 DLI was in a defensive position on…