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“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…
…2nd October a He111, which ditched just off the beach at Chapel St. Leonards, ten miles north of Skegness. 151 Squadron went over to night-fighting in November 1940 and began to convert to Defiants in December but still retained some Hurricanes. These made up ‘C’ Flight, which Smith commanded. He…
“It was an adventure… we had a job to do and that was all there was to it.” “Flying Officer Ray Grayston…was one of the last survivors of the Dambusters’ raid and was flight engineer of the Lancaster that breached the Eder Dam. Night fighters: La Victoire des Allies est…
…replacements for the men lost on the Dam Busters raid. He joined the crew of the Australian Mickey Martin (later Air Marshal Sir Mick Martin), who was described by his CO, Leonard Cheshire, VC, as “the greatest bomber pilot of the war”. Curtis flew on the squadron’s first bombing operation…
…Yorkshire as it takes off for a bombing raid on Dusseldorf, Germany. This was the first occasion on which more than 200 Halifaxes took part in a raid, of which 12 were lost. Extensive damage was caused to the centre of Dusseldorf, which suffered its most destructive attack of the…
…some of the most audacious targeted raids of the war and which helped to build Sismore’s later reputation as one of the Air Forces’ finest low-level navigators. ‘On January 30, 1943, the pair led the first of two daylight Mosquito raids on Berlin which aimed to embarrass Hermann Goering and…
…went to flying school with, who was a make-up artist. We established our friendship prior to the war when we went in to take our physical examination and his cousin was a make-up artist. .I would meet Jimmy Stewart at times and a lot of the old movie people –…
…first raid on Italy when a force of Whitleys crossed the Alps in a thunderstorm to bomb Turin. On August 25 he flew on the first raid on Berlin, mounted as a reprisal for the German bombing of London. Before the end of the year, he had attacked Berlin on…
…August 23, 1919, in Jirikovice in Czechoslovakia. After completing an engineering apprenticeship he applied to join the Czechoslovak Air Force and trained as a pilot with the 2nd Air Regiment. ROYAL AIR FORCE FIGHTER COMMAND, 1939-1945. (C 3193) Stills from camera gun footage taken from a Supermarine Spitfire Mark V…
…operational raid on August 5 1940 against a flying-boat base on the Baltic and over the next few months attacked targets in Germany and France. On the night of April 3 1941 he took off to bomb the German battle cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau at Brest. On the outward route…
…so vital in preventing atomic weapon progress of the German scientific team. Jens and his tiny team’s survival, so isolated through months of winter and near starvation, was an epic story in itself with only nine Norwegian Commandos, having to undertake successfully the Ryggan raid, after the tragic loss of…
…up above the mist and into a clear, star-lit night, marching through pine woods at first, then on narrowing, steepening tracks and finally on to loose scree. Newton stumbled and fell frequently, gasping for breath in the thinning air. Eventually, they reached the 8,000ft peaks and began the treacherous descent…
…first picked up by the Danby Beacon Chain Home system at 09.03hrs whilst sixty miles out to sea. Allied fighters were scrambled to intercept these aircraft flying at around a thousand feet and located them at 09.40hrs. This Heinkel had just made an attack on a trawler when it was…
…first visit to RAF Duxford, 1934; background to posting as station commander; effects of arrival of Women’s Royal Auxiliary Air Force on station; role of station commander; composition of wings on station; problems with Napier engined Hawker Typhoon; proposed role of Hawker Typhoon during Dieppe Raid; background to leading 609…
…of pre-war RAF career; receiving news of outbreak of Second World War, 3/9/1939; status of sergeant pilots; participating in first leaflet raid of Second World War; character of leaflet raids during Phoney War; ineffectiveness of target finding in first years of Second World War; pressure from other services against bombing…
Wing Commander Branse Burbridge, RAF’s most successful night fighter pilot Wing Commander Branse Burbridgewas the RAF’s most successful night fighter pilot, being credited with the destruction of 21 enemy aircraft, including four during one patrol. Teamed up with Flying Officer “Bill” Skelton, he achieved the first of his successes on…
…and shortly afterwards was awarded the DSO. Following a rest on the Bomber Command operations staff, in November 1944 Hodges was briefed to accompany Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory, the newly-appointed Air Commander-in-Chief, South-East Asia, as his personal staff officer. The posting was, however, cancelled at short notice, since…
SEPTEMBER 7, 1940. Squadron Leader George LOTT DFC (centre), who lost an eye in combat with six Me110s on July 9th for which he was awarded a DSO, visits his fellow Hurricane pilots of 43(F) Squadron at Tangmere. ‘From left, standing: P/Os HC Upton, AEA van den Hove dÉstsenrijk (Belgium),…
…Britain, including a period on the staff at Sandhurst. In 1952, he was appointed Military Assistant to the High Commissioner in Malaya. He then commanded the 1st Battalion of The Queen’s Royal Regiment from 1957 to 1959. In the early 1960s he led 24 Infantry Brigade Group in Kenya and…
…in his list of individual victories were 14 Messerschmitt Bf 109s and 20 Focke-Wulf Fw 190s [a.k.a. ‘The Butcher Bird’] destroyed making him the most successful RAF ace against the Fw 190. This score made him the highest scoring Western Allied fighter ace against the German Luftwaffe. …Johnson flew various…
…& US towns and villages -4×4 inch, 2 x 0.5 inch and ‘2 x 21 inch tripled torpedo tubes but armament had to be changed – CAMPBELTOWN of ST NAZAIRE RAID was of this type) , the 1,060 ton HMS NEWPORT, one of the 50 US destroyers). Naval Party 645…
…link to his past is evidently strong and Mr McLennan is reliving it. His Mdina connection is vivid. The pilot only spent one night in the mediaeval city and although all he did was rest and recover, having just landed off HMS Eagle, he still remembers the details and the…
…pilots still went into the skies to protect us” WAAFs and ground crew wave off bombers from the Anglo-American 2nd Tactical Air Force. Pathe newsreel (below): “It’s In The Air!” (1944): RAF Tangmere Documentary 1985 The first, and worst, enemy raid on the station came on 16 August 1940 when…
“one of the most remarkable men of his generation, perhaps the most remarkable” Leonard Cheshire, Baron Cheshire by Bassano Ltd. Bromide print, 17 August 1944 NPG x85329 © National Portrait Gallery, London “Leonard Cheshire was born in 1917, the son of a barrister and legal jurist. Educated at Stowe and…