181 results found for: Gliders (Pilot Regiment, Towing, Operations)
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…a navigator who, with his pilot Wg Cdr James G Benson DSO, DFC*, became one of the most successful of the RAF night fighter crews. Lewis joined the RAF in January 1941 after nine years in British acting and films. Too old for pilot training and too bulky for an…
…of No.236 Squadron 1941 “Arthur “Peter” Howard Piper (b.1916) was nicknamed Peter after his family’s pet Bull Terrier. He enjoyed sports, fast cars and like many other boys of his generation obsessed with speed and modernity, he wanted to fly. He trained to be a pilot while studying law in…
…deck operations: Royal Navy, circa 1943 ‘Commander Mike Crosley was a Fleet Air Arm ace and later a test pilot. Among the operations in which he took part was Harpoon, when a convoy ferried supplies and new aircraft to the relief of the besieged island of Malta in the summer…
…30 operations, Alabaster was awarded the DFC. He had been identified as an outstanding navigator and was sent to Canada to complete a specialist course before returning to Bomber Command. He applied to train as a pilot but his services as a navigator were considered too valuable. Soon after the…
…Duxford had certainly changed since Grandy had piloted a British Movietone News cameraman in a Hart biplane during the 1935 review of the RAF by King George V. Grandy found himself responsible for the introduction of the Typhoon, which had already resulted in the loss of several pilots; but he…
…In January 1945 he joined the staff of the School of Land/Air Warfare, and spent six weeks in Burma. He flew some operations in the Hurricanes of the Indian Air Force. He attended the Empire Test Pilots’ School and spent three years at Boscombe Down as a test pilot followed…
…he set fire to a Heinkel 111 (He 111) over Lille, followed it down and saw it crash-land. Flying low over the wreck, David saw the pilot scramble out and salute him. Then the bomber blew up, killing the pilot and smearing David’s windscreen with oil. After 10 days of…
…of the Battle of Britain was designated as the 11th July 1940 Lott unjustly was denied the BOB campaign clasp. Many of the ‘Few’ themselves believed the Battle actually commenced on July 1st, 1940. Under Lott’s command several pilots became aces: Peter Townsend [Signatory #12], Frank Carey [Signatory #27], Jim…
…pilots in Vietnam commented: “Quite simply, he was a leader of men to an extent that few have become, and the finest USAF fighter pilots of the day worked their way to Ubon to follow this icon into combat.” Official portrait of Brigadier General Robin Olds as Commandant of Cadets…
…late November, the Soviet Air Force took over the planes. During five weeks of operations, 151 Wing claimed 16 victories, four probably destroyed and seven aircraft damaged, for the loss of one RAF pilot. Four pilots were awarded the Soviet Union’s highest decoration, the Order of Lenin. In 2014, the…
…with easy grace Where never lark, or ever eagle flew – And, while with silent, lifting mind I’ve trod The high untrespassed sanctity of space, Put out my hand, and touched the face of God. John MaGee, the Canadian fighter pilot who died aged 19, author of “The Pilots’ Poem”,…
…in January 1924, here represents “I” Company in the 3rd Battalion, the 506 Parachute Infantry Regiment, the original main component of the United States Army 101st AIRBORNE DIVISION (filmed as The Band of Brothers) and took part in both Operations OVERLORD and MARKET GARDEN and, after his wounding, through his…
Wing Commander Lucian Ercolani was a wartime bomber pilot decorated three times for gallantry in operations over Europe and in the Far East; he was later chairman of the family furniture company Ercol. On the night of November 7/8 1941, Ercolani took off in his Wellington of No 214 Squadron…
…was equipped with the P-47 Thunderbolt, a fighter he had little time for. He worked hard to be re-equipped with the P-51 Mustang, and when this was approved he was told that his pilots had to be operational within 24 hours of receiving them. He agreed, instructing his pilots to…
Alan Pollock’s Rough Notes: A work in progress – the fuller biographies will emerge in due course: please sign up to the Newsletter (bottom of the page) and we’ll let you know when we’ve done more justice in writing up our extraordinary signatories. The top scoring NORWEGIAN fighter pilot of…
…Cross and two Presidential Unit Citations, he stayed in the post-war Navy, becoming. an early Navy test pilot graduate in 1950. Among the first US Navy pilots to fly jet aircraft, he helped develop the F-8F Bearcat and the F-7F Tigercat for carrier operation. In 1953 Elder returned to combat…
“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 –…
…Place in Cranleigh, Surrey. There is a simple brass plaque in Cranleigh’s village church commemorating the service and sacrifice of these three brothers, Harry, Albert Frank and Percy, all three of whom served with the Queen’s Regiment, Their casualty details listed elsewhere are recorded here. Lance Corporal HARRY GREENFIELD MM…
…Winston Churchill: “Victory is the beautiful, bright coloured flower. Transport is the stem, without which it would not have blossomed (“The Royal Corps of Transport” page 27) The Army COMMANDOS, GLIDER PILOT REGIMENT, PARACHUTE REGIMENT and SPECIAL FORCES had dedicated RASC personnel and the first Parachute Regiment fatality was a…
Alan Pollock’s Rough Notes: A work in progress – the fuller biographies will emerge in due course: please sign up to the Newsletter (bottom of the page) and we’ll let you know when we’ve done more justice in writing up our extraordinary signatories. Welsh Guards Regimental Quartermaster, Sergeant Major Korean…
…on the flanks. Two battalion landing teams from each of two assault regimental combat teams in the four divisions, or more than 16,000 troops, came ashore in the first hour.9 (See Map No. V.) The assault troops were followed by a wave of tanks. Some were equipped with flotation devices,…
…air-gunner, Aircraftman Taylor, and stopping the engine, but he managed to glide over the airfield perimeter fence. As he and Taylor scampered for the nearest trench, a shell blew up the aircraft. Habbaniya, 2nd May 1941 by Stuart Brown. (Commissioned by the Royal Air Force Regiment). “Under effective fire from…
…Cross, 31/7/1945 Japanese card of ‘Takao’ REEL 1 Background to joining Royal Navy, 1939: membership of Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve; duties as coxswain of picquet boat of HMS Royal Oak. Aspects of operations as midshipman aboard HMS Montrose, 17th Destroyer Flotilla during Dunkirk evacuation, 5/1940: drafting to ship; trips to…
…US rations; work in Corsica, 12/1943-2/1944. Aspects of operations as bomb disposal officer with Royal Navy Party 1500 in Normandy, 6/1944-7/1944: arrival, 7/6/1944; accommodation; role of unit at Arromanches; initiation to handling anti-tank and anti-personnel mines. Aspects of operations as bomb disposal officer with Naval Party 1501 in Antwerp and…