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P-40's of the AVG Flying Tigers 3rd Pursuit Squadron - Hell’s Angels - surprise the enemy with a deadly strafing attack on a Japanese forward air-base in China, summer 1942. With their Allison engines screaming at full throttle, AVG Aces Tommy Haywood and Robert Smith, lead the charge as the Hell’s Angels leave a trail of havoc and destruction behind them.
Robert Taylor has...
“ It was tough, reliable and could turn its hand to almost any maritime task ”
On Wednesday 22 June 1938 a new sound was heard over the humid streets of Singapore as four Bristol Pegasus radial engines heralded the arrival of the RAF’s newest flying-boat- the Short Sunderland. For the men of 230 Squadron gathering on the slipway at Seletar, the...
During a short respite from the heavy fighting on D-Day, paratroopers from the 101st Airborne stand easy outside a recently liberated café as they await orders for their next objective. It is just a matter of hours since these men parachuted into France and the 101st will continue to play a crucial role in the Allied advance across Europe.
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Top scoring RAF Ace Johnnie Johnson, Commanding Officer of 127 Wing, leads the Mk.IX Spitfires of 421 Squadron RCAF out on patrol from the airfield at Evère near Brussels, close to the German front line. As the Canadians climb steadily out, the golden light of dawn reveals a snow-clad landscape firmly held in the icy grip of winter, December 1944 .
Perhaps the greatest pilot...
By any military standards, it was difficult to imagine the Supreme Commander of the largest air force of the time, piloting himself over the battlefront during the opening hours of one of history’s greatest military operations. But Jimmy Doolittle was no ordinary commander.
Hero of the famous 1942 raid on Tokyo, Jimmy Doolittle always led from the front. By 6 June 1944 he was in...
ANGOVILLE-AU-PLAIN, 6 JUNE 1944
IN HONOUR AND IN RECOGNITION OF
ROBERT E.WRIGHT
KENNETH J. MOORE
MEDICS 2nd Bn 501 PIR
101st AIRBORNE DIVISION
FOR HUMANE AND LIFE-SAVING CARE
RENDERED TO 80 COMBATANTS AND A CHILD
IN THIS CHURCH
IN JUNE 1944
These simple words,...
Reinforced by tanks from nearby Utah Beach and P-47 Thunderbolts overhead, Paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division patrol the centre of Sainte-Mère-Église. After two days of intense fighting following their predawn drop on D-Day, the town is finally liberated.
Individually wrapped with matching envelope.
Paratroopers of the US 101st Airborne Division prepare to board Douglas C-47s at Upottery Airfield on the eve of D-Day. Shortly after 22.00hrs they will set course for Normandy and, after crossing the French coast under heavy AA fire, drop behind Utah Beach to seize key objectives just hours before the largest seaborne invasion in history.
THE WORLD’S FOREMOST AVIATION ARTIST COMMEMORATES THE 75th ANNIVERSARY OF THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN 1940 – 2015
Spitfires of 616 Squadron scramble from RAF Kenley during the heavy fighting of the Battle of Britain, late August 1940. Below them a Hurricane of 253 Squadron, sharing the same base, is being prepared for its next vital mission at a distant...
On the evening of 5 June 1944, at a dozen airfields across southern England, more than 13,000 American paratroopers prepared themselves for a mission that would change the course of history. T he next morning these brave young men found themselves at the forefront of the bitter fighting to secure the right flank of the...
