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It sounds like a modern military fiction story, but its what actually happened in the 1940s. Here s What You Need To Remember: As military planners today contemplate ways to defend against the threat of today’s far more survivable, longer-range, and precise cruise missiles, the Allied experience in Operation Diver should offer both hope and a sobering warning. London was under siege as it never had been before. Starting June 13, 1944 merely a week after the triumph of the D-Day landings V-1 cruise missiles launched from Nazi-occupied France began raining down upon the metropolis, their rapid-firing pulset jet motors emitting a horrid buzzing drone. ....
Stalin s Spitfire: Wrecked in Russia in 1945 after being loaned to the Red Army, iconic aircraft is brought home. and given a £2million makeover Supermarine Spitfire Mk IX, serial number PT879, was one of 1,328 British fighters supplied to the Red Army Was part of often forgotten lend-lease scheme by the Allies to help Joseph Stalin s forces fight the Nazis After a restoration project, it is now the only flying example of a Russian Spitfire in existence Was flown by British owner Peter Teichman over Grafham Water reservoir near Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire ....
National Library of New Zealand Group Captain Leonard Henry Trent whose Victoria Cross is on display in the RNZAF Museum in Christchurch this month. A Victoria Cross awarded to Nelson-born Squadron Leader (and later Group Captain) Leonard Henry Trent VC DFC (RAF 36146) is on public display for the first time. It’s the only VC in the RNZAF Museum of New Zealand collection at Wigram, Christchurch. The precious medal, which will be on display until May 9, was donated to the museum along with Trent’s nine other medals by his family after his death in 1986. A quiet and unassuming man, Trent disliked the fuss that the award caused and remained uncomfortable with the publicity and his renown as a war hero, always stressing the vital contribution of his aircrew and making a point of quietly visiting the families of those who gave their lives. ....
Published: February 24, 2021 at 7:03 am At the height of the battle of Dunkirk in May 1940, the brilliant New Zealander Al Deere was on patrol in his RAF Spitfire over the French coast. Suddenly, through the haze of smoke drifting upwards from the raging combat on the ground, he spotted a German Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter below him. He instantly gave chase. Soon, both planes were descending earthwards at high speed. “Down we went, throttles fully open, engines roaring and each determined to get the last ounce out of his straining aircraft. From 17,000 feet down to ground level I hung to his tail,” recalled Deere. ....