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Personnel gathered on the deck of FURIOUS are ready to rush forward and steady the Sopwith Pup being flown by Cmdr. Dunning on 2 August I9I7. Five days later, his latest landing attempt ended in tragedy when the aircraft slewed to one side on landing and toppled overboard, with its pilot being drowned.
Photo and caption fron Britain's Fleet Air Arm in World War II by Ron Mackay
AFTER THE RAID
Andy Lassen and commander Young on the voyage back to Mersa Matruh after the successful raid on Crete. (Courtesy of the SBS Archive)
Dick Holmes gets some well-earned rest on the return from Crete, an operation for which he was awarded the Military Medal for blowing up the dump at Peza. (Courtesy of Angie English)
Some of the Cretans brought off the island by the SBS clean up on the voyage across the Med. (Courtesy of the SBS Archive)
Photos and caption featured in The SBS in World War II by Gavin Mortimer
David Sutherland wrote on the back of this photograph that he took it âof the party a few minutes before the Germans spotted usâ. (Courtesy of SBS Archive)
Photo and caption featured in The SBS in World War II by Gavin Mortimer
Andy Lassen, David Sutherland and Ken Lamonby. This photo was taken minutes before a German patrol chanced upon their beach, leading to the death of Lamonby. (Courtesy of the SBS Archive)
Photo and caption featured in The SBS in World War II by Gavin Mortimer
Harry Poat (front row, third from right) with Derrick Harrison to his left pose with some of the boys from Two Troop after operations in Sicily. Sid Payne is second left in the back row. (Authorâs Collection)
Photo and caption featured in The SAS in World War II by Gavin Mortimer
DĂŠsirĂŠ De Becker in Police uniform at the time of the Fives raid in July 1943.
Photo and caption featured in Agent Michael Trotobas and SOE in Northern France by Stewart Kent & Nick Nicholas
Jim Pringle, 4th Coy, 2nd Regiment, in Rome, Italy. Courtesy JFK Special Warfare Museum.
Photo and caption featured in Of Courage and Determination: The First Special Service Force,The Devil's Brigade, 1942â44 by Bernd Horn
Rudi MĂźller was one of the great aces of JG 5 âEismeerâ in the north. On April 19, 1943 he lost his last battle against Nikolaj Bokij in his P-39. (Bundesarchiv)
Photo and caption featured in Stalin's Eagles: An Illustrated Study of the Soviet Aces of World War II and Korea (Schiffer Book for Collectors and Designers) by Hans D. Seidl
Glider Section, Broadway, Burma
Front Row (L-R) Flight Officer Samuel F. Steinmark; Second Lieutenant H. J. Delaney; unidentified; First Lieutenant Vincent J. Rose; unidentified; Captain William H. Taylor, Jr.; First Lieutenant Jackson J. Shinkle; First Lieutenant Patrick H. Hadsell; Flight Officer John L. "Jackie" Coogan Back Row (L-R) Flight Officer Francis L. Randall; First Lieutenant Soloman Schnitzer; Flight Officer James S. "Mickey" Bartlett; unidentified; unidentified; unidentified; Flight Officer Leo Zuk; First Lieutenant James E. Sever; First Lieutenant Steve T. Uminski Courtesy of 1st Air Commando Association
Photo and caption featured in Any Place, Any Time, Any Where: 1st Air Commandos in World War II (Schiffer Military Aviation History (Hardcover)) by R D Wagner
Tommy Yeo-Thomas, the âWhite Rabbitâ, first parachuted into France in 1943 at the age of forty-one. During the next year he twice more went back into the field but was eventually betrayed and ended up at Buchenwald. He survived the war by changing identity, having hatched a daring and collaborative plan with one of the camp doctors. Yeo-Thomas was later awarded the George Cross to add to his Military Cross and Bar. (Imperial War Museum)
Photo and caption featured in Setting France Ablaze: The SOE in France During WW II by Peter Jacobs
Simo Häyhä, a legendarily effective sniper who operated on the Kollaa front. Nicknamed âWhite Deathâ by the Red Army, Häyhä racked up 505 kills using his 7.62mm M/28-30 rifle (with open, not telescopic sights) and 7.62mm Suomi KP/31 SMG before he was wounded in the closing weeks of the war. The âcuckooâ, or Finnish sniper, was a constant worry for Red Army men wherever they were, with personal reminiscences of the war often mentioning the casualties they caused and the fear they inspired. The Soviets were convinced that the forests were full of such âcuckoosâ and would regularly spray the branches of the enemy treeline with machine-gun fire, often to the bemusement of the Finns who insisted that no sniper would put himself or herself in a position from which they could not readily escape. Nevertheless, there are first-hand Soviet accounts of Finnish snipers in the trees causing considerable carnage. One possible explanation is that such âsnipersâ were being confused with Finnish artillery observers, who did on occasion use observation nests constructed in tree branches. (SA-kuva)
Photo and caption featured in Osprey Combat 21 Finnish Soldier vs Soviet Soldier Winter War 1939â40 by David Campbell
Por./kpt. Jan Piwnik âPonuryâ, cichociemny, oficer âWachlarzaâ, organizator i dowĂłdca akcji na wiÄzienie w PiĹsku 18 stycznia 1943 r., nastÄpnie dowodziĹ zgrupowaniem partyzanckim AK w GĂłrach ĹwiÄtokrzyskich i byĹ szefem Kedywu OkrÄgu Kielecko-Raadomskiego AK
Photo and caption from Polska Walczaca Tom 17 Kedyw (Polish)
VMF-121 aircrews on Guadalcanal on 1 January 1943, just before the unit ended its time on the island. (From Left some names not complete) top row: Lieutenant Savage (USN) intelligence officer, Eldon H. "Duke" Railsback, Bob Baesler, Major Donald K. Yost - Commanding Officer, Ken Frazier, Youell L. "Joe" Crum, Harry J. "Rocky" Coleman, Robert L. "Pete" Petersen, Perry L. Shuman, J. Hunter Reinburg, Harold A. "Tony" Eisele, Sweethelm, Irwin W. Carter, Jack B. Gilford, Robert E. "Rosie" Daigh. Middle row: Frank D. Williams, Jr., unkn, "Doc" Little, (USN) - Flight Surgeon, Virgil G. Ray, Philip R. White, Alexander M. "Sandy" Hearn, Roy T. Spurlock, ( VM0-251 ), Joe H. âPeteâ McGlothlin, Jr., (VM0-251), Master Sergeant William J. "Bill" Kopas -NAP, John R. McMahon. Knelling: Harold E. "Fateye" Gardner, Bertel R. "Ras" Rasmussen, Francis E. "Effie" Pierce, Joseph F. Cannon, Lieutenant Colonel Samuel S. Jack, Commander, Guadalcanal Fighter Command, (original VMF-121 Commander, 1941), Warren E. Fisher, Charles P. "Pat" Weiland, (VM0-251), Elton "Shorty" Mueller, Joseph F. Moravec, Jack Foeller, William M. Lundin. (USMC via Steve Blake)
Photo and caption from Marine Fighting Squadron One-Twenty-One (VMF-121) By Tom Doll
Skylarking with a fellow officer in Taranto, Christmas 1943.
Photo and caption featured in AFTER THE BATTLE 17 - HIMMLER'S SECRET GRAVE - the burial of Heinrich Himmler. Prelude to Market Garden - Breaching the Meuse-Escaut Canal. A Bridge Too Far - the making of a classic movie. The Search for X5 -To recover a Midget submarine in Kaafjord (AFTER THE BATTLE MAGAZINE) by Winston G Ramsey
Tenente Mario Visintini (front) poses for the photograph with Capitano Antonio Raffi at Gura on 12 December 1940. Earlier that day, during a strafing attack, Raffiâs Falco had been hit by groundfire and he had been obliged to force-land behind enemy lines. Immediately, Visintini landed alongside his CO and took him aboard. Sat on Raffiâs lap, he then took off again, set fire to the damaged Fiat and returned to base. This act was widely publicised in the Italian press (Nicola Malizia)
Photo and caption featured in Osprey Aircraft of the Aces ⢠90 Fiat CR.42 Aces of World War 2 by Hükan Gustavsson and Ludovico Slongo
Pauline Growse; Bob Roberts; Sarah Churchill
by Francis Goodman bromide print, 28 November 1945 7 in. x 6 1/2 in. (178 mm x 165 mm) image size Purchased, 1988 Photographs Collection NPG Ax39591
First memorial in Lille Southern Cemetery when 14,000 French citizens attended 1945.
Photo and caption featured in Agent Michael Trotobas and SOE in Northern France by Stewart Kent & Nick Nicholas