Caribbean aircrew in the RAF during WW2A record of West Indian volunteers who served in the Royal Air Force during the Second World WarMcKAY – Gerrick Edmond No 605711 – Gerrick Edmond McKay from Jamaica. Enlisted 18.10.1943 in Canada. Trained as Wireless Operator. [Source: Forces War ...
Caribbean aircrew in the RAF during WW2 A record of West Indian volunteers who served in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War Books . . Caribbean Volunteers At War–RAF’s answer to the Tuskegee Airmen This is a portrait of more than 495 Caribbean and West African volunteers who...
Astonished to see four Allied aircrew in the enemy plane a member of the RAF crash boat team tasked with towing them to St Paul’s Bay is reported to have said “We thought it was old Mussolini coming to give himself up!” RAF ‘Crash Boat’ Feeling a little guilty that the Itali...
There was a Mess party going on so I met nearly all rthe aircrew which included one or two I had met at OTU Abingdon. One of the pilots was an American named Sherman*. I do not recall his first name which is a pity because I had known him well at Abingdon and we became firm ...
Through his personal network he contacted some prominent researchers who were able to provide many additional names to the list of aircrew. Jerome Lee of the Military & History Museum at Chaguaramas in Trinidad provided excellent and extensive records of Trinidadians who enlisted in the RAF. ...
Esmond was to become BWIA’s third local pilot and served the airline for 33 years. The Farfan brothers made history for BWIA in 1955 when they piloted our first Viscount aircraft. Ferdinand Farfan was captain with Esmond as co-pilot on the flight from London which arrived in Trinidad via...
[Source: Audrey Dewjee, West-Indian Aircrew in East Yorkshire during WW2, the Africans in Yorkshire Project] 1 Addition » Jamaica THOMAS – Vivian ‘As far as I know my granddad was born in Christiana in the parish of Manchester in Jamaica and moved to the UK to serve with the RAF...
aircrew pupils were sent to Canada,South Africa, and Southern Rhodesia (nowZimbabwe) to receive their training at schools specially established for the purpose. From June 1941 (six months before theUnited Statesentered the war) until the end of hostilities, British aircrew were also trained at ...
From June 1941 (six months before the United States entered the war) until the end of hostilities, British aircrew were also trained at civilian-operated schools in the United States. 1 of 2 Royal Air ForceRoyal Air Force commandos training with a Lewis gun during World War II.(more) 2 ...
From June 1941 (six months before the United States entered the war) until the end of hostilities, British aircrew were also trained at civilian-operated schools in the United States. 1 of 2 Royal Air ForceRoyal Air Force commandos training with a Lewis gun during World War II.(more) 2 ...