Tobias Ellwood, Chair of the Defence Select Committee has cited the C-130J’s ability to drop boats for the Royal Marines as a niche capability that will be gapped, at least temporarily, when the C-130J leaves service this year. Ma...
Volunteers wore the VR badge to distinguish them from regular service personnel.Whole squadrons were made up of VR personnel, and held squadron numbers in the range 600 to 614, usually with a city or county designation incorporated into their title, such as 600 (City of London) Squadron and ...
The numbers are either his RAF service number or the date he assumed his rank. Other abbreviations are “T” (Temporary), “P/O” (Pilot Officer) and then “F/O” is Flying Officer, “F/Lt.” is Flight Lieutenant and “WS” is War Service. “Prob” is “on probation”. As far ...
Men from 17 different nationalities were in service at Hornchurch, and many are honoured in the displays — including Vaclav Jicha, the first Czech pilot to destroy a Focke- Wulf FW 190. The heroic efforts of women are well covered too; in particular there's a great display on the 'ATA ...
On the outbreak of; war in 1939, he volunteered for service with the R.A.F. and was called up in June 1940. He received his “‘Wings” in December the same year’ and became a Sergeant Pilot in a Whirlwind Fighter Squadron, with which he has been serving since. He received a comm...
rather sorry state in the mid-1990s when the trainee intake plummeting to 350 as RAF numbers were cut from 96,000 to 55,000 as the service switched to an expeditionary role after the Cold War ended.Today the vast base has some 2,700 trainees and 1,500 other service and civilian staff....
At least four ex-USAAF LB-30s were operated by Consairways, the company-operated airline which had a USAAF contract for the return of ferry crews from the Pacific. Known serials were AL531, AL568, AL594, and AL598. 46 of the requisitioned LB-30s saw active service with the USAAF, eit...
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve Unit Text: 78 Sqdn. Age: 22 Date of Death: 29/06/1941 Service No: 964420 Additional information: Son of Henry James Green and Clara Green, of Mitcham, Surrey. Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 44....
main reasons is that they think it’s an 44 language to learn but I have had fun 45 it.And I hope what have done is easy and fun.”Her 46 offers a series(系列)of lessons which are videos of Daisy teaching a group of students on topics from greetings and numbers to Chinese culture...
main reasons is that they think it’s an 44 language to learn but I have had fun 45 it.And I hope what have done is easy and fun.”Her 46 offers a series(系列)of lessons which are videos of Daisy teaching a group of students on topics from greetings and numbers to Chinese culture...