Bangalore torpedo at a collector meeting at New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States, 20 Sep 2014 A half-buried Japanese Type 92 15kg high-explosive anti-personnel bomb (live) found near Lumby, British Columbia, Canada nearly 70 years after being delivered by a Fu-Go balloon bomb, Oct 2014...
Apart from flares and small incendiaries that could be accommodated by this bomb bay, most of the weapons used were larger diameter bombs mounted to the external shackles, being either conventional high explosive or anti-personnel cluster bombs. The internal bay could only accommodate small diameter...
Allied repatriation ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Uraga, Japan and disembarked personnel. She entered drydock for repairs. [Hikawa Maru | Uraga, Kanagawa | CPC]3 Aug 1946 Japan Allied repatriation ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Yokohama, Japan for repairs and maintenance. [Hikawa Maru | Yokohama,...
We can actually determine the exact aerial missions that your individual Army Air Corps pilot flew. Understand what your WWII veteran experienced while assigned to specific infantry units, ships or squadrons. Access WWII personnel records showing your veteran’s enlistment, draft, honorable discharge,...
Additionally we welcome the relatives/families of those 979 78 Sqn personnel KIA/MIA during WWII and also the 20+ personnel lost since the end of WWII So if you have served with No 78 Squadron at; Al Mazra, Breighton, Croft, Dishforth, Kabrit, Khormaksar, Linton on Ouse, Middleton St. ...
Then let’s consider the South African Naval Personnel serving in the Royal Navy’s Fleet Air Arm (the Royal Navy’s own Air Force separate to the Royal Air Force), and here the following South Africans are on the FAA Honour Roll (excluding Air Mechanic Riley from the Fleet Air Arm, re...
General Auchenlik – the British Commander of the 8th Army at the time then issued an order instructing all surplus personnel to be sent back to the Egyptian Delta for rest, re-supply and training, a moved which greatly displeased General Dan Pienaar. General Dan Pienaar The 1st South Africa...
In 1942, two all-Black Hospitals were operating, one at Ft. Huachuca, Arizona, run by the Army, and another at Tuskegee, Alabama, run by the Air Corps. Nevertheless, in view of the need for more medical personnel, African-Americans were to serve in other hospitals too. Under pressure ...
A report on the memorial tribute to the RAF Airmen and the other British army/navy personnel from the British West Indies who served in WW II held in Washington DC on June 19, 2009. [Report by CaribNation Television; courtesy Gabriel Christian] Click here for some photos taken on the vi...
there being a shortage of available military personnel for the task. His Ferry Command cards is awash with the many and varied flights he undertook during the war. He was involved in ferry operations to Australia and too Africa. He flew in all manner of aircraft ferried during the war inclu...