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On This Day...February 15th

by david leigh-smith on February 15, 2019 · in Photo Collections · 15 ≡

‘Friendly fire’ (in this case quite literally) was a huge problem when organising bomb runs on the massive scale that Bomber Command executed in the war with Nazi Germany. These photos, taken on February 15th, 1943 in Scampton [...]

On This Day...February 14th

by david leigh-smith on February 14, 2019 · in Photo Collections · 15 ≡

9th Armored Division technician Alvin Harley with a little French girl on 14th February, 1945. The traumatic evacuation of Singapore against the overwhelming might of the Japanese imperial Army in February of 1942 bears many stories of [...]

On This Day…February 13th

by david leigh-smith on February 13, 2019 · in Photo Collections · 18 ≡

On Saturday February 13, 1943 flight of 12 F4Us from VMF-124 escorted Thirteenth Air Force B-24 bombers to Bougainville, the longest escort mission of the war in the Solomons at the time. This was the Corsair’s very first combat mission, [...]

On This Day…February 12th

by david leigh-smith on February 12, 2019 · in Photo Collections · 10 ≡

‘Bomb disposal experts’ pull ashore a mine that was reported as drifting near to the coast in South East England, February 12th, 1940. Alastair "Sandy" Gunn about to depart in Spitfire reconnaissance aircraft AA793 for his [...]

On This Day…February 11th

by david leigh-smith on February 11, 2019 · in Photo Collections · 11 ≡

Infantry of the 2nd Gordon Highlanders take prisoners in the german border town of Kleve. The Second Battalion was ravaged by deaths and POWs taken in the Battle for Singapore in February of 1942, but reformed later that year and [...]

On This Day…February 10th

by david leigh-smith on February 10, 2019 · in Photo Collections · 8 ≡

10th February 1943. No. 139 Squadron, RAF, was formed in July of 1918 in Italy and was originally outfitted with Bristol F2b fighter aircraft. It was disbanded on 7 March 1919, regrouping in September of ‘36 flying Hawker Hinds and then [...]

On This Day…February 9th

by david leigh-smith on February 9, 2019 · in Photo Collections · 15 ≡

‘Black Friday’ - February 9th, 1945. A disastrous attack on German Destroyer Z-33 in a Norwegian Fiord saw the loss of nine Beaufighters, one P-51 Mustang, fourteen aircrew KIA, and four aircrew taken PoW, losses made more painful by [...]

On This Day…February 8th

by david leigh-smith on February 8, 2019 · in Photo Collections · 13 ≡

More diorama bait... Ground crew mechanics at Laredo Army Air Field, Texas, give a Consolidated B-24 Liberator a complete overhaul before flight, 8th February 1944. Source; ‘Flight’ February 8th, 1968 8th February 1940: A flight of [...]

On This Day…February 7th

by david leigh-smith on February 7, 2019 · in Photo Collections · 13 ≡

‘Boy Sitting on Sea Mine’, Deal, South Coast of England, 7th February, 1940. Presumably defused and made safe. Spitfire P9315, RAF Benson No 3 Photo Reconnaissance Unit, Cambridge, England, 7th February 1941. Flight 7th February [...]

On This Day…February 6th

by david leigh-smith on February 6, 2019 · in Photo Collections · 6 ≡

On the night of February 6, 1941, this Wellington Mk.IC (No. RAF L7842) belonging to No. 311 (Czechoslovakian) Squadron RAF flew on a mission to bomb a target in the area of Boulogne, France. During the sortie, the aircraft had to force [...]