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5 days ago · As a boy, Townsend was passionate about flying, joining RAF Training College Cranwell aged just 19, and making his first solo flight after just six hours’ training. He was commissioned as a pilot officer in 1935, and a year later, led a squadron that flew to India’s northwest frontier, a five-day journey of 7,000km.
5 days ago · Group Captain Peter Townsend CVO DSO DFC and Bar, publicly best remembered for his romance with Princess Margaret in the 1950s, served at Acklington during the Second World War. He piloted one of the three Hawker Hurricanes that shot down a Heinkel 111 on 3 February 1940 near Whitby, the first Luftwaffe aircraft to crash on English soil during ...
4 days ago · Princess Margaret first met Peter Townsend when she was only 14-years-old. ... What dress-wearing Richard Dreyfuss said about trans children, LGBTQ community, #MeToo and Barbra Streisand during ...
5 days ago · Mark was born in Bury St Edmunds and graduated Initial Officer Training in 2003, the MoD said. He was then sent to RAF Linton-on-Ouse to fly the Tucano before gaining his ‘wings’ in 2003.
6 days ago · Group Capt. Peter Townsend, the dashing World War II fighter pilot who loved and lost Princess Margaret, has died after more than 30 years of self-imposed exile. He was 80. PETER TOWNSEND, FIGHTER ...
May 8, 2024 · Twentieth Century. V.E. Day, A Royal Night Out, & The Ritz. Trystan L. Bass May 8, 2024. 9 128. May 8, 1945, was Victory in Europe Day, marking the Allies’ acceptance of Germany’s surrender and the end of World War II in Europe. While Japan would not surrender until August of 1945 (with the document formally signed on September 2), massive ...
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May 10, 2024 · Queen Mary, who was born on 26 May 1967, was a royal at birth being the great-granddaughter of King George III. Mary was initially betrothed to Prince Albert, but following his death, she became ...
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