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4 days ago · Peter Townsend was the Air Force ace who might have married Britain’s Princess Margaret, but his romance rocked the Palace. He was shuffled out of Britain but, as Dennis Abbott writes, he eventually found a new life in Brussels. Who was Peter Townsend? In the 1950s, everyone knew.
3 days ago · A suitably dramatic representation of Hook defending his hospital room. Another veteran of the war who famously gave an account of his experiences on several occasions - and for whom the same process can be seen to be at work - was Alfred Henry Hook who, as a private in B Company, 2/24 th, had been awarded the Victoria Cross for his gallantry in the defence of the hospital at Rorke’s Drift.
3 days ago · Peter Fayssoux Stevens. (1830 - 1910) Home State: South Carolina. Education: The Citadel, Class of 1849;Class Rank: 1. Command Billet: Regimental Commander. Branch of Service: Infantry. Unit: Holcombe (SC) Legion Infantry Battalion. see his Battle Report.
1 day ago · 458 SQUADRON. No. 458 Squadron was an Australian Squadron; however, Robert wasn’t on his own in terms of being an RAFVR man attached to an ‘Aussie’ unit. Because of an agreement signed in 1939 between the governments of Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the UK, British and Commonwealth air forces formed a common pool of aircrew and ...
2 days ago · Naval History & Heritage Command, 2016. Download a PDF Version of 'US Navy in Operation Enduring Freedom' [1MB] On the morning of 11 September 2001, terrorists affiliated with al-Qaeda perpetrated the most devastating attack on the United States since the Japanese strike on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in December 1941.
3 days ago · He was later posted to RAF Chivenor on Spitfire XVIs. Olver was released from the RAF at his own request in 1947 as a Squadron Leader. He married a WAAF officer, they eventually had four sons, and emigrated to Kenya in September 1947 to farm there.
4 days ago · ROYAL Navy aviators today complete a month-long mission safeguarding Icelandic skies alongside RAF comrades. For the past four weeks F-35B Lightnings have been deployed to the land of ice and fire – the first time they’ve been deployed on the key NATO mission.
