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Bangkok, Thailand Around Feb 1973. On display at Pima Air and Space Museum. We were getting off a C-47
Vickers VC-10 C Mk 1K
XR808
Kenneth Campbell VC
101 Squadron
RAF Brize Norton
Oxfordshire
England
First flew as Type 1106 C Mk 1 on 9 June 1966
Delivered to 10 Squadron on 7 July 1966
Der VC Wiesbaden gwinnt in der Volleyball-Bundesligist mit 3:1 (25:23, 15:25, 19:25, 19:25) und zieht damit am westfälischen Tabellennachbarn vorbei. ©2018 Volker Watschounek
With Sean Scully's 'Landline Blue Veined' at the Timothy Taylor Gallery, ...Mayfair, ...November 8th 2016
Oman Royal Flight Vickers VC-10 Srs 1103 A4O-AB EGLB 26-02-11 - on display at the Brooklands Museum.
I was privileged to meet Johnson Beharry VC. I have never met a Victoria Cross holder before, he is the first VC recipient for over 30 years.
While serving in Afghanistan, he was leading a convoy that came under heavy fire, but he continued driving his heavily damaged warrior (an armoured personnel carrier) to get his wounded crew and the following convoy to safety. Because the warrior was damaged he had to open the hatch to see where he was going and exposed himself to intense incoming fire. The SECOND time he did this in another warrior on another op the convoy was again heavily ambushed, this time he received a head wound that resulted in 40% of his brain being removed - but he kept going.....
He later severed a finger while rehersing for ITV's Dancing on Ice. But that's another story.
Citation extract: "Beharry displayed repeated extreme gallantry and unquestioned valour, despite intense direct attacks, personal injury and damage to his vehicle in the face of relentless enemy action."
Top man.