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SDASM.TITLE: Theodore (TP) Hall Collection Photo
SDASM.CATALOG: TP Hall_000449
SDASM.DATE: 1956
SDASM.COLLECTION: Theodore (TP) Hall Collection
SDASM.TAGS: Theodore (TP) Hall Collection
PUBLIC COMMONS.SOURCE INSTITUTION: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
Royal Canadian Air Force CF-18 Hornet jets are parked on the ramp during Maple Flag in Edmonton/Cold Lake, Alberta, Canada, June 03, 2014. Maple Flag is an international exercise designed to enhance the interoperability of C-130 aircrews, maintainers and support specialists in a simulated combat environment. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Matthew Smith/Released)
Some of the unit's flyers underwent combat checkout missions with the veteran pilots of the 12th Tactical Fighter Wing at Cam Rahn Bay, logging the squadron's first combat sorties on 16 March 1966. A move to Da Nang Air Base took place before the year was out, with the entire wing assigned to Da Nang on 10 October 1966.
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In honor of Black History Month (February). I salute my father, a two-time war veteran (Vietnam {Conflict} War & Korean War).
It wasn't until after his death while going through his papers that I learned in addition to many medals he earned, one was a Purple Heart for an act of bravery during one of those wars.
This photo was taken of him at the Memorial for Tuskegee Airman in Walterboro, South Carolina. On this day he shared as a young boy, watching the men clean the "red tips" on their airplanes is what inspired him to want to go into the military and fly around in airplanes. Although he didn't become a pilot (he did not have a college education), he became a radio operator which placed him in the "cockpit" along with the pilot and co-pilot.
Curtis Christopher Robinson, 89 year old veteran pilot of the "Tuskegee Airmen", the barrier-breaking all-black fighter squadron in World War II. He graduated from college in 1941, joined the unit in 1943, and after the war completed a pharmacy program at Howard University. He later owned a chain of pharmacies in Washington, DC. He was signing copies of his book "A Pilot's Journey" and talking with visitors at the Smithsonian's Udvar-Hazy Center. It was a great honor to meet him!
United States Air Force - McDonnell Douglas (Boeing) F-15E Strike Eagle - USAF 90-0251 (c/n 1187/E153)
Note the Joint Helmet-Mounted Cueing System (JHMCS) flight helmet worn by the pilot.
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Regiment: 32nd Sqdn., Royal Flying Corps and, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died: Sunday 7 January 1917
Cemetery: Achiet-Le-Grand Communal Cemetery Extension, Pas de Calais, France.
Kindly provided by Jane Elder
Godwin was a relative of mine. He was Ethelbert Godwin Stockwell Wagner, known as Godwin. the son of Anne Francis Marples and Christian Wagner.
He was born in 1893 and went to Lord Williams's School, Thame, Oxfordshire and was an 'Old Tamensian'.
Two of his cousins were also killed in the great war in 1917. Private William Henry Noel Marples killed March 1917 aged 19 and Able Seaman Geoffrey Marples Edwardes killed September 1917 aged 20. It would have been a pretty rotten year for the family. Luckily other brothers and cousins safely made it home after the war.
Godwin was in the 32nd squadron of the RFC. he was probably shot down by Oberleutenant Erwin Bohme of jast 2 aka jasta boelke. I have always assumed that Godwin was killed as a result of being shot down, so it is of great interest to me to read that you have him as being killed as a pow.
Another online source records the following: William G. S. Curphey gained a kill identified as a two-seat LVG on August 22, 1916, flying this airplane. Curphey shot down six enemy aircraft before his death on May 15th, 1917, all flying the DH-2 with No. 32 Sqdn. The service career of this aircraft ended on January 7th, 1917 at 1230h, when it was shot down by Lt. d.R. Erwin Boehme of Jasta 2. Sitting in the cockpit of the DH-2 was E.G.S. Wagner, who did not survive. Wagner, a member of No. 32 Sqdn RFC, thus became Boehme‘s ninth victim. Boehme reached
a total of 24 kills by the end of the war.
Another source: 2Lt E G S Wagner of No 32 Sqn (formerly Royal Warwickshire Regiment) was flying DH2 7851 when he became Ltn Bohme's 9th victory on 7 January 1917. There's a very short account of the action, plus a photograph and short biography of 2Lt Wagner in Under the Guns of the Kaiser's Aces by Norman Franks and Hal Giblin.
It is worth noting that after Lord Williams's, Wagner studied at the University of Birmingham where he played cricket for the 1st XI. Hence, the reason for signing up with the Royal Warwickshire Regiment.
A well-known mural on a block of flats in Malaga, Spain. Looks like a great stoner band's album cover.
Dungeness is a headland on the coast of Kent, England, formed largely of a shingle beach in the form of a cuspate foreland. It shelters a large area of low-lying land, Romney Marsh. Dungeness is also the name of the power station and a few other nearby buildings near the beach, and of an important ecological site at the same location.
Dungeness is one of the largest expanses of shingle in the world[citation needed]. And is classified as Britain's only desert by the met office. It is of international conservation importance for its geomorphology, plant and invertebrate communities and birdlife. This is recognised and protected mostly through its conservation designations as a National Nature Reserve (NNR), a Special Protection Area (SPA), a Special Area of Conservation (SAC) and part of the Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) of Dungeness, Romney Marsh and Rye Bay.
There is a remarkable variety of wildlife living at Dungeness, with over 600 different types of plant: a third of all those found in Britain. It is one of the best places in Britain to find insects such as moths, bees and beetles, and spiders; many of these are very rare, some found nowhere else in Britain.
The short-haired bumblebee, Bombus subterraneus, was last found in the UK in 1988, but has survived in New Zealand after being shipped there more than 100 years ago. After unsuccessful attempts to reintroduce the New Zealand bees at Dungeness in 2009-2010, the RSPB teamed up with the Swedish government in a second attempt and introduced 51 of them in 2012 and 49 in 2013 to the Dungeness Reserve. This will be continued each year, with RSPB staff conducting analysis of breeding to ensure a successful integration.[1]
The flooded gravel pits on Denge Beach, both brackish and fresh water, provide an important refuge for many migratory and coastal bird species. The RSPB has a bird sanctuary there and every year thousands of bird watchers descend on the peninsula to catch a glimpse of a rare bird from the bird observatory.
In memory of Wing Commander Brendan Paddy Finucane DSO, DFC. Memorial plaque in memory of RAF fighter pilot Brendan Paddy Finucane, on the wall of Finucane Court, Lower Mortlake Road. The building (constructed after the war) was named in his honour as he had been a local man.
He died on 15 July 1942 off the French coast, near Le Touquet, while trying to nurse home his Spitfire after it had been hit by enemy ground-fire. At age 21, he was a fighter ace with 26 victories, and had also been the RAF's youngest Wing Commander.
There is a photo (not mine) of Brendan Finucane at the seat of his Spitfire in the group 'RAF photos'
It is touching to see from the wreath - in April 2012 - that he is still remembered
Pilot Officer
W.B. Pattullo (William Blair)
Pilot
Royal Air Force (46 Sqdn.)
25th October 1940 Age 21
Fondest memories
Ever in our thoughts.
Mum and Dad
Service nos: 43379
Son of Patrick William and Jessie Hood Blair Pattullo, of Eaglescliffe, Co. Durham.
"Attempting a forced landing he landed on the A12 Road in Harold Park and struck a house. He was badly injured and died the following day in hospital". www.removablemedia.com/northweald/pattullo.htm
(Cwgc)
Hans-Ulrich Rudel (2 July 1916 – 18 December 1982) was a Stuka dive-bomber pilot during World War II. The most highly decorated German serviceman of the war, Rudel was one of only 27 military men to be awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds, and the only person to be awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Golden Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds (by simultaneous promotion to Colonel), Germany's highest military decoration at the time.
Rudel flew 2,530 combat missions 2,000 targets destroyed; including 800 vehicles, 519 tanks, 150 artillery pieces, 70 landing craft, nine aircraft, four armored trains, several bridges, a destroyer, two cruisers, and a Soviet battleship. (by WIKIPEDIA).
He was a damn inconvincible Nazi throughout his Life, but nevertheless the most efficient german fighterpilot in WW II.
Corgi, Predators of the Skies, Limited Edition 1/4760