#fairey battles

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2 September 1939. The Royal Air Force Advanced Air Striking Force was deployed to France. It initially comprised 12e squadrons, 10 equipped with Fairey Battle light bombers and 2 equipped with Hawker Hurricane single-seat fighters.

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Fairey Battles, British single-engine light bombers serving in the Royal Air Foce

Dutch vintage postcard

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1938 painting of the Fairey Battle. Used by the RAF as a bomber at the start of the Second World War but withdrawn in 1940.

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RAF Fairey Battle Attack Bombers from 218 Squadron over France - 1939

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Anglo-Argentinian ATA pilot Maureen Adele Chase Dunlop de Popp During WW II female pilots of the ATA - Air Transport Auxiliary ferried aircraft from the factories to air bases or maintenance units all over England. War time allowed that physical disabilities were ignored for ATA pilots, so even short-sighted and one-eyed pilots were recruited, humorously referred to as "Ancient and Tattered Airmen" (ATA). ATA pilots flew different types of aircraft and had a basic checklist for each aircraft, be it single or multi-engine! This photo in a series for "Picture Post" shows glamorous & fearless Maureen Dunlop in a Fairey Barracuda aircraft. After WW II, Dunlop became an instructor pilot for the Argentinian Air Force and later worked as a commercial pilot until 1969. (Photo: IWM)

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Fairey Battle

[barbariankingdom]

The Battle of Taranto. On the night of 11–12 November 1940. British Royal Navy in the Mediterranean Sea engaged the Italian Navy and launched the first all-aircraft ship-to-ship naval attack in history, employing 21 Fairey Swordfish from HMS Illustrious.

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Fairey Battle. A pretty useless, but elegant aircraft.

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1940 05 Fairey Battle MkI Belgium - Stan Hajek

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Fairey Battle, RAF 105 Squadron

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Fairey Battle (L5156)

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Ούτοι γυναικός εστιν ιμείρειν μάχης.**

- Aeschylus

Surely it is not for a woman to long for battle.**

Maureen Dunlop flew far faster planes than any of her peers, including Amelia Earhart. She flew Spitfires, Lancasters, Hurricanes and Mosquitos, and proved the dream of Picture Post's photographer when, on emerging from the cockpit of a Fairey Barracuda, the sun on her hair, she made the cover shot of the popular Picture Post that sold thousands of copies in autumn 1944.

Dunlop mastered the controls of 28 different single-engine and 10 multi-engine aircraft types, which also included the Hawker Typhoon, Hawker Tempest, Avro Anson, Mustang, Bristol Blenheim and Vickers Wellington. The ATA did a gruelling day-to-day job, plying the skies under constant threat from inclement weather the length and breadth of Great Britain, at a time when the nature of flying was changing in popular consciousness from having been a pre-war novelty and the subject of record attempts and joyrides, to being a vital part of the war effort.

The women among its members also had to put up with opposition from men who had little faith in their ability – or perhaps misplaced chivalry – such as Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory, who would not let women pilots cross the Channel, or who were merely rude, such as the RAF men who joked of the first all-women aircraft ferrying pool at Hamble in Hampshire as "the lesbians' pool".

Dunlop, like many of her female colleagues, said she wished she could have flown in combat: "I thought it was the only fair thing. Why should only men be killed?"

The ATA service had been founded on the initiative of Gerard "Pop" d'Erlanger, a director of British Airways and banker, who bent the ear of Sir Francis Shelmerdine, Britain's director-general of Civil Aviation, against opposition from the RAF, which preferred to use its own pilots until shortages forced it to relent. ATA pilots had to make the most of training that was, some avowed after the war, inadequate. Instrument flying was not taught, but the service would have ground to a halt if pilots had not broken rules forbidding them to fly in bad weather. Women had to have a minimum of 500 hours' solo flying before joining the ATA, twice as much as the 250 hours originally laid down in September 1939 for the first members, all men. She was one of the 164 female members of the wartime Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA), of which one in ten pilots died while transporting aeroplanes between factories and military airfields

Maureen Dunlop, the second of three children of Eric Chase Dunlop, an Australian farm manager employed by a British company in Argentina, and his English wife, Jessimin May Williams, began flying at the age of 15, when she joined the Aeroclub Argentino. Two years later she had obtained her pilot's licence. Living with her parents, older sister Joan and younger brother Eric on estancias in Patagonia, she was educated by a governess and briefly attended St Hilda's College, an English school at Hurlingham in Buenos Aires. The example of her father's British military experience as a volunteer with the Royal Field Artillery in the First World War, together with an article in Flight magazine, inspired her to sail to England and offer her flying skills to the ATA.

She came through the war uninjured, but once had to make a forced landing when a faulty engine developed heavy vibration (an incident for which she was absolved of responsibility), and once was flying a Spitfire when a badly fitted cockpit cover blew off. After the war she qualified in England as an instructor and, returning to Argentina, flew for the Argentine Air Force and taught its pilots, as well as flying commercially. In 1973 she and her husband, Serban, a retired Romanian diplomat she met at a British Embassy function in Buenos Aires, returned to England, where for the rest of her life, on a farm in Norfolk, she followed her second love - breeding Arab horses. Dunlop built up an outstanding knowledge of bloodlines. She died in 2012.

[intheshadowofwar]

15 June 2023

Scramble

Imperial War Museum Duxford 15 June 2023

The east of England - specifically Cambridgeshire, East Anglia and Lincolnshire - is sometimes known as ‘bomber country.’ It was this region that housed the heavy bombers; the B-17s and B-24s of the US Eighth Air Force and the Lancasters and Halifaxes of RAF Bomber Command. Duxford Aerodrome, just outside Cambridge, was not one of these bases, but it still played a major part of the Combined Bomber Offensive (and of course the Battle of Britain - Czech, Polish and British squadrons flew from there during the height of the battle.) After 1943, it was occupied by the US 78th Fighter Group, flying P-47 and P-51 fighters to escort the bombers to their targets (or as close to their targets as fuel allowed) in Germany and occupied Europe.

We’ll discuss the moral dimension of the Combined Bomber Offensive on Tuesday; the human cost for the USAAF is evident in the nearby American cemetery. 26,000 airman of the Eighth Air Force were killed over Europe. The total number of casualties, 47,000, represented half of the entire total of USAAF casualties in the Second World War. In Bomber Command, it was even worse - 55,573 were killed, an astounding death rate of 44% of all personnel.

Today, Duxford is the home of an annex of the Imperial War Museum. I went there with a good friend from Bedford to show them around; it’s always a very good time, and today was no exception. We noticed a lot of classic cars pottering around when we got there; I later found out that it was a car meet. Essentially, we got a full gauntlet of planes, cars, tanks and artillery. All that was missing were trains and boats.

The museum is divided between three purpose-built exhibition buildings and three hangers, and stretches along the length of the airfield. I’ll admit some of the exhibitions feel a little muddled - the big AirSpace building feels like a smorgasbord of random aircraft at times. Yet a smorgasbord of random aircraft is still a collection of aircraft, and sometimes that’s exactly what you want to see. Lancasters, Vulcans and Concordes are impressive machines wherever they are. Perhaps I am simply becoming a grumpy old man before my time.

I have spoken about Duxford time and time again, but I never have difficulty coming up with highlights to bring up. There’s the He112 jet fighter being cosmetically restored in the conservation hall for example - I’m not certain I’ve ever seen one. There’s the Fairey Swordfish, the unassuming biplane torpedo bomber that crippled the Bismarck. There’s Montgomery’s M3 Grant command tank in the Land Warfare Hall, and an A10 Warthog in the American Air Museum that I swear wasn’t there before.

And there were Spitfires - lots and lots of Spitfires. I don’t think I’ve ever stopped to think about how many Spitfires there are at Duxford. I suppose you can never have too many.

It’s also worth noting that Duxford contains the regimental museums of the Parachute Regiment and the Royal Anglian Regiment. The former is particularly impressive, and somewhat impressively it dedicates a placard to the infamous Bloody Sunday of 1972, where men of 1 PARA opened fire on civilians. I imagine there’s a lot of people who would say that it’s insufficient, but it’s a start.

We grabbed McDonalds for lunch and headed back to Bedford, and I spent a quiet afternoon in. Tomorrow we’re taking the bus down to Cambridge proper, which ought to be an interesting day trip.

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Fat Joe Net Worth? Why Did He Meet The President?

In the United States, Fat Joe is one of the most well-known and successful rappers of all time. He's made it big as a rapper in New York and won widespread acclaim, setting several important industry standards along the way. He grew up in New York, where he was also born.

Fat Joe's Net Worth

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Rapper Fat Joe Meets With President Biden And Congress

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The public service announcement will be broadcast on television and digital platforms across the country to inform the public about the federal hospital rule that, if implemented, would help patients and their families understand the true financial obligations of their healthcare decisions up front, reduce the overall cost of care and insurance, and hold hospitals accountable for price gouging and surprise bills. Shepard Fairey, a well-known street artist, designed the logo for the movement. You Can Read About This Richard Jefferson Net Worth.

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Fat Joe is a New York-based American. Fat Joe has several properties, including a home in New York City. Other than that, he has one in Chicago and a few in Los Angeles. When it comes to automobiles, Fat Joe owns at most a couple. He owns both a Range Rover and a Toyota Corolla. On top of those two, he also has a Chevrolet, which is his favorite of the bunch. Fat Joe operates the vehicle singlehandedly and frequently takes rides all across town. For More Updates You Can Day By Day On The Active News.Com. Read the full article

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(800x599) Fairey Swordfish of the 816th Squadron FAA taking off from HMS Tracker for an anti-submarine sweep in the North Atlantic, WWII.