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Air Commodore Jagdev Chandra, (Punjabi) (6 Oct 1916- 19 Apr 1991), Royal Indian Air force and later one of the first recruits of Indian Air Force, was a war veteran, served with excellence in Burma during World War 2.
This silenced the guns, and the road was cleared of wreckage by armoured bulldozers, while infantry mopped up, thus setting a pattern for the rest of the advance towards Valkenswaard and Eindhoven.
One of the fleets most important ports of call was Port Radium, on Great Bear Lake, the source of much of the Uranium used by the Manhattan Project during World War 2.
It was the last appearance for Charles Hawtrey in any of Hay's films when Hay dropped Hawtrey for wanting a bigger role, it was most recently mentioned on "Charles Hawtrey: That funny fella with the glasses" broadcast in April 2010 on BBC Radio 4, it was also Hay's last film on the subject of World War 2.
However, during World War 2 John Randall and Harry Boot built on Hull's concept to develop the modern cavity magnetron, the first device which could produce high power at microwave frequencies, and the resulting centimeter-band radar proved a crucial advantage for the Allies in aerial warfare.
These evolved throughout the interwar period to ultimately culminate in the post World War 2 Supermarine Seagull, which was to have replaced the wartime Walrus and the Sea Otter but was overtaken by advances in helicopters.
4) Two one million candlepower lamps pointing downwards at an angle to estimate height above the forest canopy, using a similar principle to that adopted for night flying during the 617 Squadron Dams raids in World War 2 and developed by Barnes Wallis (for whom the machine was named),
During an October 2007 campaign stop in commemorating a World War 2 Nazi battleship captain in Ajax, PC leader John Tory pledged to build a 100 foot monument to Nazi War Dead from the second world war in the "shape of a swastika."
Blacker Bombard, an anti-tank weapon used by British forces during the early part of World War 2
During World War 2, he served as a lieutenant commander in the US Navy's Dental Corps, and was called up again for active duty in 1950 at the time of the Korean War.
The central theses of logical positivism (verificationism, the analytic-synthetic distinction, reductionism, etc.) came under sharp attack after World War 2 by thinkers such as Nelson Goodman, W.V. Quine, Hilary Putnam, Karl Popper, and Richard Rorty.
Selwyn Jepson of the Far House, well-known author and intelligence officer in World War 2.
Pierre de Froment, French member of the resistance during World War 2 and subsequently General.
Lowell Mellett (1886 - 1960) was a journalist best known for supervising the series Why We Fight during World War 2.
During World War 2, it was used as a ballast weight to test Bailey bridges.
Despite being a small museum, several of the exhibits are unique survivors, these include a Miles Martinet, World War 2 target tug, the only Miles Student two seat side-by-side jet trainer ever built and a Fairey Jet Gyrodyne — a composite helicopter and autogyro, or gyrodyne.
Operation Wunderland, the German World War 2 naval operation in the Arctic
Paul Leaman Clark, World War 2 beachmaster who had a Sentinel-class cutter named in his honor
A 3-pounder Hotchkiss was used on an improvised mounting in a battle that resulted in Australia's first prisoners of World War 2 being captured in 1940 near Berbera.
Born October 8, 1960 in Lachine, Quebec, he was one of five children born to James Moffat, a decorated World War 2 hero with the Royal Canadian Air Force and the Belgian and French Resistance whose wartime memoir was published in "Behind Enemy Lines", and to Anne Dosman Moffat, a Prairie survivor of the Depression and the Dustbowl of Saskatchewan in the 1930s.
Several ships have been named after the island, including modern Hydra class frigate F 453 Spetsai, the World War 2 era destroyer Greek destroyer Spetsai (D 98) and the historic Greek battleship Spetsai .
First was David Beatty, 2nd Earl Beatty in 1937: they were divorced after World War 2, whereupon she married Peregrine Cust, 6th Baron Brownlow.
In 1998, salvager Paul Tidwell and his company Cape Verde Explorations led an expedition to the wreck site of the World War 2 Japanese cargo submarine I-52 in the mid-Atlantic.
Erich Hartmann (born April 19, 1922, in Weissach, died September 20, 1993 in Weil im Schönbuch) was a Luftwaffe pilot in World War 2.
Erich Hartmann (born April 19, 1922, in Weissach, died September 20, 1993 in Weil im Schönbuch) was a Luftwaffe pilot in World War 2.
There were also problems with the Federation's proposed capital in Chaguaramas, at that time still in the hands of the United States (having leased it as a naval base from the United Kingdom during World War 2).