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... possible a high standard of proficiency among the ' Ack-Ack gunners. Nor should one forget the searchlight crews and the Royal Observer Corps, both of whom play an important part against the night raider. ON THE TRACK Although the searchlights rarely illuminate ...
... started on June 18, to Civil Defence personnel. Including the auxiliary police and National Fire Service, and members the Royal Observer Corps and N-A-A-B .!- ...
... OBSERVER CORPS Necessity for “Alert Minds” The need for “alert minds, quick reacUon and cool nerve in the| Royal Observer Corps was advanced by Sir Archibald Sinclair, Secretary for Air, in the House of Commons, Westminster, yester- ' day. ...
... known to him and his staff otHcers. Squadrons of day and night fighters went up, and the antiaircraft defences and Royal Observer Corps units, went into action. Many of the flying bombs have been intercepted and destroyed over the Channel before they ...
... announced early this morning that the bodies the six members the crew had been recovered. Experienced ex-members of the Royal Observer Corps, who were among the searchers, were of the opinion that the machine might have drifted out to sea or if it had exploded ...
... disqualified from driving for two years. ROYAL OBSERVER CORPS Bi(f exercise with R.A.F. Some 3,000 members of the Royal Observer Corps, both men and women, will take part in an exercise to-morrow over the ...
... fire brigades. The gratuity would also be paid to ‘other ranks of the Royal Observer Corps and the auxiliary coastguard. Special considerations applied to officers of the Royal Observer Corns, and this question must examined separately. I ...
... public expression of appreciation of their splendid record.” The Air Ministry has announced that the stand-down of the Royal Observer Corps .will begin simultaneously with the disbandment arrangements for the Civil Defence general services. ...
... water. Gunners on the coast fired at an enemy bomber caught by searchlights, and saw one of their shells hit the tail. Royal Observer Corps men say they saw the same plane going out towards the sea losing height rapidly and on fire. Another bomber crashed ...
... links—the Royal Observer Corps, who spot and identify the hostile aircraft from nearly 1.500 posts; the Royal Corps of Signals, whose job it is to maintain the vital communications between guns, search, lights and gun operation rooms: the ...
... determined. The credits will not be subject to income tax. Details are also issued to how the scheme will apply to the Royal Observer Corps and the Auxiliary Coastguard Service. ...
... defences will include all first-line squadrons of Fighter Command. R.A.F, radar reporting stations, the Royal Observer Corps, operational flights of the Royal Auxiliary Air Force, anti-aircraft units and civil defence forces. From their bases “Southland’s” ...