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... automatically to the Radar equipment. It was this combination that proved such a deadly force against flying bombs in the Second World War. ...
... From 1931 to 1936 he practised as a Land Agent and then became a director of Calor Gas (South Western Ltd.). During the Second World War, he served in the Middle East and Europe as a Major (temporary) in the King's Royal Rifle Corps. Mr. Pleydell-Bouverie ...
... in London on March 31, 1924. He was educated at Eton and served in the Royal Air Force as a pilot from 1941-45 in the Second World War. After the war he joined a firm of stockbrokers and in 1955 became a director of Holland Hannen and Cubitts. Besides ...
... Davics's book of his experiences during his term in the Soviet capital, and the ferment of events which preceded the second World War. We give here parallel figures of this dramatic piece of history the chief personalities in real life, and their film ...
... baronet and raised the Lovat Scouts and the present Lord Lovat, Simon Christopher Joseph Fraser, the Commando leader of the Second World War and the present leader of the Clan Fraser, all belong to that same fighting tradition. Last week Lord Lovat stood upon ...
... instruction evolved by No. I Parachute and Ghder Training School, which prepared so many parachutists for action during the Second World War Dalloons were used in warfare as far back as 1794 for observing the enemy. The British first used the balloon for war ...
... picture and commemorates Commonwealth members of the Air Forces who lost their lives while stationed in Canada during the Second World War and who have no known graves. The central feature of the memorial is a sculptured terrestrial bronze globe 10 ft. in ...
... Born in Sheffield in 1912, Peter Geoffrey Roberts was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge. Before the Second World War, he practised at the Bar, at the Inner Temple. He then served in the Coldstream Guards. First elected to the House of ...
... bays, the quiet, and the mild, equable climate being the chief attractions. Sark was occupied by the Germans during the Second World War. In the second year of their occupation the Germans sent Mrs. Sybil Mary Hatha way, the Dame of Sark, to a concen tration ...
... obliterating 1,000-bomber raid in which the upper part of the island was pitted from end to end with bomb craters. After the Second World War Britain did not leave Heligoland s dir- armament to the Germans, and the wholesale demolitions by a Royal Naval party ...
... four Inns of Court, the legal university of England, narrowly escaped severe damage in the First World War, and in the Second World War the Great Hall was almost destroyed during German attacks on London in 1940 and 1944. The library, with much of its contents ...
... test the possibilities of modern warships for launching rocket attacks When rocket warfare emerged as a factor in the Second World War it was realised immediately that the warship of the future might have to undergo vast modifications. America has been ...