Err I am going on when he got his DFC awarded rather than the date of the service he gave to his country Spidge Tony
D B Thomas DFC 90 SQN (Stirling pilot NZAF) RIP a good job done 5th June 1944 Dropping Decoys over Normandy Operation Titanic
looks like it pretty quite at the moment cheers Tony must be d day eve
Really hope all goes well for you tomorrow Cheers Tony
Yes it does have long way to go looked all my chaps and not one listed .I hate that Cheers Tony IT will be a massive DB when mostly finished
Hi no missed by a long way i am a medal collector and very much a Airforce Fan i was in the RAAF from 1981 to 1993 .The plane on my signature is the...
Thanks Annie great site and without sounding like copy cat frenchy said how calm the crew sounded ,if you did not know ,you would think it was not...
Operation "Meeting house" USAAF fire bomb attack on Tokyo (Mar 9, 1945) Cheers Tony
Operation" hailstone" US carrier attack on Truk Island (Feb 16 - 17, 1944) Cheers AJ
Operation "Grenade" US Ninth Army movement toward Rhine River (Feb 23, 1945) Cheers Tony
Operation"roads end" Allied destruction of Japanese ships that survived the war (Feb 1946) Cheers AJ
Aldertag ,Code name for the day of intense German air attack on Britain (Eagle Day) 15th September 1940. Now celebrated in England as the Battle of...
Crossbow ,Operational code name for Allied attacks on V-1 launch sites Cheers AJ
Catapult ,Operational code name for the destruction of the French Fleet by the British in North Africa, July 1940
Citadel ,Operational code name for the German attack on the Soviet forces near Kursk, July 1943 Cheers AJ
Cobra ,Operational code name for the American breakout from Normandy in July 1944 Cheers AJ
Chastise ,Operational code name for the "Dam Busters" raid by 617 squadron RAF in May 1943, on the Mohne, Eder and Sorpe dams in the Ruhr area of...
Bagration ,Operational codename for Soviet strategic offensive against the German Army Group Centre, June 1944 Cheers AJ
Bestrafung ,Operational code name for German "punishment" air attacks on Belgrade, April 1941 cheers AJ
Brimstone ,Operational code name for the proposed Allied invasion of Sardinia, 1944 Cheers AJ
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