John Anthony Logan Currie, DFC (7 December 1921 – 19 October 1996) was an officer in the Royal Air Force (RAF) and an author. After serving during the...
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(English footballer) (born 2001) Jack Currie (RAF officer) (1921–1996), officer in the Royal Air Force John Allister Currie (1868–1931), Ontario author, journalist...
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aircraft. Michael Bentine – Intelligence Officer Colin Tapley – Flying Control Officer Eric Simms – bomb-aimer Jack Currie, Lancaster (later Mosquito) pilot...
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Tomlinson, Raymond Huntley, Finlay Currie, Richard Attenborough, John Laurie and Michael Hordern. Based on a 1942 RAF training film for would-be 'boffins'...
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at any one time. In reviewing the mission, author and former RAF bomber pilot Jack Currie noted "That a planning staff could contemplate, or a commander...
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of their way of life, and hamper construction as much as they can. An RAF officer, sent to negotiate with the people, falls in love with Janet Macleod...
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for Watsonians. Peter Baikie, Scottish comedian and composer Finlay Currie, actor Jack Docherty, Scottish writer, actor, presenter and producer Jamie Drummond...
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First World War "Blondie" – Arnold Walker, RAF pilot Herbert Hasler, Second World War Royal Marines officer "Blood" – J. A. L. Caunter, British general...
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into one of the four houses: Shaw, Currie, Pottinger or Cairns, named after past pupils: James Shaw, Donald Currie, Henry Pottinger, and Hugh Cairns,...
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headquarters at RAF Uxbridge; commands flowing through the system as normal to Sector control rooms and from there to the airfields. An RAF officer from Hut...
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Sword Aviation. Currie, Jack (1987). The Augsburg raid: the story of one of the most dramatic and dangerous raids ever mounted by RAF Bomber Command....
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Ben-Hur William Wyler Jack Hawkins, Haya Harareet, Stephen Boyd, Martha Scott, Cathy O'Donnell, Sam Jaffe, Hugh Griffith, Finlay Currie The Wreck of the Mary...
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given to British civilian ships and their associated crews, including officers and ratings. In the UK, it is simply referred to as the Merchant Navy or...
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Ashworth, Chris (1995). RAF Bomber Command 1936–1968. Somerset, UK: Haynes Publishing. ISBN 978-1-85260-308-3. Currie, Jack (1987). The Augsburg raid:...
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of No. 35 Squadron RAF, flying Mosquitos Werner Schaumann, 16, a loader of 826 FlaK Battery, a German 20mm anti-aircraft unit Jack Harris, 24, a pilot...
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investigation into reports of antisemitism during a performance by comedian Paul Currie at the Soho Theatre in London, which left Jewish audience members feeling...
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Tactical strikes were also carried out by the RAF including Operation Chastise, where No. 617 Squadron RAF attacked German dams in the Ruhr valley using...
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thanks to its defensive armament of as many as 16 machine guns. CIA officer Jack Ryan (played by Alec Baldwin) is flown from an aircraft carrier to the...
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Extra-Terrestrial Universal $359,197,037 2 Tootsie Columbia $177,200,000 3 An Officer and a Gentleman Paramount $129,795,554 4 Rocky III United Artists $124...
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Grange Crowley, The Yorkshire Regiment, March 2008 Corporal Anthony William Currie, The King's Own Scottish Borderers, April 2004 Kingsman Michael Davison...
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Peter Brookes (category Royal Air Force officers)
1943, the son of an RAF Squadron Leader and he attended Heversham Grammar School, Westmorland. After school, he initially joined the RAF to train as a pilot...
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Steven Spielberg (category Officers of the Legion of Honour)
from the original on January 1, 2021. Retrieved December 16, 2020. Casert, Raf (October 22, 2011). "Tintin has world premiere in Belgian hometown". Today...
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"(Untitled)". Retrieved February 10, 2022. "Air of Authority – A History of RAF Organisation". www.rafweb.org. 2007. Archived from the original on January...
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(1937–2014), British Army officer and Commandant of the British Sector in Berlin 1985–1989 Brian Burnett (1913–2011), British RAF Air Chief Marshal who was...
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the Islands of Refreshment. Three of the four men died in 1812 and Thomas Currie (Tommaso Corri, from Livorno, Italy), one of the original three, remained...
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greeted the Brits as they bused through Americus to the school. Jack Currie, a young RAF cadet who soloed at Souther in early 1942, survived the war, and...
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series Noel Thompson, BBC journalist Air Chief Marshal John Thomson, RAF officer Paddy Wallace, rugby union footballer for Ireland Robyn Ward, Irish contemporary...
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Kingdom, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Public Health Edwina Currie provoked outrage by stating that most of Britain's egg production was infected...
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Arthur Miller, Executive Officer, General Post Office. Observer Commander David Miller, Royal Observer Corps. Denise Currie Spencer Milligan, Commandant...
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June 2010. Maguire 1963, p. 190. "RAF RAF History Timeline 1942." Archived 6 December 2010 at the Wayback Machine raf.mod.uk, 2012 [last update]. Retrieved:...
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