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Number 76 Squadron was a squadron of the Royal Air Force. It was formed during World War I as a home defence fighter squadron and in its second incarnation during World War II flew as a bomber squadron, first as an operational training unit and later as an active bomber squadron.
RAF Shipton was brought into use in September 1916 as a landing site for No. 76 (Home Defence) Squadron, RAF. The site is 4 miles (6.4 km) south east of RAF Linton-on-Ouse, 5 miles (8 km) north of York, [1] and 1.9 miles (3 km) north of Shipton by Beningbrough village. [2]
Probably exhausted and benumbed with cold he sank and drifted under the ice while witnesses were making hasty efforts to rescue him. His body was recovered two days later about 200 feet from where he went into the river. Both men had engaged in many flights of the RAF, Harmon being credited with twenty-seven bombing raids over Germany.
76 Squadron, 76th Squadron or No. 76 Squadron may refer to: No. 76 Squadron RAAF, a unit of the Royal Australian Air Force; No. 76 Squadron RAF, a unit of the United Kingdom Royal Air Force; 76th Fighter Squadron, a unit of the United States Air Force; 76th Air Refueling Squadron, a unit of the United States Air Force
The bodies were then left for retrieval, after which they were cremated and returned to Stalag Luft III. [ 4 ] British Military Intelligence was made aware of the extraordinary events even during conditions of wartime by letters home and as a result of communications from the protecting power , Switzerland, which as a neutral party regularly ...
A U.S. Army soldier from the 82nd Airborne Division with a dead insurgent's hand on his shoulder. On April 18, 2012, the Los Angeles Times released photos of U.S. soldiers posing with body parts of dead insurgents, [1] [2] after a soldier in the 82nd Airborne Division gave the photos to the Los Angeles Times to draw attention to "a breakdown in security, discipline and professionalism" [3 ...
NOAA and its research partners shared the first glimpses in decades of a German submarine U-576 downed off the coast of North Carolina during World War II.
Three Kittyhawks from No. 76 Squadron RAAF landed on the airstrip on 22 July, while additional aircraft from No. 76 and also No. 75 Squadron RAAF arrived on 25 July. [25] They found that only 4,950 by 80 feet (1,509 by 24 m) of the 6,000-by-100-foot (1,829 by 30 m) runway was covered with Marston Matting , and that water was frequently over it.