[www.aviationmegastore.com] Coming Soon : Book : Squadrons! No 16 : The North American Mitchell, The Dutch, French and Poles

Squadrons! No 16 : The North American Mitchell, The Dutch, French and Poles The Mitchell was one of the major medium bombers of the Second World War. It was operated by many air forces during the war including the RAF. The RAF received about 900 Mitchells among them some Mitc http://www.aviationmegastore.com/?action=prodinfo&a…

B-25 Mitchell : BBC - WW2 People's War - My Last Mission with the Dutch 320 Squadron

BBC - WW2 People's War - My Last Mission with the Dutch 320 Squadron I like to express my sincerest thanks to the Canadian Orthopedic Surgeon and his assistants of the Royal ... http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/…

B-25 Flyer : Joseph Marie Phillipe Bongaerts DFC, FC, OHK1

Interesting story of a Dutch airman who flow B-25 with 320 Squadron RAF

Joseph Marie Phillipe Bongaerts DFC, FC, OHK1
War hero and developer of the Groningen gas field

... Jo Bongaerts enlisted in the Marine Luchtvaart Dienst (MLD), the air force of the Royal Netherland Navy, and trained as a pilot in the Dutch East Indies. On returning to Britain he was retrained by the RAF as a navigator and served in Mitchell B25 bombers with 320 Squadron. He was severely injured when his plane crash landed on the 25 October 1943 returning from a raid on a German airfield near Brest and was awarded the DFC. He told his son that “I couldn’t let my friends go to war, alone!” and after eight months in hospital and rehabilitation he retrained as second pilot and returned to active service with 320 Squadron.

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