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RAF 41: Parents Pointed and Whispered to Children … … ‘Spitfire!’ …
Kenneth Webb Kenneth Webb

RAF 41: Parents Pointed and Whispered to Children … … ‘Spitfire!’ …

“Confrontation at Beachy Head” by William S Phillips, framed signed edition 940/1000 owned by Kenneth Thomas Webb and which is mounted in the Study.

Beachy Head, East Sussex is the prominent headland on the English Channel coast , famous for its chalk cliffs, more than 500 ft (150 m) high, rand which mark the seaward extension of the South Downs.

Here is invader and defender.

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RAF 38:  ‘And Fifty Nine of Our Aircraft Have Failed to Return’
Kenneth Webb Kenneth Webb

RAF 38: ‘And Fifty Nine of Our Aircraft Have Failed to Return’

Flt Lt Ken Webb, the nephew of Sgt Plt Kenneth E Webb, giving an Address at the Memorial Ceremony on 4 August 2018.
I remember this point well. I was remarking that beneath me, the pilot and crew had come to rest, where I stand is the exact outward reach of the shattered cockpit perspex during excavations, and no one in my family would have thought that this would one day happen. That it did, is entirely due to the tireless work of IG HEIMATFORSCHUNG Rheinland-Phalz and the lead archaeologist, Erik Wieman. KTW

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RAF 15: Operation Frothblower ~ Plzen 16-17 April 1943 (revised edition)
Kenneth Webb Kenneth Webb

RAF 15: Operation Frothblower ~ Plzen 16-17 April 1943 (revised edition)

The starboard wing of a Handley Page Halifax in the Yorkshire Air Museum at the former RAF Elvington, Yorkshire. I took this picture standing just below the cockpit where my father’s brother, Sgt-Plt Kenneth Webb sat in his own Halifax Mk V DK165 MP-E.

Beneath the starboard outer engine stands a Messerschmitt Bf 109. I was really pleased to see how the two aircraft were displayed, for it also shows the size of the attacker and the size of the defender, both lethal in their own way.

Kenneth Webb Flt Lt Rtd
Nephew of Sergeant Pilot Kenneth Webb RAF (1921-1943)

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RAF 5: Air Chief Marshal Sir Christopher Foxley-Norris GCB DSO OBE and His Tribute to the Polish and Czech Squadrons

RAF 5: Air Chief Marshal Sir Christopher Foxley-Norris GCB DSO OBE and His Tribute to the Polish and Czech Squadrons

A Hawker Hurricane awaits the “scramble”. We get an idea of the kit worn when flying and fighting for one’s life. Image is believed to be of a hurricane Squadron during the Battle of Britain 10 Jul-30 August 1940 ‘somewhere in Britain’, its source possibly being IWM. As soon as the correct sourse and data is located, this will be updated and credited.

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RAF 36: Will They Get Us, Dad? What Are We Going To Do, Dad?
Kenneth Webb Kenneth Webb

RAF 36: Will They Get Us, Dad? What Are We Going To Do, Dad?

Children watch the battle raging high above the City of London during the Battle of Britain, 1940. Against all odds, and in defiance of those who were cynical, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland held firm. What the British People did in 1940, the Ukrainian People are doing now in 2024, and they are doing it that we who believe in freedom and democracy, will see Putinism defeated.

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RAF 34: Short Stirling BK716 HA-J (Revised Edition)

RAF 34: Short Stirling BK716 HA-J (Revised Edition)

1:2 This superb monument is in Almere, near Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Partly made with the engine of Short Stirling BK716 from 218 (Gold Coast) Sqn that was salvaged from the Markermeer. It flew from RAF Downham Market, Norfolk.
2:2 Amongst the wreckage were the remains of the crew (five British and two Canadian) who will be buried in Jonkerbos Military cemetery today. Source: Battlefields Experience, the link to which can be found in this Paper.

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RFC 1: The Royal Flying Corps ~ An Introduction

RFC 1: The Royal Flying Corps ~ An Introduction

I’d enjoyed reading the Biggles stories as a boy in the early 1960s when they came out each Saturday in picture format; and very soon I moved on to the Second World War. Very quickly, the predecessor to the Royal Air Force faded into memory.

Finding this title on a visit to Winchcombe in March 2023 well, what a find! Why so?

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RAF 39: Hiding in Plain Sight
Kenneth Webb Kenneth Webb

RAF 39: Hiding in Plain Sight

To hide in plain sight, to carry false guilt, to know what will happen because texts written thousands of years ago are regarded as at the behest of some Deity… THAT is a glimpse of Hell on Earth

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When the English Language is at its Most Eloquent
Kenneth Webb Kenneth Webb

When the English Language is at its Most Eloquent

Portrait of Alexander Hamilton depicting him addressing the Assembly, Congress, Capitol Hill, Washington DC and where the portrait hangs in the Library at Congress. One wonders what would have happened to it had the Rioters succeeded in their storming of the Capitol on 6 January 2021?

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