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British pet massacre. The British pet massacre was a week-long event in 1939 in which an estimated 400,000 cats and dogs, a quarter of England's pet population, were killed so that food used for animals could be reserved to prepare for World War II food shortages. [ 1][ 2]
Nigger was a male black labrador retriever belonging to Wing Commander Guy Gibson of the Royal Air Force, and the mascot of No. 617 Squadron. Gibson owned the dog when he was previously a member of 106 Squadron. Nigger often accompanied Gibson on training flights [ 1] and was a great favourite of the members of both 106 and 617 Squadrons.
John 'Cat's Eyes' Cunningham CBE, DSO & Two Bars, DFC & Bar, AE (27 July 1917 – 21 July 2002) was a Royal Air Force (RAF) night fighter ace during the Second World War and a test pilot. [ 1] During the war, he was nicknamed 'Cat's Eyes' by the British press to explain his successes and to avoid communicating the existence of airborne radar to ...
By 1936, the Royal Air Force Expansion Scheme had overseen a period of rapid increases both in terms of new squadrons and the development of new stations. [5] The former Brattleby site was one of many earmarked under the expansion programme, situated between three villages; Aisthorpe, Brattleby and Scampton, with its main entrance situated on the A15 road (Ermine Street) heading north from ...
But most of the roughly 20,000 American dogs deployed in World War II were family pets, donated by civilians to help bring down Hitler and the Axis powers. The first group of canine enlistees ...
The medal was awarded 54 times between 1943 and 1949 – to 32 pigeons, 18 dogs, 3 horses, and a ship's cat – to acknowledge actions of gallantry or devotion during the Second World War and subsequent conflicts.
RAF Yatesbury. / 51.43694°N 1.92389°W / 51.43694; -1.92389. RAF Yatesbury is a former Royal Air Force airfield near the village of Yatesbury, Wiltshire, England, about 4 miles (6 km) east of the town of Calne. It was an important training establishment in the First and Second World Wars and until its closure in 1965.
Operation Cat Drop is the name given to the delivery of cats, equipment and supplies by the United Kingdom 's Royal Air Force to remote regions of the then-British colony of Sarawak (today part of Malaysia ), on the island of Borneo in 1960. [ 1] The cats were flown out of Singapore and delivered in crates dropped by parachutes as part of a ...