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Dear Jan
Great to receive your reply ref my other enquiry and for the reminder about your site..which I have visited before but was glad to be reminded of.
The site is well presented, easy to read and obviously popular with serious searchers and, also, with British aristocracy (Lord Faulkner:->).
I will be surfing in often from now on. One suggestion for you...does your web-page set-up package allow for an internal Search facility? Serious searchers will obviously enjoy reading through the entries anyway but a search option might help?
Meantime, for the attention of Steve Hamilton, who asked in April, 2010 about Halifax LV826 I offer:
http://100548.activeboard.com/t27699209/halifax-lv...
this seems to offer a final, though not definite, answer.
Also, as you know, I have a long-term interest in the 1945 mutiny and partisan campaign on the Dutch island of Texel, an island with many links to wartime Allied aircraft fly-overs and shoot-downs. This rebellion took place between 06 April and 20 May 1945.
During the rebellion, the Dutch Resistance sent two signals about it to London. A group of 10 Dutchmen and 4 NCOs of the above Wehrmacht's 822nd Georgia Infantry Battalion also stole Texel's lifeboat, the Joan Hodshon, and sailed it to Norfolk, England.
The escapees carried to the UK two letters. One pledged the rebelling Soviet troops' continuing allegiance to Stalin and the USSR. Another urged the Allies to send troops or a naval force to Texel, to bombard German positions, including Texel's two coastal batteries which the Georgians failed to capture, and to airdrop supplies and ammunition to the Georgians holding the island's largely disused Voight airfield.
As the UK Foreign Office later apologised for, in a 1946 Pravda statement, no Allied support was sent to what was then seen as a peripheral and strategically needless diversion. HOWEVER...the punchline...
It is known that a single Allied reconnaissance aircraft DID check out the situation, an aircraft which the German commander on Texel ordered should be left alone in case firing on it drew Allied retaliation. WHICH aircraft flew that mission, from WHERE did it fly and to WHERE did it return, WHO were its crew, WHAT was their report and ARE there any surviving FOTOS, OPS LOGS or personal memoirs?
Also, I somewhere, on-line, read – but have lost my copy of it - that at least one USAAF mission may have been flown in support of the Texel rebels and that this mission was flown against German coastal guns in Den Helder, the Dutch mainland port and Naval base town immediately facing Texel across the Marsdiep seaway.
Again..the same questions apply and can anyone throw light on that mission?
Also, At WHICH Allied command levels and by which senior personnel were the above missions discussed, proposed and ordered? Do any related INTEL reports survive?
Slightly off-topic but still important and interesting aspects of the airwar over Noord-Holland.
I hope that someone can advise and help me. Reciprocal help assured.
Groetjes..Alan Newark
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