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New Zealanders in the RAF itself included pilots, such as the first RAF ace of the war, Flying Officer Cobber Kain, Alan Deere ( whose book Nine Lives was one of the first post war accounts of combat ) and leaders such as the World War I ace, Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park, who commanded No. 11 Group RAF in the Battle of Britain and went on to the air defence of Malta and, in the closing stages of the war, Commonwealth air units under South East Asia Command, and Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham Air Tactical Commander of D-Day.
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This " Home Rule " banking confuses New Zealanders on vacation in the Cooks.
To relieve the pressure on the right and centre of the Eighth Army line, XIII Corps on the left advanced from the Qattara box ( known to the New Zealanders as the Kaponga box ).
About 350 New Zealanders were taken prisoner.
Once again, the anti-tank defences were overwhelmed and about 380 New Zealanders were taken prisoner including Captain Charles Upham who gained a second Victoria Cross for his actions including destroying a German tank and several guns and vehicles with grenades despite being shot through the elbow by a machine gun bullet and having his arm broken.
At daybreak on 22 July, Nehring's 5th and 8th Panzer Regiments responded with a rapid counter-attack which quickly overran the New Zealand infantry in the open, inflicting more than 900 casualties on the New Zealanders.
The finish, however, was clouded in controversy: in the final few hours, the Ford GT of New Zealanders Bruce McLaren and Chris Amon closely trailed the leading Ford GT driven by Englishman Ken Miles and New Zealander Denny Hulme.
Total Allied deaths were 43, 000 British, 15, 000 French, 8, 700 Australians, 2, 700 New Zealanders and 1, 370 Indians.
New Zealanders suffered the highest percentage of Allied deaths when compared with population size, but the percentage of Turkish deaths was almost twice theirs.
* The New Zealanders at Gallipoli ( 1919 ) eText
The kiwi is a national symbol of New Zealand, and the association is so strong that the term Kiwi is used all over the world as the colloquial demonym for New Zealanders.
Kiwi is also a colloquial name for New Zealanders.
In Sri Lanka's first triumph on foreign soil, Muralitharan confused the crease-bound New Zealanders on a grassy pitch in Dunedin.
Government has claimed that their priority on roads is in line with New Zealanders ' favoured travel modes, and as being the most promising in terms of economic benefits.
Government has claimed that their priority on roads is in line with New Zealanders ' favoured travel modes, and as being the most promising in terms of economic benefits.
Such perceived or actual safety issues discourage many New Zealanders from cycling.
Paradise Reformed: A History of the New Zealanders ( 2001 )
Sri Lankan New Zealanders comprised 3 % of the Asian population of New Zealand in 2001.
The documentary includes interviews with The Wizard, Mike Moore and many others who narrate a portrait of a man held by many New Zealanders to be a national Icon.
The New Zealanders operated in Military Region 3 with the Australian forces as part of the ANZAC task force ( brigade ) based in Nui Dat in Phuoc Thuy Province, North East of Saigon.
The Germans held the position until withdrawing on May 17, 1944, having repulsed four main offensives by the New Zealanders, British Indian regiment and Polish troops.
However, once Europeans arrived game animals were introduced by acclimatisation societies to provide New Zealanders with sport and a hunting resource.
New and RAF
Heathrow is London's main airport, having replaced RAF Northolt, and together with Gatwick, Southend, Stansted, Luton and London City, London is the busiest city airport system in the world by passenger traffic ( with 133, 666, 888 passengers travelling through the six airports ); and second only to New York City in terms of traffic movements.
* July 2 – 6 – British airship R34 makes the first transatlantic flight by dirigible, and the first westbound flight, from RAF East Fortune, Scotland, to Mineola, New York.
BCATP / EATS remains as one of the single largest aviation training programs in history and was responsible for training nearly half the pilots, navigators, bomb aimers, air gunners, wireless operators and flight engineers who served with the Royal Air Force ( RAF ), Royal Australian Air Force ( RAAF ), Royal Canadian Air Force ( RCAF ) and Royal New Zealand Air Force ( RNZAF ) during the war.
Some pre-war / regular RAAF and RCAF squadrons also served under RAF operational control, while New Zealand and Rhodesian personnel were frequently assigned to RAF squadrons with the honorifics of " and "" in their names.
In 1940, before the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan was fully developed, New Zealand also trained 183 observers and 395 air gunners for the RAF.
Elements may include the government's sinister operative from Men in Black, the military bases known as Area 51, RAF Rudloe Manor or Porton Down, a supposed crash site in Roswell, New Mexico, the Rendlesham Forest Incident, a political committee dubbed the " Majestic 12 " or successor of the UK Ministry of Defence's Flying Saucer Working Party ( FSWP ).
Many other New Zealanders were serving in the RAF.
The fall of Singapore led to the evacuated RNZAF pilots, in the RAF there, becoming available in New Zealand and they provided an experienced nucleus around which new fighter squadrons were formed.
These crews included RAF personnel of several different nationalities, as well as members of the Royal Australian Air Force ( RAAF ), Royal Canadian Air Force ( RCAF ) and Royal New Zealand Air Force ( RNZAF ), who were frequently attached to RAF squadrons under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan.
** July 2 – 6-British airship R34 makes the first transatlantic flight by dirigible, and the first westbound flight, from RAF East Fortune, Scotland, to Mineola, New York.
In October 2008, NRO declassified five mission ground stations: three in the United States, near Washington, D. C .; Aurora, Colorado ; and Las Cruces, New Mexico, and a presence at RAF Menwith Hill, UK, and at the Joint Defence Facility Pine Gap, Australia.
RAF Shawbury is a couple of miles to the east, then the road passes over the Shropshire Way and through Hadnall, passing the New Inn.
Image: No 20 Sqn RAF sergeant with rockets Burma 1945. jpg | Sergeant Albert ( Tinny ) Martin, Royal New Zealand Air Force ( RNZAF ) of Wellington, New Zealand, of No. 20 Squadron, RAF, at Monywa, Central Burma, 17 / 18 March 1945
* September 6 – A captured German Focke-Achgelis Fa 223 V14, makes the first helicopter crossing of the English Channel when it flies from Cherbourg, France, to RAF Beaulieu in the New Forest, Hampshire, England.
In this capacity, he served as an instructor pilot at RAF Lakenheath, UK, and Cannon Air Force Base ( AFB ), New Mexico.
The New Zealand government placed the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy at the Admiralty's disposal and made available to the RAF 30 new Wellington medium bombers waiting in the United Kingdom for shipping to New Zealand.
New and itself
The news of battle on Breed's Hill had already seeped through, and New York itself was now left in the hands of the local Provincial Congress.
The new interchange among the four Los Angeles freeways, including the grade-constructed accesses, occupies by itself no less than eighty acres of downtown land, one-eighth of a square mile, an area about the size of Rockefeller Center in New York.
Common meter hymns were interchangeable with a variety of tunes ; more than twenty musical settings of " Amazing Grace " circulated with varying popularity until 1835 when William Walker assigned Newton's words to a traditional song named " New Britain ", which was itself an amalgamation of two melodies (" Gallaher " and " St. Mary ") first published in the Columbian Harmony by Charles H. Spilman and Benjamin Shaw ( Cincinnati, 1829 ).
* New tribalist American author Daniel Quinn identifies himself as an animist and defines animism not as a religious belief but a religion itself, though with no holy scripture, organized institutions, or established dogma.
This theme lends itself to the title of The Bronx Is Burning, an eight-part ESPN TV mini-series ( 2007 ) about the New York Yankees ' drive to winning baseball's 1977 World Series.
Louisbourg itself was one of the most important commercial and military centres in New France.
Although the Bogotá junta called itself a " Supreme Junta of the New Kingdom of Granada ," it failed to provide political unity, and battles broke out between cities and towns as each tried to defend its sovereignty.
On August 19, 1991, a day before the New Union Treaty was to be signed devolving power to the republics, a group calling itself the " State Emergency Committee " seized power in Moscow declaring that Gorbachev was ill and therefore relieved of his position as president.
With the New Latin period, the language itself came to be regarded as a medium only for " serious " and learned expression, a view that left little room for Latin poetry.
The historical background of Philippians is traditionally gathered from two main primary New Testament sources: ( 1 ) informative internal data from the letter itself and ( 2 ) related information garnered from the rest of the New Testament Canon.
Like its dada and surrealist predecessors, French New Wave editing often drew attention to itself by its lack of continuity, its demystifying self-reflexive nature ( reminding the audience that they were watching a film ), and by the overt use of jump cuts or the insertion of material not often related to any narrative.
In this work he depicted a land where there would be freedom of religion-showing a Jew treated fairly and equally in an island of Christians, but it has been debated whether this work had influenced others reforms, such as greater rights for women, the abolition of slavery, elimination of debtors ' prisons, separation of church and state, and freedom of political expression, although there is no hint of these reforms in The New Atlantis itself.
As the 21st Panzer moved on Minqar Qaim, the New Zealand 2nd Division found itself surrounded.
Gonzo journalism has now become a bona-fide style of writing that concerns itself with " telling it like it is ", similar to the New Journalism of the 1960s, led primarily by Tom Wolfe and also championed by Lester Bangs, George Plimpton, Terry Southern, and John Birmingham — in fact, gonzo journalism is considered a sub-genre of new journalism.
Aside from the Crown itself, the office of Governor of New South Wales is the oldest constitutional office in Australia.
Consequently, although Spain itself accepted the rejection of the Constitution, the rejection of the Constitution was not as calmly accepted in Spain's empire in the New World.
The diversity of early Christianity can be documented from the New Testament record itself.
The New Testament itself speaks of the importance of maintaining correct ( orthodox ) doctrine and refuting heresies, showing the antiquity of the concern.
The most commonly cited explanation is a derivation from the Northern French dialect word hoguinané, or variants such as hoginane, hoginono and hoguinettes, those being derived from 16th century Old French aguillanneuf meaning either a gift given at New Year, a children's cry for such a gift, or New Year's Eve itself.
After GM announced that same day that the sale was to an undisclosed Chinese company, CNN and the New York Times identified the buyer of the Hummer truck unit as China-based Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Company Ltd. Later that day, Sichuan Tengzhong itself announced the deal on their own website.
However, in the case of Hong Kong, irredentism was incidental: The New Territories part of the British colony were only on a lease expiring in 1997 anyway and, with their surrender, it was thought the Crown territory of Hong Kong itself would be nonviable as an entity independent of mainland China.
The same year her first story (" The Lucky Ones ") was published in the November 16, 1946 issue of The New Yorker, and credited to " Alice Bradley " in the magazine itself, but to " Alice Bradley Sheldon " in the magazine's DVD index.
Even in the New Testament itself, Sigve K Tonstad argues, the War in Heaven theme of, in which the dragon " who is called the devil and Satan … was thrown down to the earth ", derives from the passage in Isaiah 14.
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