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Clipped Signature - Sir John Gingell. - Cranston Military Prints

Clipped Signature - Sir John Gingell.


Clipped Signature - Sir John Gingell.

Flew Seafire and Firefly aircraft in the Fleet Air Arm, then later Mosquito and Canberra photographic aircraft wth No.58 Sqn. He commanded No.27 Sqn flying Vulcans and retired in 1984 as Air Chief Marshal. He died in 2009.

Please note that this particular signature has been written in pen - not in pencil like most of our signatures.
Item Code : CLP2930Clipped Signature - Sir John Gingell. - Editions Available
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Clipped Signature.
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Gingell, John

Died : 2009
Air Chief Marshal Sir John Gingell GBE KCB KCVO (deceased)
Sir John joined the Royal Air Force in 1943 and, following flying training in the United States transferred to the Fleet Air Arm in 1945 to fly Seafire and Firefly aircraft until he left the Service in 1946. He rejoined the Royal Air Force in 1951 to fly photographic reconnaissance Mosquito and Canberra aircraft with No.58 Sqn. On graduating as a Qualified Flying Instructor from Central Flying School in 1954 he instructed at No.231 Operational Conversion Unit.

Following a ground tour
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The swaggering figure of the Reichsmarshal swept imperiously into the Air Ministry on Berlin's Wilhemstrasse, his jewel-encrusted baton and extravagant uniform as flamboyant as ever. This was Saturday, 30th January 1943, the tenth Anniversary of the Nazi Party coming to power, and Goering was about to deliver the main speech in tribute to the Party and its leader, the Fuhrer - Adolf Hitler. The Royal Air Force had other plans for the anniversary. In stark defiance of the imagined air security safeguarding Berlin, brave pilots of 105 and 139 Sqn's took to the air in de Havilland Mosquitoes, on course for Germany. Their mission: RAF Bomber Command's first daylight raid on Berlin! The raid was timed to perfection and three Mosquitoes of 105 Sqn raced headlong, low level towards their target - the Haus des Rundfunks, headquarters of the German State broadcasting company. It was an hour before Goering could finally be broadcast. He was boiling with rage and humiliation. A few hours later, adding further insult, Mosquitoes from 139 Sqn swept over the city in a second attack moments before Goebbels addressed a Nazi mass rally in the Sportpalast. Goering's promise that enemy aircraft would never fly over the Reich was broken, the echo of that shame would haunt him for the rest of the war. This dramatic painting pays tribute to this pivotal moment in the war, capturing the Mosquito B.Mk.IVs of 105 Sqn departing the target area, following their successful strike on the Haus des Rundfunk.

Strike on Berlin by Anthony Saunders.		 Leonard Cheshire VC is one of the most outstanding of all RAF Bomber Pilots. He devised the master bomber technique - flying low over the target marking with flares, allowing the main force to pinpoint the target in the darkness. Cheshire flew over 100 operational missions and was awarded the Victoria Cross for his supreme courage.

Mosquito into Attack by Robert Taylor. 		A pair of de Havilland Mosquito NF. MkII night fighters of 23 Squadron, based at Bradwell Bay, Essex in 1942.

Night Raiders by Ivan Berryman. 		When De Havilland built the prototype DH.98 Mosquito (E-0234) they did so as an act of the purest faith in their design since the Air Ministry had already dismissed the companys proposal for their all-wood aircraft as impractical and unworkable. However, when E-0234 first flew on 25th November 1940, it demonstrated remarkably smooth handling characteristics and its speed, as expected, was outstanding. Here at last was a bomber which, in a straight line, could outfly even the Spitfire, giving rise to such nicknames as Wooden Wonder and, succicntly The Aeroplane. With such an aircraft, it was soon realised, many new possibilities were laid open to the RAF, among them the chance to initiate precision raids whereupon carefully selected isolated targets could be attacked with pinpoint accuracy. Just such a raid took place on 18th February 1944, involving 18 Mosquitoes of Nos 64 and 487 Squadrons in an operation on the jail at Amiens, France, where a large number of the French Resistance were being held for questioning by the Gestapo. It was thought unlikely that any of them would survive their ordeal at the hands of their inquisitors and it was considered more sensible to try to aid their escape by breaching the prison walls, even if it meant that some of the prisoners might be killed in the process. An accurate model of the jail and the nearby town was constructed and each pilot viewed the model from eye level to familiarise themselves with the view that they would get from a planned height of 50 feet. With this knowledge and some carefully selected reference points such as church spires and chimneys, the Mosquitoes, led by Group Captain Charles Pickard, were able to brush over the rooftops of the town and deliver their bombs with incredible accuracy, breaching the prison walls in four places. 258 prisoners escaped in the ensuing chaos and were quickly spirited away by other Resistance groups who were waiting outside. Sadly, a number of French prisoners were killed in the raid and added to the losses of that day was Group Captain Pickard himself who fell victim to marauding Focke Wulf 190s, but the raid had been a tremendous success and further precision attacks using the most superb Mosquito were carried out throughout 1944 and 1945, each one making its own significant contribution to the downward turn in the fortunes of Hitlers Reich.

Breakout. Amiens Raid by Mosquitos by Ivan Berryman.
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Air Chief Marshal Sir John Gingell GBE KCB KCVO (deceased)
Died : 2009
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Gingell, John
(Air Chief Marshal Sir John Gingell GBE KCB KCVO (deceased))

Sir John joined the Royal Air Force in 1943 and, following flying training in the United States transferred to the Fleet Air Arm in 1945 to fly Seafire and Firefly aircraft until he left the Service in 1946. He rejoined the Royal Air Force in 1951 to fly photographic reconnaissance Mosquito and Canberra aircraft with No.58 Sqn. On graduating as a Qualified Flying Instructor from Central Flying School in 1954 he instructed at No.231 Operational Conversion Unit.

Following a ground tour with the Air Plans Staff at HQ Near East Air Force, he returned to the United Kingdom in 1963 to command No.27 Squadron operating Vulcan bombers from RAF Scampton, near Lincoln.

In 1966 he joined the Defence Staff at the Ministry of Defence, serving initially as a member of the briefing staff and then as Deputy Director (Defence Operations). Two years later he became Military Assistant to the Chairman of the NATO Military Committee in Brussels.

He was appointed Air Officer Administration at HQ Royal Air Force Germany in 1971, and then in 1973 as Air Officer Commanding No.23 Group, Training Command, at Linton-on-Ouse, Yorkshire. He was Assistant Chief of Defence Staff (Policy) from 1975 until he became a member of the Air Force Board in 1978 as Air Member for Personnel. On 1st July 1980 Sir John was appointed Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Royal Air Force Support Command at Brampton, Cambridgeshire. He was promoted to the rank of Air Chief Marshal and appointed Deputy Commander-in-Chief, Allied Forces Central Europe in April 1981, retiring in 1984. Following retirement, he served in parliament until 1992 as Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod. He became a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1973, and a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1978. He died on 10th December 2009.
Squadrons Related to This Print
No.58 Sqn
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