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30 de mai. de 2024 · Sir John Cotesworth Slessor was a British marshal of the Royal Air Force (RAF) who was one of the architects of British air strategy during and after World War II. A childhood victim of polio, Slessor was at first rejected for military service in World War I but managed to gain entry to the Royal.
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Há 1 dia · Air Chief Marshal Sir John Slessor, who became Chief of the Air Staff in 1950, wrote that year that the Soviet superiority in European forces was so great that even "an ultimatum by Russia within the next two to three years" might cause Western Europe to surrender without a war.
Há 1 dia · The campaign peaked from mid-1940 through to the end of 1943. The Battle of the Atlantic pitted U-boats and other warships of the German Kriegsmarine (Navy) and aircraft of the Luftwaffe (Air Force) against the Royal Navy, Royal Canadian Navy, United States Navy, and Allied merchant shipping.
Há 1 dia · Slessor’s intricate exploration of the nature of human experiences conveys his postulation of the diversity within the human experience, illuminating the paradoxes and inconsistencies in human behaviour that contribute to the aforementioned dissimilitude.
28 de mai. de 2024 · Air Vice-Marshal John Slessor wrote in a 1942 internal memo that while bombing German civilians was the policy, “it is unnecessary and undesirable in any document about our bombing policy to proclaim it.”
27 de mai. de 2024 · The following is a list of notable autobiographies : By profession. See also. Lists of books. References. Footnotes. ^ Published in English as Days on the Wing in 1934 and Flying In Flanders in 1971. ^ This would later be re-edited and published in English as Stuka Pilot.
Há 2 dias · Kenneth Adolphe Slessor (27 March 1901 – 30 June 1971) was an Australian poet, journalist and official war correspondent in World War II. He was one of Australia's leading poets, notable particularly for the absorption of modernist influences into Australian poetry. The Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry is named after him.
