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Category : Archive Stories, John Barney Hines
Tags: 45th Battalion, AIF, Australian Barbarian, Belgium, British Army, Cam Finlay, England, France, John Barney Hines, Liverpool, Mills bombs, New Zealand, Passchendaele, Polygon Wood, Souvenir King
Message from Cam Finlay about John “Barney” Hines, 1917, 45th Battalion AIF, France and Belgium
John “Barney” Hines (photo) was a real thorn in the side of the German army during World War I, so much so that the Kaiser put a price on his head “dead or alive”. Hines had the happy knack of being able to wreck German pill boxes which threatened Australian troops using his favourite Mills bombs (grenades). On top of that, he became a master at souveniring, looting all sorts of items from dead and captured Germans and returning triumphant to the Australian lines. So good was he that he became known as the “Souvenir King”.
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Category : Adolf Galland, Luftwaffe
Tags: 17 Fighter Sq, 3 Staffel J/88, 303 Sqn, 50th Fighter Group, 54 Fighter Sq, 56th Fighter Sq, Argentine Air Force, Asturias, B-17, B-26, Battle of Britain, Belgium, Bf 110, Boleslaw Drobinski, Boulogne, Brest, Brillanten, Brunswick, Chatham, Commercial Air Transport School, Condor Legion, Count Manfred Czernin, Dover, Ebro, Eichenlauben, England, EprGr 210, Fighter Pilot School, Folkestone, French Campaign, Fw 190, General der Jagdflieger, Germany, Geschwader Adjutant, Geschwaderstab, Gneisenau, Gruppenkommandeur, Harold Bird-Wilson, Heinkel He-51, Henschel H 123, I./JG 51, II./JG 51, III./JG 26, Invasion of Poland, JG 27, JV 44, Krefeld, Lechfeld, Liège, Lt Al Deere, Lt Francis Dawson-Paul, Lt James J. Finnegan, Luftwaffe, Margate, Martlesham Heath, ME-262, München, New Zealand, Oberst Werner Mölders, Oberstleutnant, Operation Donnerkeil, P-47, P/O “Johnny” Allen, Prinz Eugen, RAF Hurricanes, Reichsmarschal Herman Göring, Reim, Ritter Kreuz, Royal Air Force, Royal Navy, Scharnhorst, Schleissheim, Schwerten, Spain, Spitfires, Staffelkapitän, Stuka, Tegernsee, Teruel, Thames Estuary, Werner Mölders, Westerholt
Adolf Galland was born on Mar 19 1912 in Westerholt, Germany. At the age of 17 he started flying gliders then began flying for the Lufthansa after graduating from the Commercial Air Transport School at Brunswick. This was at a time when the German Air Arm was created, following Hitler’s rise to power, and students were sent clandestinely to the Soviet Union and Italy. In Feb 1934, he joined the Luftwaffe, an accomplished both, pilot and instructor, at the Fighter Pilot School München – Schleissheim. By Apr 1935 he was a fighter pilot with Jagdgeschwader 2 ‘Richtofen’.
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