Kavel 950
950
CHURCHILL -- TYPESCRIPT LETTER by the Honorary Secretary R.H. Allen, on behalf of Mr. Churchill, to Mr. K.A. Roelen in Steenbergen. Dated June 4th 1946. Signed by Allen. On fold. leaf (19x12 cm), fold. & blindstamped w. coat of arms of "House of Commons" in upper left corner. In or. envelope.
A letter of thanks, written by Mr. R.H. Allen, the secretary of Churchill and on his behalf, to Mr. K.A. Roelen for his letter and for the photograph of Wing Commander Gibson's grave. Guy Penrose Gibson, (12 Aug. 1918 – 19 Sept. 1944) was a distinguished bomber pilot in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War and the most highly decorated British serviceman at that time. He was the first Commanding Officer of No. 617 Squadron, which he led in the "Dam Busters" raid in 1943, resulting in the destruction of two large dams in the Ruhr area of Germany. After this operation Gibson was appointed Major and received various staff functions. It was Churchill's wish to give Gibson a key role in post-war politics within the Conservative party. The preparations for that new role were in full swing, but Gibson no longer kept the grind of the successive staff functions set to make him survive the war. He managed to arrange it so that he was deployed again with a new plane: the double twin-engine and for his time very advanced Havilland Mosquito fighter-bomber. Gibson was the leader of a squadron of 60 bombers. On September 19, 1944, Gibson's Mosquito was hit by a Lancaster bomber's own fire. He was killed when he crashed near Steenbergen (Noord-Brabant), close to Roelen's house. Roelen is the man who took Gibson's body out of the crashed plane. Gibson is buried in the Catholic cemetery of Steenbergen.€ 100
Terug