James Holland
speaker
22,142 appearances
48 recordings
7 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 4d ago
James Holland’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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At Bougi, a city in northern Algeria, the fox-loaded cased petrol that had already been transferred once from a bigger ship, degraded, leaking, soaking the hold with one hundred octane fumes.
William noticed a ventilation fan arcing in the DMS accommodation and mentioned it.
Nothing was done.
Towards the evening there was a crunch and the petrol went up.
It went up aft first.
Blew up the DMS gunner's legs.
He ran through his burning cabin, face on fire, reached the gangway and found the radio operator hanging upside down from the ladder frozen with terror, coattails brushing the key refusing to let go.
I ran over, and immediately I stood on his hands.
He let go, of course.
Having let go he just flopped on the key, picked himself up and went.
Everyone survived.
The fuel intended for Stan Squadron burned in the harbour.
Stands log books.
Got more remarkable the further you go through them.
He flew the Sicily invasion on the ninth of july nineteen forty three.
Invasion took off in darkness so as to be over Acid Beach at dawn.
and logged what is probably the best friendly fire entry I've come across.
A flight lieutenant in his squadron got shot through the glycol radiator by an American P fifty one whose pilot mistook the Spitfires for ME one hundred nines.
The American then got hit by Italian flak.
The same Walrus rescue aircraft picked both of them up under intense fire from Italian shore batteries.
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