James Holland
speaker
22,142 appearances
48 recordings
7 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 5d ago
James Holland’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Stan's verdict bloody good show.
From august nineteen forty three, Stan flew as number two to Polish squadron leader Eugenius Horby Horbacki.
Stan flew over sixty operational sorties under his command.
His logbook entry when Horby was posted home.
All very sorry to see him go.
He have done over sixty shows here, due to his personality and fine leading the squadron has improved one hundred percent.
Horby was killed ten months later, leading twelve Mastangs against sixty F W one hundred nineties over France.
He was twenty six.
By nineteen forty four, forty five with six one one squadron.
The entries got shorter as the operations got bigger.
At Arnham, Stan wrote Escort, Dakota's dropping troops and supplies, Arnham.
Rhine crossing, airborne crossing of Rhine.
By nineteen forty five it's four words and move on.
On the sixteenth of april nineteen forty five, he escorted six hundred seven squadrons Lancasters to Sweinamunda.
Flew onto the Russian bomb line east of Berlin, came within sight of Russian aircraft, and came home on a dead engine, gliding into Woodbridge.
After surviving for so long, his luck nearly ran out three weeks from the end.
While all of that was happening, William went back to sea, sat his master's ticket, married my grandmother Renee, and kept going.
Chief officer on the Fort Wellington, trading to North Africa and Argentina, then on to Sandstre, a ship he clearly loved, completing a full circumnavigation via the Suez Canal outward and Cape Horn home, finishing in January 1946.
He left the sea that March and eventually rose to harbour master of multiple ports around the UK.
What I find incredible, looking at both of them, is that neither man talked about any of it.
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