James Holland
speaker
22,555 appearances
49 recordings
7 series
first heard May 2025
last heard yesterday
James Holland’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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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.
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.
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