Near Tillburg, Netherlands, scottish infantrymen of the 8th Royal Scots, 15th Infantry Div, pause to regroup after coming under heavy fire from german forces. Oct 1944.
Aug 1943: Pvt. Stanley Davis of the 5th Seaforth Highlanders rides a captured german pack mule with a swastika emblem branded on the animal’s neck during the allied invasion of Sicily.
Flight Sgt. Morris Rose (born in Glasgow on 1923) points out the essential characteristics of the V-1 flying bomb to other Tempest pilots at Newchurch, 23 June 1944. Rose downed his first V1 on June 16 1944 and had destroyed a total of 11 by the end of July. He flew Hurricanes, Typhoons and Tempests. On 1945 was a POW for only three months, and after his release he was posted to India, where he served until he was demobilised. Morris Rose died on 2002.
"The Tempest was one of the most powerful high performance fighters to see operational service in World War Two and extended the boundaries of piston-engine powered flight. Built on lessons learned earlier in the conflict it was designed to be a fast, maneuverable, heavily armed, high altitude interceptor."