Spitsbergen 1942

Aerial Reconnaissance of Spitsbergen / Svalbard shot in June 1942 from a Catalina flying boat, including a machine gun attack on a German Ju88 (recent footage of the wreckage can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUDpK8_86JA )

Footage also of the Catalina crew, including Flight Lieutenant Dennis Edward "Tim" Healy, DSO, Norwegian Cross, smoking a cigarette with SOE operative Sir Alexander Glen DSC, CBE, KBE at Sullom Voe Shetland. Further details can be found in the book "Arctic Airmen" by Ernest Schofield and Roy Conyers Nesbit available at Amazon.

Film taken by Pilot Officer Ronald Martin.

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Travel & Events

Tags:

• Spitsbergen
• Svalbard
• World War 2
• Catalina
• Arctic
• SOE
• Arctic Ocean
• Sir Alexander Glen
• Ernest Schofield
• 210 Squadron
• Coastal Command
• Tim Healy
• Dennis Edward Healy
• Ju88
• Sandy Glen
• Sullom Voe
• Arctic Airmen
• Roy Conyers Nesbit
• Ronald Martin

[MyBrinca]

Hi, my name is Howard Martin. I am the son of Ronald Martin, the co pilot of the Catalina P for Peter, who took the film you posted on you tube.Can you tell me what your connection is with anyone in the film.The first frame, by the way, is Sir Alexander Glen and not Tim Healy.

[Healz0]

Thanks for contacting me. I'm Tim Healy's Grandson. I believe we were in contact with one another ten years ago, unless you have a brother of course. Excuse the confusion, I didn't realise I'd suggested Sandy Glenn was Tim! I could have made it clearer, you're right!

[MyBrinca]

@MyBrinca Unbeknown to me, my brother Ken must have been in touch with you. He died four years ago,leaving me with a lot of unanswered questions about my father´s wartime possessions, some of which I know went to the squadron museum in Oban, Scotland. It is called the war and peace museum. I now live in Portugal, and I will give you my E mail address if you would like keep in touch directly, to swap information about these brave men,whose secret operations were not known to many . Howard