By Donald Feesey

On the age of eighteen Don Feesey volunteered for pilot education with the RAF. Having nearly accomplished his path to turn into a fighter pilot, an eye fixed challenge used to be detected and he used to be switched to navigational education. He accomplished a journey of thirty-four winning operations, the bulk at evening in the course of 1944 and 1945 – on the peak of the bomber offensive. On one notable sortie his Lancaster misplaced all energy and the order to bale out used to be given. because the airplane progressively misplaced altitude, creating a secure parachute descent extra very unlikely through the second one, Don used to be approximately to leap while the pilot, nonetheless on the controls, attracted his cognizance. It used to be a lifestyles or demise scenario. should still he bounce or visit the help of his pilot, resulting in a virtually definite demise? He elected to visit assistance from what he notion was once his trapped pilot – yet to his astonishment he came across that the skipper had nursed one engine again into existence, so the single closing team controlled to fight again around the Channel, purely to discover that at 700feet they can now not climb over the customarily welcome white cliffs of Dover. They became for Manston, the closest airfield and flew alongside the beach to make an eventual secure touchdown.

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Turkish-Islamic naval raiding increased in the 14th century. Several Crusader expeditions were launched in response, but had only a short-lived impact with the beyliks of Karasi, Saruhan, Mentese, and above all Aydin soon reviving to dominate much of the Aegean. Most Turkish fleets consisted of large numbers of small ships rather than the great war-galleys preferred by Christian naval powers. Turkish naval tactics also focussed on transporting men and horses as raiding parties – sometimes even carrying siege machines to attack coastal fortifications.

It is interesting to note that amongst the troops the Angevin ruler sent to his garrisons in Albania in the 1270s were hundreds of Muslim ‘Saracens from Lucera’, mostly archers and crossbowmen. But as a shortage of troops became more serious, the Angevins increasingly recruited Greeks and Albanians – a pool of manpower that was also vital to the Byzantine rulers of this region. Little is known about the arsenals that clearly existed in several fortresses. Archaeologists uncovered a large store of crossbow boltheads in the castle at Paphos, along with about 1,500 stone mangonel balls, seemingly stored on a terrace that collapsed during the earthquake.

After the Angevin rulers of southern Italy took over Achaea in 1278, the area was governed by officials, who were in charge of the main castles and garrisons. Once the Crusader aristocracy started paying the adoha tax rather than offering personal military service, castle garrisons increasingly consisted of mercenaries. Their pay varied according to circumstances, but an ordnance of Nicolas de Joinville (1323–25) was seemingly intended to fix the pay for men-at-arms at 800 hyperperes per year if the soldier came from overseas, and 600 if he was local.

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