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CPO Donald Bunce CGM Signed Naval Art
Naval Art  Signatures Surnames A to C  Bunce, Donald |
[UP] - Acuna, Miguel - Adams, Paul - Alsen, Wilhelm - Anson, Sir Edward - Baber, John - Baberg, Kurt - Bailey, Leslie - Baines, Edward - Barker, L P - Bennett, Bill - Bergius, Adam - Bielig, Gerhard - Blyth, Sir Charles - Bode, Thilo - Boutwood, John - Bovey, N H - Brammen, Erich - Brasack, Paul - Briggs, Ted - Bunce, Donald - Burnett, P W - Cameron, John - Cassidi, Desmond - Chaffin, Clair C - Chapman, Paul - Clark, Eric - Clayton, Arthur - Conter, Louis - Cook, Lonnie - Cowley, Alan - Cree, Malcolm - Cremer, Peter - Crosley, Mike - Cunningham, Richard |
CPO Donald Bunce CGM
Joined FAA in January 1940 and trained as a Telegraphist Air Gunner (TAG). Don was drafted to 825 Squadron and then transferred to HMS Victorious at Scapa Flow, joining HMS Hood and HMS Prince of Wales. Torpedo attack on Bismarck same day as HMS Hood was sunk. His Squadron later transferred to HMS Ark Royal for Malta Convoys etc until she was torpedoed and sunk. The Squadron reformed at Lee-on-Solent and sent to Manston, Kent where they prepared for the night attack on Scharnhorst, Gneisehau and Prinz Eugen. This turned into a daylight raid on 12th February 1942 and all the aircraft were shot down, with only five survivors – four officers and CPO Bunce himself. From then on Don transferred to training squadrons. He was demobbed in January 1946. He died on 29th September 2008.
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Operation Cerberus - The Channel Dash by Philip West. The Channel Dash (officially known as Operation Cerberus) was one of three operations during the Second World War for which the Swordfish was to become the most famous. Heavily outgunned in the Straits of Dover on this day in February 1942 by the German warships Scharnhorst, Gneisenau and Prinz Eugen, with their accompanying flotilla of destroyers and motor torpedo boats, and with top cover provided by deadly fighter aircraft of the Luftwaffe, all six Fleet Air Arm Swordfish were shot down. Only five of the eighteen aircrew survived. Here we see the Swordfish flown by Sub. Lt. Kingsmill and Sub. Lt. Samples with PO Bunce in the rear, fighting for their lives with his machine gun. |
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