LONDON NAVIGATOR WINS FOR WORK WITH AIRBORNE SQUADRONS. - Picture (issued 1945) shows - FLIGHT LIEUTENANT PHILIP GARRITY, of 41 Cheylesmore House, Ebury Bridge Road, London, has been awarded the he is one of the most experienced navigators of the Royal air Force airborne squadrons. The citation declares "He has always carried out his work with great skill and determination, setting a high standard of which his squadron is justly proud". Flight Lieutenant Garrity is navigation leader of his squadron and has been engaged in airborne operations almost since their inception. He
LONDON NAVIGATOR WINS FOR WORK WITH AIRBORNE SQUADRONS. - Picture (issued 1945) shows - FLIGHT LIEUTENANT PHILIP GARRITY, of 41 Cheylesmore House, Ebury Bridge Road, London, has been awarded the he is one of the most experienced navigators of the Royal air Force airborne squadrons. The citation declares "He has always carried out his work with great skill and determination, setting a high standard of which his squadron is justly proud". Flight Lieutenant Garrity is navigation leader of his squadron and has been engaged in airborne operations almost since their inception. He was a formation leader with the famed Desert Air Force and took part in the airborne landings in Sicily as navigator of a towing aircraft. He played a prominent part in the D-Day landings in Normandy and the airborne invasion of Holland. He had made more than 80 sorties. Photographic negative , Royal Air Force
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