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  HP Halifax B.111, Cyril Barton (1:72) by Corgi Airplanes: item AA37202
Cyril Joe Barton was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry that can be warded to British and Commonwealth forces.
On March 30, 944, in an attack on Nuremburg, Germany, 70 miles from the target PO BartonÕs Halifax bomber was badly damaged by enemy aircraft.
A misinterpreted signal resulted in three of the crew bailing out, and PO Barton was left with no navigator, air bomber or wireless operator.
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  578 Squadron Royal Air Force
Born 5th June 1921 in Suffolk, Cyril Barton volunteered for aircrew duties and joined the RAFVR on 16th April 1941, qualifying as a Sergeant Pilot 10th November 1942.
Barton was commissioned as a pilot officer three weeks later.
On 27th June 1944, Cyril Barton was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross.
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 Cyril Joe Barton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He was 22 years old, and a Pilot Officer in the 578 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve during the Second World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.
On 30 March 1944 in an attack on Nuremburg, Germany and while 70 miles from the target, Pilot Officer Barton's Halifax bomber was badly damaged by enemy aircraft.
A misinterpreted signal resulted in three of the crew baling out and Pilot Officer Barton was left with no navigator, air bomber or wireless operator.
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 Encyclopedia: Cyril Joe Barton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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 Cyril Joe Barton - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Cyril Joe Barton was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Location of Cyril Barton's Victoria Cross "Royal Air Force Museum"
Cyril Joe Barton, References, External links and British World War II Victoria Cross recipients.
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 Find A Grave - Search Results for "BARTON"
Barton then re-located to Liverpool, but soon returned to Woodbridge to take up a post as clerk in Alexander's Bank.
She was a teacher and a government worker before heading off to minister the wounds of soldiers, often on bloody civil war battlefields. Barton was so close to the front lines at the Battle of Sharpsburg that a bullet passed through her clothes and killed the wounded soldier she was tending.
Barton served as the Mayor of Indianapolis, Indiana, from 1964 to 1968.
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Barton said he may also include a plan for storing radioactive waste at temporary storage sites while Yucca Mountain is being developed and give the Energy Department more access to funds outside the spending constraints of the annual congressional budget.
Joe Barton, R-Texas, intends to revive legislation that would grant the Department of Energy greater access to construction funds for the nuclear waste repository, according to lobbyists who met with him recently.
Barton, the influential chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, told reporters this week he is weighing other initiatives to expedite the stalled program and make changes in the nation's nuclear waste policy.
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 VC Recipients | A - M
On the night of 30th March, 1944, Pilot Officer Barton was captain and pilot of a Halifax aircraft detailed to attack Nuremberg.
Fighters continued to attack the aircraft as it approached the target area and, in the confusion caused by the failure of the communications system at the height of the battle, a signal was misinterpreted and the navigator, air bomber and wireless operator left the aircraft by parachute.
Pilot Officer Barton held to his course and, without navigational aids and in spite of strong head winds, successfully avoided the most dangerous defence areas on his route.
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 Find A Grave Cemetery Records- Cyril Barton
Ninety-six aircraft were lost, and Barton was attacked in the air by a Junkers 88.
Pilot Officer Barton continued with the attack and released the bombs himself, then returned to base, with a damaged propellor and no navigational aids.
Barton was killed, but his three remaining colleagues survived with no serious injuries.
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 The Slow Burning Fuse - Chapter Six
On 6 January 1892 Joe Deakin, an Anarchist living in his native town of Walsall, was arrested in Tottenham Court Road on his way to the Autonomie Club.
Nicoll and Cyril Bell, who had probably aroused Coulon's animosity by taking over his position at Louise Michel's school after Coulon's dismissal, were accused jointly of collecting money to print the Emancipator (which I take to be Most's Revolutionary Warfare) and pocketing the proceeds.
Cyril Bell, who as we said earlier had acted on Coulon's suggestion in this, is accused of being an agent provocateur 'in sending letters to form a secret conspiracy of which he would be No. 1, for the fabrication of explosives (...
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 World War 2 Awards.com - BARTON, Cyril Joe
On 30 March 1944 during an air raid on Nuremburg, Germany, Pilot Officer Barton’s Halifax was badly damaged by anti-aircraft fire.
Pilot Officer Barton’s Victoria Cross is publicly displayed at the Royal Air Force Museum in Hendon, England.
Cyril Joe Barton is Buried at the Bonner Hill Road Cemetery, Kingston-upon-Thames, Great Britain.
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 News - Sunderland Today: News, Sport, Jobs, Property, Cars, Entertainments & More
Cyril Joe Barton, aged 22, was the only Halifax pilot to be posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest military award for gallantry.
Wreaths were laid by his navigator, Len Lambert, and, on behalf of Barton's sisters, by Alan Mitcheson, who as a schoolboy watched the aircraft circle and then crash, and who for years campaigned for a memorial to the pilot.
Barton's last mission was an extraordinary feat of skill and courage.
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 Corgi Die-cast Airplanes and Military Aircraft - Page 10
The minesweeper variant used a large electrical loop to detonate magnetic mines.
Cyril Joe Barton was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
On March 30, 1944, in an attack on Nuremberg, Germany, 70 miles from the target PO Barton's Halifax bomber was badly damaged by enemy aircraft.
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 MBR: Children's Bookwatch, April 2005
Jill Barton's zany and comical story, It's Quacking Time!, tells of a young duck who sees his mother lay an egg and discovers the magic of egg origins.
Cyril isn't like other monkeys at the zoo; he is a mandrill with unique facial coloring and markings.
Yet when winter comes and the animals are moved indoors, the monkeys quickly realize that Cyril's colors are a vibrant reminder of the outside world, and learn to appreciate his differences.
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 Handley Page Halifax B Mk III of 578 Sqn flown by C Barton Victoria Cross   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Cyril (better known as 'Cy' or 'Joe') Barton met his end in this aircraft after crashing near Ryhope Colliery, south of Sunderland, after returning from a raid on Nuremberg.
Attacked by a Ju 88 and an Me 410, the aircraft was badly damaged, and the bomb-aimer, navigator and wireless operator bailed out but Barton struggled back to save the remaining members of his crew, who survived the crash.
Nose-art had been designed for Barton's aircraft, but at the time of the crash had been applied only in chalk, as shown.
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LUCERO -- Joe Lucero died Tuesday, October 26, 2004 in Albuquerque at the age of 82.
She was predeceased by her parents, James Foster Scott and Fannie MacMillan Scott; her sister, Ruth Scott Barton; her brother, Robert Scott; and her husband, Joseph E. Roehl.
Cyril & Methodius Church, Hartford CT., he was a gold star member of the Polish Falcons and a member of the Polish National Alliance.
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 The Baseball Analysts: 2006 WTNY 75: 50-26
Introduction: Daric Barton has yet to play in the Major Leagues, and the Mark Mulder trade is still a success for the A's.
This turned out to be a good decision, as Barton only continued to learn as a hitter, while no longer providing negative value in the field.
Some think his 36 doubles from 2005 are a sign of things to come, that Barton will remain a gap hitter at the pro level.
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 The Baseball Analysts: May 2005 Archives
Barton is not doing much better, just 11 XBH, and a recent hot streak has raised his average to a modest.278.
Their great 2004 seasons will allow both players a bit of room for error this season, but both were expecting to be generating consideration for promotions by now.
Should McLeod be able to continue to stockpile college players early in the draft, and prep slippers late in the draft, the Sox should continue to bolster what was once a weak farm system.
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 Dubina Catholic Cemetery
Cyril and Methodius Catholic Cemetery, Dubina, Texas, copyrighted 1998, with the permission of the author, Norman C. Krischke.
Cyril and Methodius Catholic Cemetery was established 5 August 1866 upon burial of Jan Konvicka, 1813 - 1866, according to tombstone inscriptions and church history.
Cyril and Methodius Cemetery, there was a place one mile south of the church used for the burial of at least seven early settlers.
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 WW2 VC Holders
On the night of 3Oth March, 1944, Pilot Officer Barton was captain and pilot of a Halifax aircraft detailed to attack Nuremberg When some 70 miles short of the target, the aircraft was attacked by a Junkers 88 The first burst of fire from the enemy made the intercommunication system useless.
If he continued his mission, he would be at the mercy of hostile fighters when silhouetted against the fires in the target area and if he survived, he would have to make a 4½ hours journey home on three engines across heavily-defended territory.
Before a suitable landing place could be found, the port engines stopped The aircraft was now too low to be abandoned successfully Pilot Officer Barton therefore ordered the three remaining members of his crew to take up their crash stations.
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 History of U.S. Table Tennis Vol IV   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Both Roberts and former V-P Lillian Guyer (rare for a woman to be on the E.C.) would receive Awards for their long years of service to the Association.
Oklahoma City’s Joe Sokoloff won the “A” Singles, Lancer the “B’s,” Rangel the “C’s,” and Denver’s John Jayner the “D’s.” “A” Doubles winners were Liedtke/Lancer; “B” Doubles winners, Jayner/Cecil Woodworth.
In the Niagara Open, Cleveland’s Joe Bilka won both the B’s and the Senior’s; in the Ontario Open, Mike Behan won both the B’s and C’s.
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 Handful Communications   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The three musically inclined children from Belle Delgado's brood of eleven, brothers Bob (bass), Joe (guitars and vocals), and Steve (drums and vocals), have been playing together since the late 1980s.
The brothers' funky, bluesy, from-the-cellblock-to the-mountaintop sound has, over the past three decades, come to be so intimately associated with the steamy southern city that they have become its de facto ambassadors.
How the Nevilles (Art, Charles, Aaron, and Cyril) have lasted over the years when so many other dynamic musical alchemies have withered is unclear.
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 AIRMEN OF THE RAF
Pressing on to his target, Flight Lieutenant Reid released his bombs, then set course for home and in spite of growing weakness from loss of blood, managed to land his crippled aircraft safely.
Action On 30 March 1944 in an attack on Nuremburg, Germany and while 70 miles from the target, Pilot Officer Barton's Halifax bomber was badly damaged by enemy aircraft.
On the return journey, as he crossed the English coast, the fuel ran short and with only one engine working he crashed trying to avoid the houses of a village, and was killed.
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 t r u t h o u t - Doctors Objecting to Planned Cut in Medicare Fees
The American Medical Association expressed "strong objections" to the program, saying that many of the 36 measures were invalid or inappropriate for doctors' offices.
Dr. Cyril M. Hetsko, a trustee of the association, said paying doctors for their performance might be a desirable goal.
But the chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Representative Joe L. Barton, Republican of Texas, said he wanted a permanent, systematic change, not another short-term fix.
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