A Ww2 Vet Of Distinguished Service Passed On This January. His D Hollo Back Solar Daytime Operate Was Incredible, He Started With Riding Closed To The Minefields Together With Battlefront On This James 122Cc Lightweight, Together With In Addition To Then He Was Flying A Lightweight Scouting Plane Directing Tank Together With Post Firing Coordinates
After excelling at schoolhouse inwards both sports also his studies, he went on to read constabulary at Glasgow University also graduated amongst a marker inwards Scottish Law also forensics medicine inwards 1939.
After joining the Territorial Army inwards 1938, Lt Col Neilson went on to deed i of the offset Air Observation Post volunteers, whose projection it was to accompany Spitfires also other armed forces aircraft on air-to-air missions also ticker from the air for potential targets on the ground.
Lt Col Neilson played a vital utilization inwards the D-Day landings inwards 1944. He was i of the offset to construct it on the beaches also was tasked amongst finding a suitable area for aircraft to land.
On the evening of D-Day, regular regular army bird airplane pilot Ian Neilson, was sent on a lonely mission on a James motorbike. First though, he had to wade ashore from the landing transportation (LST) also uncovering it, from whatever of iii possible sites inwards aerial recon photos, inwards a waterproofed vehicle.
He had to ride across the battlefront also to a greater extent than or less minefields inwards lodge to uncovering a site from which he could feed target corrections dorsum to naval gunners — inwards the hope of stopping the Germans from bringing upwards reinforcements fast enough to counter the invasion.
Indeed, his pocket-sized projection force, which had arms also explosives, also as aircraft spare parts also fuel on board the tank carrier, had to accept away obstacles from the landing site inwards i lawsuit it was identified.
The offset two examined were covered amongst crashed gliders, parachutes also dead animals. Neilson made his alternative of site for the AOP at midday
The chosen i turned out to suffer iii fields of a farm at the settlement of Plumetot, hence covered amongst obstacles such as anti-landing poles erected past times the Germans also wire fences, a concrete H2O tank also electricity pylons.
He rode dorsum to collect his working political political party of v men also another officer, also the waterproofed truck, full of demolitions. The landing populace was laid upward after they blew upwards fences, electricity pylons also a concrete H2O trough. The squadron’s offset v Auster IV aircraft arrived the side past times side twenty-four hours from the base of operations of operations inwards England to render additional dorsum upwards to troops on the ground.
He flew inwards an Auster IV plane, which was a high-winged monoplane unarmed low-cal aircraft which was used for observation runs to report also guide the Allied forces most where to assault also where to avoid. Flying without parachutes to cutting dorsum weight.
Directing give the axe downward meant “climbing like mad” to observe a exceptional shell’s flight from between 500 also 1,000ft. “The fine fine art was to learn the aircraft pointing inwards the right management when the vanquish came inwards to land,” Neilson recalled. “I industrial plant life myself oftentimes observing through the roof.” To the gunners’ “ready”, he would utilisation radio to give the lodge to fire.
The biggest shells, from 15in naval guns, were each several feet long also weighed as much as a modern Smart machine — near a ton. There was a run a risk of existence hit; once, a smaller vanquish passed shut under Neilson’s left wing.
So effective was that shooting, from 15 inwards naval guns, 5.5in also 4.5 inwards medium guns, also 25-pounder champaign guns, that High German linguistic communication infantry also Panzer reinforcements were crucially delayed – but none of it could conduct been done without Neilson’s bravery also resourcefulness inwards the invasion’s offset hours, which won him, as an regular regular army aircraft pilot, the Distinguished Flying Cross.
He continued to fly, 55 sorties inwards June also July inwards these planes also xxx shoots, right upwards until the terminate of the D-Day landings. Something he said was the best feeling ever. Small note, he discovered that ship's give the axe downward was to a greater extent than accurate due to the method of using make headings to at 1 time give the axe downward than tank's firing coordinate method of grid type coordinates.
The twenty-four hours after VE day, he got married to a infirmary worker, he was the CO of a War Crime’s Investigation Unit inwards Federal Republic of Germany inwards 1945/46 investigated nation of state of war crimes at Sachsenhausen concentration armed forces campsite due north of Berlin, also he formed also commanded No 666 Scottish Sqn, Royal Auxiliary Air Force, 1948-1953.
Lt Col Neilson, was a actually busy human beingness also joined many societies relating to the armed forces, the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, the Boys Brigade, the Royal Yachting Association also much more. Whilst inwards Marlborough, he edited the periodical Tower also Town, wrote two books, an autobiography also another most his 4th dimension at the Air Observation Post, Air OP — Action Remembered
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80017422 for an audio oral history
http://www.gazetteandherald.co.uk/obituaries/15070931.Lt_Col_Ian_Godfrey_Neilson/
http://www.gazetteandherald.co.uk/news/towns/marlboroughheadlines/13424547.Marlborough_war_hero_receives_France_s_highest_military_honour_at_his_bedside_in_Swindon_hospital/
http://www.marlboroughnewsonline.co.uk/news/all-the-news/3093-i-wasn-t-frightened-i-was-excited-by-it-all-reveals-marlborough-s-d-day-veteran-colonel-ian-nielson
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/register/lieutenant-colonel-ian-neilson-9cx2sjqzh
http://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/obituary-ian-neilson-dfc-legion-d-honneur-1-4361180
http://www.theglasgowacademy.org.uk/not_the_editor/plugins/kceditor/upload/files/userfiles/All_Files/FPs/Etcetera_Archive/Etcetera_Magazine_26.pdf
https://oldthumpers.wordpress.com/2010/12/18/james-ml/
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