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21. Dez. 2022 · There are now no more living links with the brave men who paved the way for the D-Day landings with the passing of submariner Jim Booth aged 101. In 1944, Jim served with a small, elite unit sent to clear a path for invading forces ahead of amphibious landings.
6. Jan. 2023 · Jim Booth was part of a top-secret team of submariners who slipped into the water off Normandy to scout the area. He died peacefully at the age of 101 at his home in Taunton, Somerset in December.
Jim Booth took part in one of the most secret operations of the Normandy invasion. Under the cover of darkness, a mini-submarine was towed part of the way over to the Normandy coast before...
20. Dez. 2022 · A World War Two veteran who helped guide troops onto the beach during the D-Day landings has died at the age of 101. Jim Booth was part of a top-secret team of submariners who slipped into the...
21. Dez. 2022 · In 1944, Jim Booth was part of an elite unit which was tasked in clearing a path for the landing forces to the beaches in one of the most important operations in military history. As a member of the COPP – Combined Operations Pilotage Parties – he spent 48 hours in a midget submarine off the Normandy shoreline, making sure the ...
29. Jan. 2023 · Lieutenant Jim Booth, who has died aged 101, was believed to be the last surviving member of the Combined Operations Pilotage Parties, a secret navy formed in the war to reconnoitre enemy...
Jim Booth (7 February 1945 – 4 January 1994) was a New Zealand film producer and actor, known for producing early films from Peter Jackson, including Meet the Feebles (1989) and Braindead (1992). Booth died of cancer on 4 January 1994, at the age of 48.
