二次世界大戰資料庫 (WW2DB)

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ww2dbaseCharles Roderick Carr was born in Feilding, New Zealand in 1891. He served as an airman in the British Royal Navy and British Royal Air Force during WW1. In 1919, he participated in the Russian civil war as a member of the Lithuanian Army, on the side of the anti-Bolshevists. In 1921, he was a part of Ernest Shackleton's final Antarctic expedition. He returned to the RAF in 1922. In 1927, he and L. E. M. Gillmann attempted to fly non-stop from Britain to India, but they would be forced to ditch near Bandar Abbas, Iran after running out of fuel; this flight gained them a very brief world record for flight distance, but Charles Lindbergh would beat this new record by over 200 kilometers within hours. When the European War of WW2 began in 1939, he was commanding Fleet Air Arm units aboard the carrier HMS Eagle. In 1940, he was made the commanding officer of No. 61 Group. In 1941, he was made commanding officer of No. 4 Group, and he would remain in this role for the majority of the war. Near the end of the war, he was made the Deputy Chief of Staff for Air at the Supreme Headquarters of the Allied Expeditionary Force, assisting in the planning of air operations in northwestern Europe. In 1946, he briefly served as Air Officer Commanding of the Royal Indian Air Force. He retired from service in 1947 and served some years in civil aviation. Carr passed away in Bampton, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom in 1971.

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