Andy Johnson

Andy Johnson

Andy Johnson. Andy served in the RAF from 1981 as a fighter controller, spending ten years serving in air defence radar stations.  In 1992, he moved to RAF Waddington and spent the next seventeen years flying on the AWACS as crewmember and mission crew commander.  During his flying service, Andy flew extensively in air operations over Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq, and worked with the armed forces of many nations, particularly the USA, Australia and India.  He has an insider's view of the air environment and the application of air power on the battlefield.  Andy has a lifetime interest in military aviation and the campaigns of the British and Commonwealth Armies, particularly in the Second World War, has visited battlefields in Sicily, Italy, Normandy and Northwest Europe and has led Staff Rides and battlefield tours looking at the Battle of Britain and visiting the Western Front and Normandy.  As a complete contrast, Andy travelled to India on numerous occasions and developed an interest in the Honourable East India Company and its campaigns, particularly the Indian Mutiny of 1857-59.  During independent travels, he explored sites at Delhi, Lucknow, Kanpur, Gwalior, Jhansi and other locations, many well off the beaten track. He retired from the RAF in 2009 to pursue a second career in battlefield guiding and military and aviation research.  He is a volunteer guide at RAF Waddington Heritage Centre, escorting general interest and ancestral groups, and at RAF Digby Operations Room Museum, where a fighter control background is of particular use.  He also guides a Lincolnshire-based aviation-themed tour and has guided for Remembrance Travel. He joined the Guild of Battlefield Guides in 2008 and gained Badge No 52 in November 2011. Andy can be contacted atandyjohnson26@hotmail.co.uk

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Andy Johnson Movies

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    SAS Operation Bulbasket: Part 2 - Destruction of the French railways

    SAS Operation Bulbasket: Part 2 - Destruction of the French railways

    1 2012 HD

    Continuing the story of 'Operation Bulbasket' the BHTV team follow the development of the attacks on the railways in order to delay the arrival of...

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  • 2013
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    Assault on Normandy: Gold Beach - Battle for the Beaches

    Assault on Normandy: Gold Beach - Battle for the Beaches

    1 2013 HD

    Gold Beach is the story of the highly successful assault by 50th Northumbrian Division and 231 Malta Bde on the central beach of the Allied D day...

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  • 2012
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    Bruneval Raid: Operation Biting

    Bruneval Raid: Operation Biting

    1 2012 HD

    In 1941 Dr RV Jones realised that the Germans had developed their own radar system that would account for increasing RAF bomber casualties. An enemy...

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    Assault on Normandy: Gold Beach - Battle for the Beachhead

    Assault on Normandy: Gold Beach - Battle for the Beachhead

    1 2013 HD

    69 Infantry Brigade had a highly successful landing and now had to fight its way through German defences to its objectives eight miles away. It was...

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  • 1970
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    SAS and the Normandy Campaign: Operation Bulbasket

    SAS and the Normandy Campaign: Operation Bulbasket

    1 1970 HD

    This programme follows the deployment of the main body of the SAS, the Recces on targets, the raids carried out both by the SAS and the bombing...

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  • 2012
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    SAS Operation Bulbasket: Part 1 - Das Reich and Oradour

    SAS Operation Bulbasket: Part 1 - Das Reich and Oradour

    1 2012 HD

    In 1944 prior to D Day the allied planners realised it was vital to isolate the Normandy Battlefield from reinforcements. In particular it was...

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    Operation Market Garden: Arnhem - Battle for the Oosterbeek Perimeter

    Operation Market Garden: Arnhem - Battle for the Oosterbeek Perimeter

    1 2012 HD

    With 2 Para isolated at the Arnhem Bridge and both 1 and 4 Para Brigades thwarted in their attempts to fight their way into Arnhem and falling back,...

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