Jet bombers
Title
Jet bombers
Description
Unveiling of the Valiant fleet at a cost of £6m. Annotated 'Daily Mail March 21 1956'.
Creator
Date
1956-03-21
Temporal Coverage
Language
Format
Two newspaper cuttings
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Contributor
Identifier
SIvesonD19171121v10015
Transcription
[photograph]
[symbol] Security. Corporal Andrew Hamilton with Alsatian dog Dante on security patrol while a Valiant is prepared for service.
[page break]
DAILY MAIL. MARCH 21. 1956.
[missing words]
wouldn’t get out of bed
advanced on him with a challenge for a fight.
THE CORPORAL STILL STUCK TO HIS BED.
The private looking for a fight lifted a bedside locker to throw at him, the sergeant went on.
Another soldier took it away.
The private picked up a bottle and hurled it, the sergeant said. It hit him on the cheek.
[underlined] Went for help [/underlined]
The sergeant retreated through the door to fetch help. A few minutes later he was back with the regimental police.
AND THE CORPORAL STILL STUCK TO HIS BED
The corporal was asked at the court-martial why he did not get up and help the sergeant to quell the noise.
Corporal D. Gollins replied: “On a previous occasion I had to tell these men off . . . [italics] and I was violently tipped out of bed one night [/italics].”
Before the court was Private John Wilson McDonald, 20, of Glasgow.
He was sentenced to 56 days’ detention for throwing a beer bottle at Sgt. Pendred, of the Army Educational Corps. McDonald said he slipped and the bottle flew from his grasp.
“I saw the bottle strike the edge of the door – I had no intention of striking the sergeant.”
In mitigation, it was said that the younger of McDonald’s two children was only ten weeks old, had been born with a growth in its throat which mig[missing letters] eventually choke it.
The day after the dist[missing letters]bance he was due to go [missing word] on compassionate leave [missing word} take the child to [missing word] specialist.
Findings and sente[missing letters] have to be confirmed.
[unrelated article]
[page break]
DAILY MAIL. MARCH 21. 1956.
R.A.F.s £6,000,000 PUNCH
Mightiest plane yet
THE R.A.F. yesterday lifted – just a little – the security curtain over Britain’s giant Valiant jet bomber, the most powerful and costly plane to enter R.A.F. service.
THE COST of the plane is £750,000 EACH, so the eight pictured on the right are worth a total of £6,000,000.
But it was revealed yesterday that ONE Valiant can have a hitting power greater than the WHOLE of Bomber Command during the war.
Officals [sic] at Gaydon, Warwickshire, where crews are being trained to fly Valiants, said yesterday:
“They will be flown by men who are the cream of the Royal Air Force.”
[photograph]
Close-up of Valiant bombers, pictured at Gaydon R.A.F. Station, Warwickshire, yesterday.
[symbol] Security. Corporal Andrew Hamilton with Alsatian dog Dante on security patrol while a Valiant is prepared for service.
[page break]
DAILY MAIL. MARCH 21. 1956.
[missing words]
wouldn’t get out of bed
advanced on him with a challenge for a fight.
THE CORPORAL STILL STUCK TO HIS BED.
The private looking for a fight lifted a bedside locker to throw at him, the sergeant went on.
Another soldier took it away.
The private picked up a bottle and hurled it, the sergeant said. It hit him on the cheek.
[underlined] Went for help [/underlined]
The sergeant retreated through the door to fetch help. A few minutes later he was back with the regimental police.
AND THE CORPORAL STILL STUCK TO HIS BED
The corporal was asked at the court-martial why he did not get up and help the sergeant to quell the noise.
Corporal D. Gollins replied: “On a previous occasion I had to tell these men off . . . [italics] and I was violently tipped out of bed one night [/italics].”
Before the court was Private John Wilson McDonald, 20, of Glasgow.
He was sentenced to 56 days’ detention for throwing a beer bottle at Sgt. Pendred, of the Army Educational Corps. McDonald said he slipped and the bottle flew from his grasp.
“I saw the bottle strike the edge of the door – I had no intention of striking the sergeant.”
In mitigation, it was said that the younger of McDonald’s two children was only ten weeks old, had been born with a growth in its throat which mig[missing letters] eventually choke it.
The day after the dist[missing letters]bance he was due to go [missing word] on compassionate leave [missing word} take the child to [missing word] specialist.
Findings and sente[missing letters] have to be confirmed.
[unrelated article]
[page break]
DAILY MAIL. MARCH 21. 1956.
R.A.F.s £6,000,000 PUNCH
Mightiest plane yet
THE R.A.F. yesterday lifted – just a little – the security curtain over Britain’s giant Valiant jet bomber, the most powerful and costly plane to enter R.A.F. service.
THE COST of the plane is £750,000 EACH, so the eight pictured on the right are worth a total of £6,000,000.
But it was revealed yesterday that ONE Valiant can have a hitting power greater than the WHOLE of Bomber Command during the war.
Officals [sic] at Gaydon, Warwickshire, where crews are being trained to fly Valiants, said yesterday:
“They will be flown by men who are the cream of the Royal Air Force.”
[photograph]
Close-up of Valiant bombers, pictured at Gaydon R.A.F. Station, Warwickshire, yesterday.
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Citation
Daily Mail, “Jet bombers,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed June 17, 2026, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/collections/document/44792.