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Vice-Admiral Sir Roy William "Gus" Halliday KBE, DSC (27 June 1923 – 23 November 2007) was a British naval pilot who saw service in the Second World War, in the British Pacific Fleet and subsequently became Director-General Intelligence in Britain's Defence Intelligence Staff between 1981 and 1984. ==War service== Halliday studied at William Ellis School and University College School before volunteering in 1939 for the Royal Navy. While he awaited his call-up papers, he worked as a trawler deck-hand on ''Breadwinner'', out of Lowestoft. Initially entering service in 1941 as a naval rating at HMS ''Royal Arthur'' at Skegness, he was offered a commission as an officer in the RNVR and training as a naval airman. His air training took place in the United States (still formally neutral at that time) at the naval air station at Grosse Ile, near Detroit and at Pensacola, Florida. After qualifying, he was posted to a squadron of Grumman Avengers, aboard the escort carrier in the Gulf of Mexico. After three months period on anti-submarine patrols in the north Atlantic, Halliday was posted to a shore station, RNAS Hatston in Orkney, guarding against sorties by German warships. In late 1943, Halliday's squadron was embarked on ; they sailed for the Far East, arriving at Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in January 1944.〔 There were air raids on Japanese installations and in support of 14th Army operations. Halliday had transferred to by the time of the ''Meridian'' air raids by the British Pacific Fleet on oil refineries near Palembang on 24 January.〔 Halliday's aircraft was shot up during the raid and he was obliged to "ditch" his burning aircraft in the sea; he was rescued by HMS ''Whelp''. ''Whelp's'' first lieutenant, Prince Philip of Greece, lent Halliday a spare uniform and subsequently accompanied him on a "run ashore" in Fremantle.〔 Halliday was back on ''Victorious'' in time to take part in the raids on the airfields on the Sakishima Islands in March to May 1945,〔 for his efforts, he was awarded a DSC in addition to the Mention in Dispatches earned during Operation ''Meridian''.〔 After the Japanese surrender, he learned that his cabin-mate, Ken Burrenston, who had been shot down over Palembang, had been beheaded by the Japanese at Changi, two days after the Japanese surrender.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Roy Halliday」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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