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An appropriate Grace....
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CharlieOneSix » Mon May 20, 2024 10:52 am
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I was looking for something else on my computer and came across the report I wrote about the reunion weekend on 28 April 2013 that I organised for...
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OC XI was in the habit of randomly calling on any member of the company at Dinner to provide a Grace.
One needed a sensible one and an amusing one...
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Last post by Fox3WheresMyBanana
Mon May 20, 2024 10:42 pm
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Cyprus 1965
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ricardian » Sun May 19, 2024 9:32 pm
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British Pathe - Aphrodite's Island
My best overseas tour 1965-67 at Akrotiri. 4 watches covering 24/7 so no nasty station duties to bother us.
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Most interesting documentary, ricardian - grazie .
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Last post by Karearea
Mon May 20, 2024 3:07 am
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Navy Wings on BBC2, Tuesday 19 March at 1830
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CharlieOneSix » Fri Mar 15, 2024 12:07 pm
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Navy Wings will be featured in a new episode of Michael Portillo’s Great British Railway Journeys on Tuesday 19 March on BBC2 at 18.30. Whilst flying...
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All together now, to the tune of a Sea Shanty
You put your left leg out
You put your left leg in
You put your left leg out
And you shake it all...
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Last post by Boac
Fri Mar 15, 2024 3:33 pm
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Last Letters from Young Kamikaze Pilots
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PHXPhlyer » Mon Jan 15, 2024 4:33 am
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Last letters from young kamikaze pilots provide rare insights into Japan’s feared special attack unit
Kagoshima, Japan
CNN
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Think of a...
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I visited Nagasaki on a cruise ship and took a tour of the city including the bomb area. During the tour the female tour guide said that regardless...
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Last post by 1DC
Tue Feb 20, 2024 12:18 pm
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A Little Piece of WW2 History
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FD2 » Fri Jan 05, 2024 9:14 pm
A Polish friend sent me this and I will use his text without alteration. My friend is not an aviator.
Came across the enclosed exhibit today, in...
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Last post by FD2
Fri Jan 05, 2024 9:14 pm
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Missing airman’s ID tag found in Egyptian desert, 81 years after crash
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Karearea » Sat Nov 11, 2023 9:27 pm
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The identity tag of an Australian airman has been found in an Egyptian desert, more than 80 years after a plane he was on went missing over the...
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What an interesting, if poignant story. I am delighted that his ID tag has been recovered and that he and his crew are remembered, and thus in some...
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Last post by OneHungLow
Sun Nov 12, 2023 4:49 pm
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"Ode to an ERK” by Erik Sykes (1942)
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ricardian » Fri Nov 10, 2023 11:08 pm
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The comedian Eric Sykes was an LAC wireless operator in WW2 and he wrote this in 1942:
Three cheers for the man on the Ground.
Wherever you walk,...
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I was always nice to my Erks.
I did enjoy taking them up in the back seat, which was a gentle way of proving to them that you cannot, in fact, teach...
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Last post by Fox3WheresMyBanana
Fri Nov 10, 2023 11:41 pm
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Red Storm Rising
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Fox3WheresMyBanana » Mon Apr 17, 2023 11:09 pm
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Well, they'll never make a Hollywood movie of it*, but a bunch of computer types are using games graphics and the audiobook to visualise Red Storm...
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Another RSR chapter visualized
ISTR it's the second action for the stealth fighters, after the Chap 17 bit posted earlier, if you want to view them...
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Last post by Fox3WheresMyBanana
Thu Nov 02, 2023 10:38 pm
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RNZAF Lockheed P-3K2 Orion NZ4203
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Karearea » Mon Sep 25, 2023 11:17 pm
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National hero on its way to the Museum:
The Air Force Museum of New Zealand will welcome the latest addition to its collection aircraft in...
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Do you know what aircraft the RNZAF are replacing the Orions with?
Boeing P-8A Poseidon
New Zealand’s Airborne Surveillance and Response Force...
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Last post by OneHungLow
Tue Sep 26, 2023 5:37 am
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Me262
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OneHungLow » Wed Sep 20, 2023 12:10 pm
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I saw my first Me262 at the age of 9 in the Johannesburg War Museum.
Around 1500+ Messerschmitt Me 262s were produced, but only eight aircraft...
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Battle Stations: Messerschmitt 262 - Race for the Jet (War History Documentary)
That documentary was very interesting.
Thank goodness those in...
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Last post by Karearea
Wed Sep 20, 2023 8:43 pm
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Battle of Midway Shipwrecks Documented
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PHXPhlyer » Mon Sep 18, 2023 4:30 pm
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Sea explorers make first detailed search of shipwrecks from Battle of Midway
The site is the final resting place for hundreds of sailors on both...
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A couple of breath-taking photos at that link.
the expedition team conducted ceremonies to honor the site’s history. - I'm glad for that.
Rest in...
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Last post by Karearea
Mon Sep 18, 2023 6:29 pm
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Last post by Karearea
Sun Sep 17, 2023 7:14 am
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FltLt AM Laidlay DFC (1927-2016)
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ricardian » Sat Aug 26, 2023 3:49 pm
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A friend posted this to the Ex-Boy Entrants Facebook page:
My Flight Commander in the 19th Entry at Cosford in 1954 was Flight Lieutenant Andrew...
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A varied choice of aircraft.
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Sun Aug 27, 2023 1:25 am
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Operation Percy Pink
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OneHungLow » Thu Aug 17, 2023 5:49 pm
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The Maquis.JPG
Operation Percy Pink
'Percy Pink' was a US special forces operation to parachute a 13-man Office of Strategic Services group into...
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Heroes all. Thanks for that video.
Glad somebody reads this stuff Karearea.
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Last post by OneHungLow
Fri Aug 18, 2023 4:32 am
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Norman Darbyshire Part 1
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OneHungLow » Tue Aug 15, 2023 5:10 am
‘Written out the history books’: the British spy who planned the Iranian coup Norman Darbyshire had a modest upbringing but had a knack for...
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Last post by OneHungLow
Thu Aug 17, 2023 3:22 pm
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RAF in 1949 - aptitude tests for would-be aircrew
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ricardian » Sun Jul 30, 2023 3:32 pm
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1949 - Aptitude tests for would-be pilots or flight engineers at RAF Hornchurch, London
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In Nav training, 1962, our deputy course commander took one of the lectures. He looked around and then said half of us would be dead before we...
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Wed Aug 02, 2023 12:55 pm
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Shackleton Operations
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om15 » Sun Aug 30, 2020 11:48 am
I didn't know of this event, I remember Buccaneers, Hunters and Sea Vixens sinking the Torrey Canyon, they used rockets, dropped cans of kerosine and...
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Last post by OneHungLow
Tue Jul 25, 2023 8:48 pm
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RAF Coastal Command 1944
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ricardian » Sun Jul 23, 2023 10:40 pm
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instructional film originally classified Confidential
An instructional film that describes the strategic principles and actual practice of Coastal...
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instructional film originally classified Confidential
An instructional film that describes the strategic principles and actual practice of Coastal...
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Last post by OneHungLow
Tue Jul 25, 2023 6:13 pm
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McNamara's folly - deliberate use of low-IQ troops in Vietnam!
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ricardian » Tue Jul 18, 2023 5:51 pm
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McNamara's Folly: The Use of Low-IQ Troops in the Vietnam War
US Defence Secretary Robert McNamara lowered mental standards to induct 354,000 low-IQ...
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From The Militarisation of the San link above - ...a report by the Argus Africa News Service: “Terrorist attacks have brought unexpected benefits for...
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Last post by OneHungLow
Fri Jul 21, 2023 3:44 am
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North Weald Strikemaster...
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OneHungLow » Thu Jul 20, 2023 12:22 pm
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This little aviation blandishment arrived in my in-box today... but I have been aware of the Strikemaster hurtling around here over the last two...
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Double temptation.
NW Strikemaster1.JPG
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Thu Jul 20, 2023 2:07 pm
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RAF Coastal Command 1942
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ricardian » Sat Jul 15, 2023 7:51 pm
Coastal Command (1942) - the movie, remastered
The work of Coastal Command is illustrated by this story (published November 1942) of a single...
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Last post by ricardian
Sat Jul 15, 2023 7:51 pm
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RAF Ibsley - Watch station a potential des res?
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OneHungLow » Sun Jul 09, 2023 6:50 pm
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RAF Ibsley
Its walls are made of crumbling concrete and covered in graffiti, its windows shattered or stolen, and the landscape it was built to...
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Only because I'm curious you understand - is there a substantive difference between a watch tower and a control tower or is it a matter of USAAF...
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Last post by Rossian
Tue Jul 11, 2023 2:33 pm
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RAF Scampton closure
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ricardian » Tue Sep 06, 2022 12:40 pm
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Photograph from the closure parade.
Words fail me
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I agree with this. I just hope that no one defaces the grave stone.
Our currently serving colleagues did just that when they replaced the original...
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Last post by 4mastacker
Sun Jul 09, 2023 6:59 pm
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Westland Whirlwind Fighter
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OneHungLow » Sat Jul 08, 2023 6:08 pm
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Westland Whirlwind Fighter
On 25 June, the latest exhibit for the Kent Battle of Britain Museum arrived at Hawkinge, in the shape of the Whirlwind...
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I dug out my father's Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1942 . Under the Whirlwind entry it says that Westland was formed in 1935 to take over the...
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Last post by CharlieOneSix
Sun Jul 09, 2023 11:47 am
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RAF 1946-80
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ricardian » Sun Jul 02, 2023 4:55 pm
The Royal Air Force: Past and Present (Part Three 1946-1980)
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Last post by ricardian
Sun Jul 02, 2023 4:55 pm
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