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A Little Piece of WW2 History

Last post by Ex-Ascot « Tue Dec 03, 2024 3:29 pm
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by FD2 » Fri Jan 05, 2024 9:14 pm

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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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Again sitting next to a facinating old boy. Eavesdropping loads of great stories including some dirty ditties. Must be almost 100. Said he was...

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Last post by Ex-Ascot
Tue Dec 03, 2024 3:29 pm
TSR2 first flight

Last post by Ex-Ascot « Sun Sep 29, 2024 11:52 am
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by ricardian » Fri Sep 27, 2024 7:33 pm

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First flight of TSR2, 27 Sep 1964
Documentary record of the maiden flight of the first prototype of the BAC TSR2 (XR219) from the Aeroplane and...

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A good write up :

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Last post by Ex-Ascot
Sun Sep 29, 2024 11:52 am
Final sortie!

Last post by Karearea « Mon Sep 23, 2024 6:23 pm
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by ricardian » Mon Sep 23, 2024 10:12 am

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Terminally ill grandad enjoys dream Spitfire flight
An 88-year-old grandad who has been given less than a year to live has fulfilled his childhood...

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Terminally ill grandad enjoys dream Spitfire flight
An 88-year-old grandad who has been given less than a year to live has fulfilled his childhood...

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Last post by Karearea
Mon Sep 23, 2024 6:23 pm
A look inside the Valiant

Last post by Archer « Thu Sep 19, 2024 11:15 am
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by ricardian » Tue Sep 10, 2024 7:46 pm

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A look inside the Vickers Valient

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Nice video!

If you go and visit Morayvia, you can have a look inside their Valiant B1 XD875 cockpit section:

DSC_8840_resize by Jelle Hieminga, on...

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Last post by Archer
Thu Sep 19, 2024 11:15 am
Hazardous ops

Last post by Boac « Sat Aug 31, 2024 9:45 am
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by ricardian » Sat Aug 31, 2024 8:46 am

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Windsor Davies in a 1989 RAF instructional film

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Excellent.

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Last post by Boac
Sat Aug 31, 2024 9:45 am
RAF Boy Entrant training 1960

Last post by Ex-Ascot « Fri Aug 09, 2024 5:55 pm
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by ricardian » Mon Aug 05, 2024 9:17 pm

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Mostly of RAF Cosford (2 S of TT) with bits from RAF Hereford & RAF St Athan
I joined the 38th entry as a u/t Telegraphist II in Oct 1959, demobbed...

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My dear chaps. I AM a pensioner. Just younger! With an even younger wife!

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Last post by Ex-Ascot
Fri Aug 09, 2024 5:55 pm
VC-10 in RAF colours

Last post by Archer « Thu Jul 25, 2024 8:40 am
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by ricardian » Thu Oct 14, 2021 7:13 pm
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Ex-Ascot may find this to be of interest:
Special RAF tasks and equipment - from the VC10 website
During its 47 year career with the RAF, the VC10...

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I won't risk it then, thanks!
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Last post by Archer
Thu Jul 25, 2024 8:40 am
Coronation review 1953

Last post by ricardian « Wed Jul 17, 2024 8:29 am
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by ricardian » Tue Jul 16, 2024 5:43 pm

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Seen on Facebook:
Coronation Review of the Royal Air Force by HM Queen Elizabeth II
celebrating her coronation which had taken place at the...

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Seen on Facebook:
Coronation Review of the Royal Air Force by HM Queen Elizabeth II

Celebrating her coronation which had taken place at the...

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Last post by ricardian
Wed Jul 17, 2024 8:29 am
CF-105 Avro Arrow

Last post by PHXPhlyer « Tue Jul 09, 2024 4:31 pm
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by PHXPhlyer » Tue Jul 09, 2024 3:18 am

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Never heard of this aircraft.

How Canada’s dream supersonic bomber became a national nightmare

Link has pics.

It was meant to be one of the...

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TSR2

Yet another A/C that I hadn't heard of.
Thank you Wikipedia. ^:)^

PP

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Last post by PHXPhlyer
Tue Jul 09, 2024 4:31 pm
RNAS Twatt (aka HMS Tern)

Last post by CharlieOneSix « Mon Jul 08, 2024 10:31 pm
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by ricardian » Mon Jul 08, 2024 10:57 am

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Huge RN presence on Orkney in WW2 including seaplanes at RNAS Twatt (HMS Tern) and RNAS Hatston:

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I mentioned in this thread that I once touched skids at Twatt just to get it in my logbook. My boss in the Electricity Board in the late 60s, Sox...

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Mon Jul 08, 2024 10:31 pm
Pilot Accounted for from WWII (McLauchlen, J.)

Last post by Karearea « Sun Jul 07, 2024 8:51 am

by Karearea » Sun Jul 07, 2024 8:51 am

Join us at the Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery on July 8 at 11 a.m. as we honor the memory and sacrifice of 2nd Lt. John E. McLauchlen Jr. who was...

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Last post by Karearea
Sun Jul 07, 2024 8:51 am
An appropriate Grace....

Last post by PHXPhlyer « Mon Jul 01, 2024 3:22 am
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by 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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Raised in a Baptist household ie. Teetotalers, I asked my mother why Baptists couldn't drink even though Jesus turned water into wine for a wedding...

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Mon Jul 01, 2024 3:22 am
Spitfire replica built in garage

Last post by ricardian « Thu Jun 27, 2024 6:57 pm

by ricardian » Thu Jun 27, 2024 6:57 pm

A man has built a three-quarter scale replica of a Mark V Spitfire using the instructions for an Airfix plane model..
BBC News Devon report
His...

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Last post by ricardian
Thu Jun 27, 2024 6:57 pm
Cyprus 1965

Last post by Karearea « Mon May 20, 2024 3:07 am
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by 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
Navy Wings on BBC2, Tuesday 19 March at 1830

Last post by Boac « Fri Mar 15, 2024 3:33 pm
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by 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
Last Letters from Young Kamikaze Pilots

Last post by 1DC « Tue Feb 20, 2024 12:18 pm
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by 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
Missing airman’s ID tag found in Egyptian desert, 81 years after crash

Last post by OneHungLow « Sun Nov 12, 2023 4:49 pm
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by 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
"Ode to an ERK” by Erik Sykes (1942)

Last post by Fox3WheresMyBanana « Fri Nov 10, 2023 11:41 pm
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by 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
Red Storm Rising

Last post by Fox3WheresMyBanana « Thu Nov 02, 2023 10:38 pm
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by 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
RNZAF Lockheed P-3K2 Orion NZ4203

Last post by OneHungLow « Tue Sep 26, 2023 5:37 am
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by 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
Me262

Last post by Karearea « Wed Sep 20, 2023 8:43 pm
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by 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
Battle of Midway Shipwrecks Documented

Last post by Karearea « Mon Sep 18, 2023 6:29 pm
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by 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
Forgotten Australian in the French Resistance - Bruce Dowding

Last post by Karearea « Sun Sep 17, 2023 7:14 am
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by OneHungLow » Sun Sep 17, 2023 6:36 am

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During my recent sojourn in France I spent a little time investigating the history of the Marquis in the area where I was staying and have continued...

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^ thank you, that was going to be my next question.

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Last post by Karearea
Sun Sep 17, 2023 7:14 am
FltLt AM Laidlay DFC (1927-2016)

Last post by G-CPTN « Sun Aug 27, 2023 1:25 am
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by 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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Last post by G-CPTN
Sun Aug 27, 2023 1:25 am
Operation Percy Pink

Last post by OneHungLow « Fri Aug 18, 2023 4:32 am
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by 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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Fri Aug 18, 2023 4:32 am

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