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    Avatars & Signatures

    Old RAF Germany badge, but as on other related forums its likely to change monthly. Sigs are usually you tube links to military things that are...
    Post by: urqh, May 24, 2009 in forum: Barracks
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    Hi from BEFfan

    Oh, no one could possibly forget Petain savior of Verdun...First Gamelin, who gave up on day one, it was all too much...Weygand to follow, and as the...
    Post by: urqh, May 14, 2009 in forum: Introductions
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    BoB won only with US fuel?

    Well, why spoil the habits of a lifetime...I remember well having tea break in education hanger in RAF Cosford in 1980, and looking at all the...
    Post by: urqh, May 13, 2009 in forum: World War 2
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    BoB won only with US fuel?

    I hear say they even won the Falklands. Well their fuel supply at Ascenskon. God bless em, is there any conflict where we dont owe a debt of...
    Post by: urqh, May 13, 2009 in forum: World War 2
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    BoB won only with US fuel?

    Well its an advance on last years model. whereby the Royal Navy actually won it.
    Post by: urqh, May 13, 2009 in forum: World War 2
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    Hi from BEFfan

    I've been thinking about this overnight Annie, as you do...Hey I have another life, its just hard to pin down sometimes... I don't do what if's,...
    Post by: urqh, May 12, 2009 in forum: Introductions
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    Hi from BEFfan

    Interesting Annie, a summary that many would agree with. However there are included in there some oft repeated fallacies on numbers...The numbers...
    Post by: urqh, May 11, 2009 in forum: Introductions
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    Hi from BEFfan

    Ok in my own personal view, and book recommendations should be a personal view, apart from those already mentioned in this thread.: Walter Lords...
    Post by: urqh, May 11, 2009 in forum: Introductions
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    Gurkhas win right to settle in UK

    Its a rather discerning and unexpected pleasure to open your mail box and see an email with the sender as Joanna Lumley....Sign the petition, or...
    Post by: urqh, May 10, 2009 in forum: World War 2
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    Hi from BEFfan

    Well a strenghened bookcase at any rate...I'll put up the ones I think worth reading...On a purely personal basis of course.. There are many though...
    Post by: urqh, May 10, 2009 in forum: Introductions
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    Hi from BEFfan

    HyperWar: The War in France and Flanders, 1939-1940 (UK Military Series) Best to include a link though....sorry..
    Post by: urqh, May 10, 2009 in forum: Introductions
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    Hi from BEFfan

    I'm the last one to recommend any books on Dunkirk and the BEF BEFfan, I have so many one of my favourites being Mr.Lords book. I also have one that...
    Post by: urqh, May 10, 2009 in forum: Introductions
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    Hi from BEFfan

    Amen to that...my view in a nutshell.
    Post by: urqh, May 10, 2009 in forum: Introductions
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    The Blitz - Myth/Reality

    I agree with Ron also, I have enough ingrained stories from my mum on her experiences of the Livepool Blitz to bare that out. The pic of me, my...
    Post by: urqh, May 10, 2009 in forum: World War 2
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    Hi from BEFfan

    The Pioneers have a checquered history in BEF days. Some as you say were the epitomy of the soldier, be he the oft badly worded in my view, useless...
    Post by: urqh, May 10, 2009 in forum: Introductions