A: Both. There were a number of incidents in East Anglia, between Dec 1942 and April 1945, both in level flight and during rather violent aerobatics...
With respect, you have got it the wrong way round; it was essentially a land-based weapon, modified for use on merchant ships. It was introduced in...
Halifax LK899 crashed in the river Deben near Felixstowe Ferry. We found some debris at the site in 1982, including a "Rebecca" aerial which I showed...
This is good stuff. There were incidents involving a Boston and a Beaufighter and trapped/injured crewmen only a couple of miles from me, both in...
This "Reds too Brit for Olympics ceremony" story is duff gen. It was doing the rounds several months ago but was shown to be a non-starter in the...
Interesting - I've never seen statistics relating to the air offensive set down this way before. While I would not wish to argue with the maths...
Yes, excellent aeroplane, but about 60 of them broke up in the air - FACT BC
Spot on. I still receive enquiries about raids and WW 2 aircraft crashes, and the enquirers seem very perplexed and occasionally disgrunted because...
Andy, I'd be very interested to see it, or anything similar. Some of the quite-well known (and used) pictures I have found have a background...
Good answer, Kyt. Most of the London boroughs obviously took a pasting right through the war, beginning with the big raid on the docks on 7 Sept...
The bomb was initially thought to have been of US origin and was reported as such on local TV. When I contacted the Beeb with info from wartime...
There was a direct mention to an aspect of the Geneva Convention I was not aware of on another site with reference to the "repatriation of remains"...
Interesting to read your comments about the Blenheim IF's with underslung gun-packs. I have an account from one Flt Lt R M B Duke-Woolley of 23 Sqn...
Great pictures, some not seen before. A Hell of an achievement, launching B-25s off carriers the way they did. I did stumble accross a site which...
Watch your mouth. The media love to jump on the "rundown NHS" bandwagon at every opportunity. I am not saying there is not a problem, but a lot of...
Not mentioned in a lot of the blurb on the "Cadillac of the skies" was the fact that a number of them fell apart in the air pulling out of dives and...
Like it. In a remarkable contrast to the very eloquent pieces of prose above, I found this little ditty in a book about wartime graphics (drawings),...
During a further trawl of the net for battle-damage pictures, I found a couple of sample pages from a book titled The Spitfire Mk IX in IAF Service...
Thanks to all for the excellent info on this one. I have a trio of slides showing two of the pictures in the original post, in my battle-damage...
Spidge: I think you'll find the picture you used actually shows the WW 1 Cemetery at Ipswich; the main WW 2 military plot for service casualties...
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