Good point, CT. I guess the SOE agent would have known how to contact them.
Ground missiles? Do they mean flak or something a bit different?
Some excellent history there, Annie. Did not know about such an extensive POW camp in South Africa but it makes sense. The prisoners obviously held...
What a novel and brilliant way to honour the crew and what a gallant but sad last flight for these men. The name of the pilot rings a bell with me...
I'm guessing HMS Veteran was a V & W destroyer, Kitty? Ah yes - HMS Veteran She was a successful escort and was sunk the following year while...
Spitfires, Thunderbolts and Warm Beer by Philip D. Caine is a good read of an American, LeRoy Gover (very American name!) who joins the RAF (but not...
I take it by the term "soldiers" that these Indians were fighting with the Japanese or were they a labour force/pows?
A very proud tradition that receives the respect it deserves. Did not know that about your Dad, Kitty. Will PM you.
Would be nice if retrospective pardons could be given to the rest who, I suspect, are no longer with us.
There's something about the cruisers of the RAN. I have never looked into the action in which the Perth was lost in detail but knew it was against...
I've been trying to track down the Australian side of things through Vincent Winter's Noble Six Hundred but trainees' departure dates are all over...
Welcome aboard, rolist. Annie, chicken and dumplings? How fast is the mail in your neck of the woods? :becky:
Very sad, Kitty.
I've seen bits and pieces of it. I think I saw the graduation episode about 18 months ago - everything looked uncomfortable but immaculate.
Thanks mate, I meant to go looking in the obit section but got side-tracked.
It would have been a bloody busy time for 3 and 450 Squadrons. Constant defensive and offensive patrols and regular moving. I really need to read...
A good mate of mine sent me this photo of his Uncle Butch (in fez) in front of his Spit "Thelma" in Syria in 1943. Barry, my mate, said Butch flew a...
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Ah, but of course. Thanks DL.
Kitty taught me everything...
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