The wood carvings are very well done. Number 3 is especially haunting; I'm not quite sure why. I went to the memorial service at my local memorial...
I hadn't noticed that! Classic example of the mind disregarding the eye and registering what it expects to see.
Thanks for your quote Spidge; this is a fine and inspirational piece of writing. Unfortunately thats the way the tides work in the English...
I mentioned Flt Sgt RH Middleton RAAF in the thread on Newton VC, but he certainly deserves a thread of his own. His feat is one of the most moving...
It does look an interesting book and I may well read it some day. I am prepared to believe his sentiments are genuine but I hope he puts his...
Presumably one or other account of his death is wrong: is it definite that he survived the ditching and was captured and executed? If so, was he...
Hi Kyt & Andy I was gob-smacked to see that there is after all a Battle in the RAF Museum! I hadn't been there since I was a boy, but then I went...
Kyt Thanks for these replies - I will reply properly tomorrow; my Broadband link has been off-line since about 9 pm until just now; this often...
Is it really 15000 lb?
Thanks, Kiran, for this. Several interesting points for discussion: 1] To what extent was the Battle's losses the fault of the aircraft, rather...
Nevertheless, during the Battle of Britain, the RAF lost 902 aircraft and the Luftwaffe 1598. Which is less than than a one to two kill ratio, but...
My main concern would be to be distinctive from the "old site", which is grey/green, and our (pre-halloween) colours were too similar. A bit of red...
A slightly better picture than the one on the link, of the Sound mirror at Kilnsea in Yorkshire, dating from 1917. They had some degree of...
So not much has changed then .. substitute "Japan" for Iraq or Iran and then see how it sounds....
As to mistakes - any of those mentioned could be true, but what I definitely did wrong was to interchange the inboard and outboard cannon. In...
With a just a bit of help from me, this is my 8-year olds work. Well, quite a lot of help from me actually. But she did show an interest. I didn't...
:lol::lol: :lever: Perhaps we should have a sub-forum for "conspiracy theories and nutters" I only got as far as the first four pages of the...
Kitty Obviously what you say here makes perfect sense, but I was pointing out the tensions between what we believe should happen and the...
So the USAAF and Boeing were well involved with the getting the B17 operational with the RAF, even before America entered the war. And its...
Kitty As to your friend: you say: "needs the help of her helper" to get onto the bed, so presumably she has a regular helper. Is this helper...
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