Excellent. Some progress.
Good to hear the pilot was okay and the damage relatively minor. I think the damage will be beyond the prop given the engine was running, albeit...
He must have been a tough man - long-term POW and then working underground.
Classy aeroplane with a lot of history.
What an amazing story - one of the bravest I have read.
Sobering to think that many men lost was the fifth-largest RN loss of the war. Here's details of the book written about Norman Walton, the sole...
Good news. Took long enough.
A brave man and a humble one too. There will be many stories to come out of Afghanistan (there already has been). I don't think we've heard even 1%...
Rightly so too and he didn't stop with the Hurri. The designer of perhaps the most beautiful biplanes (Hart, Nimrod, Fury etc) and almost...
Married for 50 years - wow. A man of history if ever there was one. RIP.
Good to hear about another Marauder crewman - http://ww2chat.com/forums/obituaries/4589-flight-lieutenant-gil-graham-rip.html - particularly one who...
Welcome aboard, Raphael.
Good one, Annie.
From The Gestapo Hunters - 464 Squadron RAAF 1942-45 by Mark Lax and Leon Kane-Maguire: McPhee and Atkins flew Mosquito SB-V on the Amiens raid....
Now there's a phenomenal and very active career. To have survived a tour on Blenheims over Occupied Europe is certainly something but then to follow...
All part of your cunning plan to acquire my books no doubt.
I won't hold my breath then...:becky: :bolt:
Ray Parkin's trilogy, Kyt, is the only naval account of POWs I've got. Actually, that's a lie, I also have Cruel Conflict - the triumph and tragedy...
AR, yes, the engineer would have manned the top turret. Am intrigued by there only being one waist gunner.
What an interesting career and an enduring legacy. I had heard of the mule-carried guns but never read about them in action in Italy. Brave animals...
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