Some of these guys are pretty talented writers, hey Geoff? I've read little bits of Patrick Gibbs' books and been most impressed and even quite...
http://www.amazon.com/Mosquito-Victory-Bomber-Crews-Currie/dp/0907579337
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mosquito-Thunder-No-105-Squadron-1942-45/dp/0750918004
Just picked this up nice and cheap on Ebay. Have got Battle-Axe Blenheims which covers Hughie Edwards' time with 105 but hadn't realised the same...
A few other WWII related stories covered by Foreign Correspondent: http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/content/2006/s1604506.htm...
Interestingly, the mention of the wife who committed suicide several days after her husband was hanged does not say how she died. She hung herself...
Okay, this has me caught up with the ones I've found recently...good way to get post count up! :becky: The 22 Squadron Lament From Kamchatka...
A Front by Randall Jarrell Fog over the base: the beams ranging From the five towers pull home from the night The crews cold in fur, the bombers...
An Irish Airman Foresees his Death I know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere among the clouds above; Those that I fight I do not hate, Those...
The Cat Boats are Flying Tonight This is the poem I always try to remember and what started my interest in this type of poetry. Again Lake Boga at...
From page 211 of Bret Freeman's excellent Lake Boga at War (which Spidge posted about in the aviation museums' thread), which details the "secret"...
From page 163 of Spitfires, Thunderbolts and Warm Beer by Philip D. Caine. Poem is written by an early 1943 4th FG pilot and transcribed into a...
Phaphamau Saga - along the lines of the Airfield poem From Appendix 7B in Silently into the Midst of Things by Atholl Sutherland-Brown: There's a...
From acknowledgments of They Gave Me a Seafire by Cdr R. "Mike" Crosley, DSC, RN (arrived today and I'm judging it by its cover...stunning!): They...
From the acknowledgements of Pursuit Through Darkened Skies by Michael Allen is this snippet: ...of flak, intruders, beams, Of dummy runs and how...
Spidge posted this over on the dark side which was the first time I had ever seen it. I think I like it better than High Flight. Per Ardua by...
It is quite moving, isn't it? Thanks for your postings as well, Kitty. Good way to start the day. On weald of Kent I watched once more Again I...
Where's my white cat? I need to stroke it maniacally...
http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/content/2007/s2038364.htm Will keep an eye out for the transcript. Night all.
That's exactly what Mark Lax said to me last night! He said the Australian War Memorial tries it on from time to time until he reminds them!
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