01-10-2007, 01:39 PM
|
#2 (permalink)
|
| Super Moderator
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Melbourne Australia
Posts: 3,245
You're Top Poster: #3 | RAAF S for Sugar 137 Operational Sorties
S for Sugar 137 Operational Sorties YouTube - Lancaster 'S for Sugar" 100th mission (Silent) [IMG]http://www.*******.com/forum/attachments/war-air/6927d1190068060t-only-post-lancaster-pictures-here-band%2520of%2520brothers-jpg[/IMG] Lancaster R5868 ‘S’ for Sugar of 467 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, taxies in at RAF Waddington on the morning of 27 April, 1944, having completed her 95th operation, a raid on the ball-bearing factory at Schweinfurt, Germany. Sporting on her fuselage Goering’s infamous quotation “No enemy plane will fly over the Reich territory….” ‘S’ for Sugar went on to complete 137 operational sorties. This famous bomber, restored to her former glory, now resides in the RAF Museum as a lasting tribute to the men of RAF Bomber Command.
__________________ Spidge,
------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html
"You were given the choice between war and dishonor.
You chose dishonor and you will have war."
(Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.)
What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site:
http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
|  |