| The RAF & RAN deaths on D-Day.
Australians killed in France on D-Day (from the Roll of Honour)
Sub-Lieutenant Bruce Valentine Ashton RAN Attached to the Royal Navy
Flight Sergeant Malcolm Robert Burgess RAAF 50 SquadronRAF
Pilot Officer Albert Lance Coates RAAF 299 Squadron RAF
Flight Lieutenant Ronald John Conley DFC RAAF 97 Squadron RAF
Flight Sergeant Barry Alan Croft RAAF 299 Squadron RAF
Flight Sergeant Leslie John Gilbert DFM RAAF 299 Squadron RAF
Flight Sergeant George John Howard RAAF 181 Squadron RAF
Flying Officer Graydon Raymond Howe RAAF 42 Operational Training Unit RAF
Pilot Officer Harvey Francis Munday RAAF 149 Squadron RAF
Squadron Leader Arthur Geoffrey Oxlade RAAF 464 Squadron RAAF
Sub-Lieutenant Richard Pirrie RAN Attached to the Royal Navy
Flying Officer Alfred Ernest Roberts RAAF 164 Squadron RAF
Pilot Officer Roland Gilbert Ward RAAF 50 Squadron RAF
Flight Sergeant Gordon Washbourne RAAF 115 Squadron RAF
__________________ 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
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