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Antipodean Andy · 11-10-2007, 01:21 AM

Crazy Yanks. "Six Seventeer" is an Americanism. I slipped up once with David, "my" Lanc gunner, and sai "Five Fourteen". His response was "Always call it 5 1 4, it's the RAF!"

My biggest bug in this area is when a sqn gets called the 617th Sqn! Having said that, there's some fascinating USAAF stuff out there (must start a thread along those lines) and I'm sure we get their terminology wrong!

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Antipodean Andy Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Outer reaches, Melbourne, Victoria Posts: 4,040 You're Top Poster: #2 Awards Showcase Total Awards: 7	Crazy Yanks. "Six Seventeer" is an Americanism. I slipped up once with David, "my" Lanc gunner, and sai "Five Fourteen". His response was "Always call it 5 1 4, it's the RAF!" My biggest bug in this area is when a sqn gets called the 617th Sqn! Having said that, there's some fascinating USAAF stuff out there (must start a thread along those lines) and I'm sure we get their terminology wrong! __________________ http://www.454-459squadrons.org.au/. http://www.awm.gov.au/index.asp Aircraft from No. 60 Squadron levelling out for the "run in" to make a mast-head attack on a Japanese coaster off Akyab. Courtesy AWM.