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12-10-2007, 04:08 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2   | Short Sunderland http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Sunderland http://www.odyssey.dircon.co.uk/Sund.htm http://www.fantasyofflight.com/aircr...sunderland.htm - with an excellent insight into mooring the "boat". http://www.divetheworld.com/Diving/w...9044/index.htm One of the greats.
__________________ 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. |
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12-10-2007, 04:17 AM
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You're Top Poster: #1  | From Flight magazine - 1939: http://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPD...20-%200185.pdf http://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPD...20-%200186.pdf http://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPD...20-%200187.pdf http://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPD...20-%200188.pdf http://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPD...20-%200191.pdf http://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPD...20-%200192.pdf
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12-10-2007, 04:20 AM
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You're Top Poster: #1 | And a bit of gloating. I have the following book signed by: Air Marshal Sir Edward Chilton, KBE, CB Group Captain G. Francis, DSO, DFC Wg. Cdr Douglas M. Gall, DFC, MA Wg. Cdr. Victor Hodgkinson, DFC, MRAeS Wg, Cdr. H.W. Lamond Wg. Cdr. A.M. G. Lywood, DFC W.E. Mortimer J.C. Norval, I.ENG, FRAeS Wg. Cdr. R.E.G. Van der Kiste, DSO, OBE Chaz Bowyer.
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12-10-2007, 04:21 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | Awesome, Kyt, awesome (basket).
__________________ 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. |
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12-10-2007, 04:34 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | Great aircraft........love it.
__________________ 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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12-10-2007, 04:38 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | Always loved the irony of RAAF Sunderland111 U/461 sinking U-Boat ....U461.
__________________ 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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12-10-2007, 04:39 AM
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__________________ 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. |
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12-10-2007, 04:42 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | Quote:
 http://uboat.net/boats/u461.htm http://ahoy.tk-jk.net/macslog/Coasta...nderlandU.html
__________________ 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. Last edited by Antipodean Andy; 12-10-2007 at 04:44 AM.. | |
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30-10-2007, 12:31 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | 10 Squadron RAAF Sunderland Crews 1939
__________________ 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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