26-01-2008, 11:18 AM
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| Άρης  Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Terra something or other
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You're Top Poster: #1   | Bristol Blitz As we have a new member (Bobert) who worked in Bristol during part of the war, I'm sure he has many memories of the Bristol Blitz(s). Two sites that are excellent are: Bristol Past : Fishponds Local History Society (this is one of the best WW2 local history websites I've ever seen) Some good pictures: 1940 - 1960
__________________ _________________  Beaufighter TF Mark Xs (NV427 'EO-L' nearest) of No. 404 Squadron RCAF based at Dallachy, Morayshire, breaking formation during a flight along the Scottish coast. February 1945. |
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28-01-2008, 06:08 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2  | Renewing..............
__________________ 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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05-03-2008, 12:47 PM
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You're Top Poster: #28  | My Grandmother worked in a munitions factory in Hotwell, she walked to work from Westbury Park each morning. The morning after the heavy raid when Park Street was hit hard, she remembered the gutters down Jacobs Wells being a burning river of sugar. She also remembered seeiing Bristol burn, she was watching from the Downs. She had fascinating stories, i use to enjoy hearing them when i was younger, really wish i had a better memory or had written them down.
__________________ There are those of our friends who were among us who have left our ranks, having been called to Higher Service. We know that this time their sacrifice and the sacrifice of their dear ones at home will not be made in vain. LT.-CCL. C. L. HARRISON, T.D..R.A. |
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