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06-11-2007, 03:21 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Outer reaches, Melbourne, Victoria
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You're Top Poster: #2   | S/L Stanley Muller-Rowland An excerpt from page 153 of Roy Nesbit's The Armed Rovers detailing an op on Sept 15, 1943: This was Stanley Muller-Rowland's last operational flight with 39 Squadron. His commanding officer, Wing Commander Nelson Harvey, recollects that his flight commander was a 'demon for operations and working up squadron efficiency'. During his period of operations on Beaufighters, his eyes 'glowed with enthusiasm' whenever he was detailed to lead the squadron, and he had to be almost forcibly restrained from participating in every sortie. After each attack, he analysed the methods used and examined photogrpahs meticulously, frequently proposing improvements in tactics. His loss would have been a serious blow to morale in the squadron, where he was known as 'the wonder boy from Woking'. Decorated with a DFC and Bar, he was posted to Shallufa, where his job was to train new crews and pick out future leaders of his own calibre. Those who knew him in his new role as an instructor still remember him vividly. But the anti-shipping squadrons in the Mediterranean had not seen the last of this truly remarkable pilot, who was still only twenty-one years of age. 21?! Wow, awe-inspiring.
__________________ 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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06-11-2007, 06:13 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | Some further detail from the book Whispering Death: http://books.google.com/books?id=rN_...nIfciF0UncvuVc
__________________ 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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06-11-2007, 10:51 PM
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| Άρης  Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Terra something or other
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You're Top Poster: #1  | His brother was discussed in rafcommands: http://www.rafcommands.com/cgi-bin/d...D6&archive=yes And the memorial with his name included: http://www.windowonwoking.org.uk/tes...ellvillageonly
__________________ _________________  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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