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18-12-2007, 11:02 AM
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| Super Moderator   Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Melbourne Australia
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You're Top Poster: #3   | 'The Angry Sky'  Flight Sergeant Rawdon Hume Middleton VC. [Courtesy of Australia Post] '...In the face of overwhelming odds...' His devotion to duty in the face of overwhelming odds is unsurpassed in the annals of the Royal Air Force. [From Victoria Cross citation, Flight Sergeant Rawdon Hume Middleton]  Funeral for Flight Sergeant Middleton. [AWM SUK10498] Flight Sergeant Rawdon Middleton, 149 Squadron RAF, was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross for his courage. During a raid on Turin, Italy, on the night of 28-29 November 1942 a shell burst in the cockpit of his Stirling bomber. Although he was badly wounded, Middleton managed to fly the damaged aircraft back to England so his crew could bail out. He then flew out to sea and crashed the bomber to avoid hitting any houses. His body was washed up near Dover two months later. He was buried in the churchyard of St John’s, Beck Row, Mildenhall, Suffolk with full military honours. His Victoria Cross is in the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.
__________________ 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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18-12-2007, 11:44 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | I was about to ask if that was a recent stamp release and then saw the price on the stamp. We're now on 50c for letters, in case anyone is wondering what I'm on about, and have been for 10 years or so. Was this done on the 50th anniversary? Great quote from the link from a 3 Sqn man: … your whole time in operations you lived day by day. You don't think of tomorrow. There ain't no tomorrow…
__________________ 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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