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30-04-2008, 12:11 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   | I'm getting irked at the thought of the semi-ordered content of my shelves (the to read pile!) being put into boxes.
__________________ 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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30-04-2008, 06:49 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | Reading "A Delayed Salute" compiled by John Williamson. Australian Book Publishers for Self Publishers; Seaview Press Australia It is to the memory of a ww2 aircrew of 138 "Special Duties" squadron, RAF Tempsford: Killed in action over the North Sea Europe. A tribute by their relatives. Their aircraft Halifax (Mk V) LL 356 ID 'NF-U' with two RAAF, two RCAF & three RAF (1 Welshman & 2 Englishman, was lost on 27/28th of April 1944. The only body recovered was that of John's cousin, George Williamson whose body was washed up on the island of Terschilling two months later and buried the same day. The book tells how the relatives of the crew were all contacted, and how some met in England and some in Canada. Provides details of crew, their bases and prior service and lists many photos as well as personal and official documents. A really good read. Also: Wing Commander John Williamson AM RAAF(Ret). http://www.defence.gov.au/health/inf...lth_3_2_93.pdf A follow up book "The Search" details the world wide search for those relatives. Australian Book Publishers for Self Publishers; Seaview Press Australia Coincidentally, I will post another 138sq story of a son who visits the graves of his father and his crew who were buried by the Marquis, and still revered yearly by the people of their small French town. Plenty of photos for this one.
__________________ 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 Last edited by spidge; 30-04-2008 at 06:57 AM.. |
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02-06-2008, 06:51 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | Not bad for a non-reader, Geoff. Currently reading The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum. Figured I'd read something not quite as precious as the Lambert book on the train.
__________________ 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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02-06-2008, 09:21 AM
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You're Top Poster: #14  | - 633 Squadron - 633 Squadron: Operation Rhine Maiden - 633 Squadron: Operation Valkyrie - The Dambusters
__________________ "No flaps, or rudder control left in her skipper!!" "All right, bail out you chaps... we've all had it..." "We're sure as hell not leaving you here sir!!" "You sure? If you are, I hope to god we can make it back on three engines..." "I'm pretty damn sure Sugar won't let us down now skip!" |
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02-06-2008, 06:55 PM
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You're Top Poster: #4  | Oi! Dambusters should be at top of list dammit! Teehee, anyway this last week I've finished reading 'They Also Serve' - the autobiography of Dorothy Baden-Powell's time in the WRNS as part of an SOE investigation to find out how spies were being got into the RN. More anecdotes and reminiscences. the actual catching of the spy covered 3 pages. Also completed 'A Most Secret Squadron' the story of 618 (Mosquito) Squadron and their trails and tribulations. A stunning read. So now I've finished that art work thank you present for my course leader whats next?
__________________ "Time is a great storyteller" If my calculations are correct SLINKY + ESCALATOR = EVERLASTING FUN God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, "Ah!" - Joseph Campbell |
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02-06-2008, 11:25 PM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | Good to see you can finally read something other than uni work, Kitty. How about a review thread for the 618 book?
__________________ 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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03-06-2008, 02:39 AM
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You're Top Poster: #14 | Maybe we could have a review forum for any of the books that we've read lately guys?
__________________ "No flaps, or rudder control left in her skipper!!" "All right, bail out you chaps... we've all had it..." "We're sure as hell not leaving you here sir!!" "You sure? If you are, I hope to god we can make it back on three engines..." "I'm pretty damn sure Sugar won't let us down now skip!" |
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03-06-2008, 02:52 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: NSW, Australia
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You're Top Poster: #11 | Hi Pathfinder, There is already often very good feedback within the posts and I know that the lads were nice enough to review my book along the way. Down to Earth Maybe a stand alone area, or title the post 'Review' within the Forum?? I'll leave it to the forum experts to assess. Cheers Owen |
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