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27-09-2007, 05:24 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2   | The Cinderella Service http://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/produ...&cat=22&page=1 Came across this while searching for various things. Looks like a comprehensive job. Too pricey for me but thought it might be of interest. Any reviews?
__________________ 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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27-09-2007, 05:34 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | No reviews however there are some great photographs here of Coastal Command. http://www.diggerhistory3.info/coastal/
__________________ 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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27-09-2007, 10:22 AM
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You're Top Poster: #1  | Yes, I've seen that book too. However, I've been put off by the price/page ratio, and the fact that nobody else has recommended it yet either. However, I have a couple of books on my wishlist (though quite low at the moment because the last thing I want to do is develop interest in another vast area of the RAF that would cost me a fortune  ):A Forgotten Offensive: Royal Air Force Coastal Command's Anti-shipping Campaign, 1940-45 Search, Find and Kill!: Coastal Command's U-boat Successes in World War Two Though I really want this one: The Other Few: Bomber and Coastal Command Operations in the Battle of Britain
__________________ _________________  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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27-09-2007, 10:41 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | Not a bad set of books considering you're trying not to get into CC too much...don't think I've got any CC books. Sad state of affairs really but am enjoying the anti-shipping, low level Med work too much at the moment! Peter Clare's about the only CC expert I know. Is he coming over from the dark side, I wonder? You know you want to... 
__________________ 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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27-09-2007, 10:45 AM
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You're Top Poster: #5  | The book on coastal command that I am looking for is called "Coastal Command Through the Looking Glass" it was a series of cartoons produced by members of coastal command about their lifes and work! I remeber reading it in the SASOs office at Pitreavie caste while on guard duty!
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27-09-2007, 10:46 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | Will keep my eyes open, Morse! Sounds like a ripper 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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27-09-2007, 10:50 AM
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You're Top Poster: #1 | Sounds interesting, Morse - but I can't find any reference to it on abe etc. Must be very rare
__________________ _________________ 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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27-09-2007, 11:01 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | Same here. Bloody Lewis Carroll.
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