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03-12-2007, 03:39 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2   | Clever nicknames of servicemen/women Have been thinking about this for a while after posting the "Moth" Eaton thread. Just came across some other great nicknames and thought I'd share. These guys were 260 Sqn pilots and are mentioned in Ron Cundy's A Gremlin on my Shoulder. Sgt Tom "Polly" Parrot P/O "Sticky" Glew Post away if you have more!
__________________ 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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03-12-2007, 06:26 PM
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You're Top Poster: #4  | The lad who now runs the V&W Association is known as 'Stormy' Fairweather. No idea what his real first name is.
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06-12-2007, 10:47 PM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | P/O "Snake" Rattle
__________________ 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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06-12-2007, 11:09 PM
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You're Top Poster: #33  | Clever nicknames Quote:
Ron
__________________ "Called up" on 1/10/1942. Served as a Wireless-Op with the 49th LAA (78 Div) from Apr 1943 to Dec 1944 (North Africa,Sicily,Italy, Egypt). The Regiment was disbanded in Dec 1944 and I was retrained (in Italy) by the Royal Armoured Corps. Served as a Loader-Op with the 4th QOH from Mar 1945 to Jan 1946 (Italy, Austria, Germany) Finished up as Tech Cpl for "A" Sqdrn. "De-mobbed" in Apr 1947 Last edited by Ron Goldstein; 06-12-2007 at 11:13 PM. Reason: Typo | |
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07-12-2007, 12:46 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | Quote:
 Good one.Quote:
Only kidding. Actually, I thought their explanation of his getting the nickname ""Moth" because of his affiliation with the aircraft of the same name was a good story but I was way more inclined to think it was because of his surname.
__________________ 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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07-12-2007, 01:51 AM
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__________________ 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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07-12-2007, 02:02 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | I could have won money that one of you would have picked that up and run with it!
__________________ 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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07-12-2007, 02:07 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | Tell me next time and we'll do a deal!
__________________ 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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