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03-06-2008, 10:02 PM
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| Άρης  Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Terra something or other
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You're Top Poster: #1   | The Unfinished Drink
__________________ _________________  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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03-06-2008, 10:26 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Outer reaches, Melbourne, Victoria
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You're Top Poster: #2  | A very moving story. Can't find the right words to explain it. Thanks Kyt, never heard it before.
__________________ 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, 11:01 PM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | He is in a lovely cemetery - Suda Bay, with eight Aussie flyers. Suda Bay Cemetery View.JPG Suda Bay Cemetery View2.jpg Suda Bay General View Graves.JPG
__________________ 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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03-06-2008, 11:02 PM
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You're Top Poster: #5  | A sad story!
__________________ WWW.Warfaretoday.com HSL130 picking up the crew of a downed Halifax  Et tantis pretis constitutis plures Macropodidas in hae caupona minime videbis |
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03-06-2008, 11:08 PM
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| Άρης Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Terra something or other
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You're Top Poster: #1 | I only came across the story because Billy Connolly visited the pub in question and mentioned the bottle and story, earlier on tellie
__________________ _________________ 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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03-06-2008, 11:19 PM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | I can just imagine Billy telling it to. He would have been quite moved. Spidge, are the eight Aussies the 454 guys?
__________________ 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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