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11-12-2007, 11:42 PM
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| Junior Member  Join Date: Dec 2007
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You're Top Poster: #54   | New member I'm a fifty-three year old American living in Cary, North Carolina, married, with two sons and two daughters. I've always been fascinated by the history of World War II -- my father served in the Marshall Islands as a Navy Seabee, and was on Kwajalein Atoll when it was bombed by the Japanese. My uncle Irwin ("Zipper") was a B-24 navigator who served with General Claire Chennault's 14th Air Force in China until his aircraft disappeared over the Hump in 1944, en route from Kunming to Chabua, Assam. Some of my favorite books and films have been about World War II: "The Bridge on the River Kwai", "The Longest Day", "Twelve O'Clock High", and "The Guns of Navarone", for example. In my spare time, I'm reading Churchill's history "The Second World War". But, apart from my work, most of my time these days is taken up with getting the US Defense Department to send a recovery mission to my uncle's crash site in Arunachal Pradesh. The crash site was discovered a whole year ago by a private American investigator, but the US Government has done nothing to get a recovery mission underway, giving the surviving relatives all sorts of flimsy excuses for its inaction. Anyway, I'm very happy to be a member of this forum, and hope to contribute to the discussions in any small way I can. |
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12-12-2007, 12:39 AM
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| Άρης  Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Terra something or other
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You're Top Poster: #1  | Welcome garyz. I think we're all happy amateurs here so I'm sure you'll fit right in.
__________________ _________________  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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12-12-2007, 01:02 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  | Welcome Gary. Yep, we're certainly a happy bunch. We can even sound intelligent! Hope you enjoy it here and I wish you every success in returning your Uncle home.
__________________ 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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12-12-2007, 01:34 AM
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| Member  Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Goulburn NSW Australia
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You're Top Poster: #26 | Welcome Cary hope you enjoy your time with us. Governments are keen to send people overseas not keen on bringing them back once they're found. It took a long time to get the Australian Govt. to become interested in bringing our MIA's back from Vietnam but they've been shamed into it and are now actively involved. Good luck getting your uncle home seeing it's election time over there perhaps some timely advertising can obtain some action. Rod |
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12-12-2007, 01:06 PM
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| Super Moderator   Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Melbourne Australia
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You're Top Poster: #3 | Welcome Gary, Glad to have you on board. An interesting association with ww2. I have been to Majuro in the Marshall's quite a few times in my travel's around the Pacific and think your dad would have enjoyed his time there. Cary, I know was the birthplace of Walter Hines Page who as US ambassador to Great Britain, was most likely responsible for bringing the United States into WW1. Look forward to your posts. How did you come across this forum? Cheers Geoff
__________________ 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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12-12-2007, 06:47 PM
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| Kneel before Mod  Join Date: Sep 2007
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You're Top Poster: #4  | Watcha Gary, welcome to this little band of brothers and a few sisters too 
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13-12-2007, 05:49 AM
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You're Top Poster: #54 | Quote:
I didn't know that about Walter Hines Page..But I knew that Cary's most important landmark is the Page-Walker Hotel, which is located on Ambassador Loop, not surprisingly. It's interesting how I came across this forum. I was doing a Google search on "Arunachal Pradesh", the Indian state where my uncle's B-24 crashed, and I got a hit on the post made by Andy in West Oz about the B-24 wreckage found in the Lower Dibang District of Arunachal Pradesh. I knew that wasn't my uncle's plane, because my uncle's plane had crashed in the East Siang district of Arunachal Pradesh. | |
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