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07-03-2008, 05:44 PM
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| Kneel before Mod   Join Date: Sep 2007
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You're Top Poster: #4   | OK, where's me wellies?
__________________ "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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08-03-2008, 06:14 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  | And snorkel and a pair of gloves so you don't cut your hands on jagged metal as you haul it up! Where's Tony Robinson...;-)
__________________ 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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08-03-2008, 08:11 AM
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| Junior Member  Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Gilze.
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You're Top Poster: #37  | How I know? Found many parts and ammunition of the Lancaster JN-D who crashed there on the 28th of may 1944 (02.30 am). Killing 3 of the crewmembers. It was shot down by German Nachtjagd from the airflied of Gilze-Rijen. Its objective was railroad emplacements near Aachen. I have pictures of one of the survivors who visited the site in 1979. Also pictures taken the same day of the crash, and the report of a eyewitness. Its also discribed in the book Vijf Jaar Luchtfront, written by Wout van den Hout (the eyewitniss). I read the report about the dambuster, will get back on that subject later. Many thanks! Thnx, Nick
__________________ Fliegerhorst Gilze-Rijen. 1940 / 1944. |
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08-03-2008, 09:07 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 | Excellent, Nick! Do you have time to start a new thread about the crash and what you have found? Would be a fitting "e-memorial" to the three crew lost. Sorry to keep asking you questions, mate.
__________________ 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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08-03-2008, 11:44 AM
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You're Top Poster: #37 | I'll be happy to do it. I have made an article in Dutch, so have to translate that. I have some trouble with English so it can take a while. Regards, Nick
__________________ Fliegerhorst Gilze-Rijen. 1940 / 1944. |
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08-03-2008, 12:10 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 | Good on you, Nick. Feel free ask us if you get stuck!
__________________ 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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08-03-2008, 07:06 PM
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| Kneel before Mod Join Date: Sep 2007
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You're Top Poster: #4 | Nick your English is very good. So no need to worry about that. *Goes off to work to see if I can 'borrow' some water gear*
__________________ "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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