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05-03-2008, 09:31 PM
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You're Top Poster: #38   | Ii./kg26 Hi all, I'd like to introduce myself, my name is Nick, 19 years old. I live in Gilze, in the Netherlands. Near the former German Fliegerhorst Gilze-Rijen, which has my main interest. I do research over here, with the help of books, many friends, archives and my metaldetector. I'll hope to speak you guys on the forum. Greetings, II./KG26
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05-03-2008, 09:38 PM
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You're Top Poster: #5  | Welcome to the forum, I hopw you an enjoyable time here and look forward to your posts!
__________________ 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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05-03-2008, 09:58 PM
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You're Top Poster: #2  | Welcome, mate. What have you found with your metal detector?
__________________ 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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05-03-2008, 10:48 PM
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You're Top Poster: #38 | Quote:
Thanks all of you. Finds? You name it... Lets say quite a lot. German helmets, M1 Garand, Canteens, Ammunition.... basic stuff. Regards, Nick
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05-03-2008, 11:02 PM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | Amazing stuff. No aircraft yet then? ;-)
__________________ 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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05-03-2008, 11:57 PM
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| Άρης  Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Terra something or other
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You're Top Poster: #1  | Welcome Nick. Photos of you finds would be great
__________________ _________________  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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06-03-2008, 12:25 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | Welcome to the forum Nick. I read somewhere that one of the Dambuster Lancaster's crashed on the Gilze-Rijen airfield with no survivors on the way to the Dams. AJ-S ED865/G P/O L. J. Burpee RCAF Sgt. G. Pegler RAF Sgt. T. Faye RAF P/O L.G. Weller RAF WO2 J.L. Arthur RCAF Sgt. W.C.A. Long RAF WO2 J.G. Brady RCAF
__________________ 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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06-03-2008, 08:35 AM
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You're Top Poster: #38 | Hi Spidge, can you give me a date of that crashsite? Then I can sort things out, and look if I have some more information. I will show pictures etc. in time. Regards, and thanks. Nick
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06-03-2008, 08:45 AM
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You're Top Poster: #1 | It is assumed to have been shotdown by flak, at about 2 am on the 17th May 1943, on the outward run to the Dams, after straying off course
__________________ _________________ 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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