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05-04-2008, 11:07 PM
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You're Top Poster: #28   | Finally made it here. Hi all, Good to see quite a few familiar names here, feel at home already. I research No.120 Squadron RAF Coastal Command from June 1941 when they were reformed to the last day of WW2, and also the aircraft they operated with - the B-24 Liberator. Hence my user name, 120 Squadron are these days known as CXX Squadron. I also have an interest in the U-boat war in general. Hope to some of you around. Regards Peter |
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06-04-2008, 06:31 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3  | Welcome across Peter. Good to see that Latin is still alive and well. 120sq is one of those, where there were a very small number (3) of Aussie deaths. (by my info) One on 25/10/1942 Alan Henry Wood, Torquay Cemetery in (Devon- No Photo as yet) & Two on 4/10/1943 E.A. Mincham & W. Stott on the Runnymede Memorial. panel 191 bottom.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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06-04-2008, 09:09 AM
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| Άρης  Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Terra something or other
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You're Top Poster: #1  | Good to see you here Peter. Always good to have such a knowledgeable person on the forum. Hope you enjoy it here
__________________ _________________  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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06-04-2008, 09:49 AM
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Thanks for the welcome If memory serves me right Wood was killed in an air raid on a hospital in Torquay. Mincham and Stott were killed while providing air escort to convoy ON204 when Liberator FL923 V/120 was shot down by U 539. The squadrons OC was killed in the same incident. | |
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06-04-2008, 10:13 AM
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__________________ _________________ 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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06-04-2008, 05:08 PM
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You're Top Poster: #4 | Welcome to the forum Peter. Good to see you again.
__________________ "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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06-04-2008, 06:45 PM
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You're Top Poster: #20 | Incidentally, CXX are celebrating their 90th birthday this year, with all ex-members invited along. Roxy
__________________ Remembering Flt Lt Al Squires and the crew of CXX/3 RAF, killed on duty in Afghanistan 2 Sep 06.  |
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07-04-2008, 08:24 AM
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Many thanks to all for the welcome. Thanks Roxy, I did know of the CXX reunion. I attended the first one the squadron held in 1985 and the last in 2003, not that I was on the squadron (My father was killed on 120 in 1942), I started researching CXX many years ago now and over a period of time had a lot of contact with the squadron historical officers, they have a fantastic record of their wartime exploits and it is usually displayed at the event. At the 1985 reunion I was billeted in the officers mess, at the 2003 reunion I was billeted in the sergeants mess - I got demoted. Regards Peter | |
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