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24-05-2008, 10:16 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: May 2008 Location: Officers' Mess, RAF Elwick, Cambridgeshire
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You're Top Poster: #12   | Glad to be here Hey all, I'm James, 18 and I'm from New Zealand. My WW2 interest is Bomber Command; I'm a great-nephew to two Pathfinder Force airmen (P/O D.J. Marks, DFM - pilot and F/Lt F. Prebble, DFC - bomb aimer). I'm glad I found this community! I hope to contribute to the site in some way!! ~ James
__________________ "No flaps, or rudder control left in her skipper!!" "All right, bail out you chaps... we've all had it..." "We're sure as hell not leaving you here sir!!" "You sure? If you are, I hope to god we can make it back on three engines..." "I'm pretty damn sure Sugar won't let us down now skip!" |
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24-05-2008, 10:41 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 James You and David Layne have a lot in common - a 97 Squadron connection! Lancaster ED862 being lost in July 1943, there is only two months difference between David's connection. Bet you'll have a lot to talk about.
__________________ _________________  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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24-05-2008, 10:57 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: Officers' Mess, RAF Elwick, Cambridgeshire
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You're Top Poster: #12 | Yes, we will Kyt. His father, Wally Layne, flew as W/Op in F/Lt Fletcher's crew in 97, who flew ED862 on several ops (ED862P - "Spurius" flew 11 ops from her arrival to her death on 30.7.43).
__________________ "No flaps, or rudder control left in her skipper!!" "All right, bail out you chaps... we've all had it..." "We're sure as hell not leaving you here sir!!" "You sure? If you are, I hope to god we can make it back on three engines..." "I'm pretty damn sure Sugar won't let us down now skip!" |
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25-05-2008, 01:08 AM
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| Super Moderator   Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Wishaw, Lanarkshire
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You're Top Poster: #5  | Welcome, James, to the forum, hope you enjoy your stay here with us.
__________________ 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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25-05-2008, 06:38 AM
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| Super Moderator  Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Melbourne Australia
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You're Top Poster: #3  | Warm welcome to the forum James. I am sure you will feel at home here.
__________________ 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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25-05-2008, 05:06 PM
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| Kneel before Mod  Join Date: Sep 2007
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You're Top Poster: #4  | Watcha James 
__________________ "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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