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28-09-2007, 07:07 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Scotland
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You're Top Poster: #12  | Hello Hello to you all, I am ex Royal Navy - served (1976 - 1989). Aircraft carrier ARK ROYAL (RO9) Leander class frigate - DIOMEDE (F16) Various minesweepers. Two Merchant Navy ships. My main interest, surprisingly, is Merchant Navy research. I have my own website dedicated to my late father who was torpedoed during WW2 whilst serving with the Merchant Navy. The Merchant Navy's contribution is often forgotten, so I am here to help keep their sacrifice and service where it belongs - at the top of the list. Without the Merchant Navy, we couldn't have won the war. I hope to be able to contribute to the threads Best regards Hugh |
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28-09-2007, 07:09 PM
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| Kneel before Mod   Join Date: Sep 2007
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You're Top Poster: #4  | Watcha Hugh! Keep that red Duster flying! 
__________________ "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 Heaven doesn't want me, and Hell is too scared I'll take over. |
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28-09-2007, 07:10 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 to the forum, Hugh. Nice to have another member with knowledge of the navy, and it seems that you certainly had a lot of experience. How about using your website as a signature?
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29-09-2007, 01:04 AM
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| Super Moderator  Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Melbourne Australia
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You're Top Poster: #3  | Welcome Hugh, I have always pushed the contribution of the MN or MM as the other services usually got the "glory". They had the highest death ratio (1:25 - 1:26?) which was greater than the death rate in the US Marines. My favourite war movie on the Merchant's as some will know and which you are probably familiar with, is "San Demetrio London". The aim of this Website is to educate and discuss all areas of ww2. We look forward to making all aware of the services that allowed the front liners to win the war especially in areas other than mainstream European LandSeaAir. Logistics for instance is another area that does not receive enough accolades.
__________________ 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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29-09-2007, 08:22 AM
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You're Top Poster: #5  | Hi Hugh, Welcoem to the forum, we are of the same era I was 1976 - 1985! I hope you will enjoy your stay here and look forward to your contributions!
__________________ 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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29-09-2007, 10:51 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 Hugh! Good to see you here. Ahem, I was born in 1976!
__________________ 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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29-09-2007, 12:21 PM
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You're Top Poster: #12 | Thank you all. Quote:
Kyt, thanks for the tip. Thank you all for your welcome - much appreciated. Regards Hugh
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29-09-2007, 12:26 PM
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| Kneel before Mod Join Date: Sep 2007
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You're Top Poster: #4 | I was born in 1979, so stick that in your pipe Kyt!  Yey! The Red Duster is flying!
__________________ "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 Heaven doesn't want me, and Hell is too scared I'll take over. |
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