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15-10-2007, 03:38 AM
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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, Blackwatch. We've a number of members interested in aviation too. Tell us a bit more about yourself. What unit(s) did you serve in, when, where..... we love to hear about veterans' experiences. I hope you enjoy the forum.
__________________ _________________  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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15-10-2007, 04:50 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, Blackwatch. Hope you enjoy it here. It's an honour to have another vet on board. Hope we've got enough aircraft pics for you!
__________________ 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. Last edited by Antipodean Andy; 15-10-2007 at 05:29 AM. |
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15-10-2007, 05:28 AM
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| Super Moderator   Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Melbourne Australia
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You're Top Poster: #3 | Welcome Blackwatch, Look forward to hearing a bit more about yourself.
__________________ 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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15-10-2007, 07:45 AM
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| Super Moderator  Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Wishaw, Lanarkshire
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You're Top Poster: #5  | Hi Blackwatch, welcome to the forum. Hope you enjoy your stay 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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15-10-2007, 10:30 AM
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| Kneel before Mod  Join Date: Sep 2007
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You're Top Poster: #4  | welcome to the forum Blackwatch. 
__________________ "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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15-10-2007, 11:07 AM
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| Junior Member  Join Date: Oct 2007
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You're Top Poster: #39 | a brief overview as I read this back to myself, I am amazed and will understand those that would doubt me and mine, but these are the words and are a very brief history of me and mine.... My great-great-great-great grandfather on my fathers side was in the Civil War from start to finish...he was one of General Grant's First Sergeant’s at the Surrender at Appomattox...on my mothers side, My great-great-great-great grandfather served with Mosby's Rangers and died late in the war from disease... On my wife’s side, her grandfather served in WW1 as a mechanic in Europe…… And his brother was killed as a dispatch motorcycle rider the last day of the war by a sniper while carrying word and dispatches of the Armistice...later his brother had to ID the body after 6 months interred.... One great uncle was Infantry in the Aleutians and survived, another was a Ranger and climbed Pont-du-hoc on D-Day, and was killed in the Battle of Hürtgen Forest. My father was a Navy CPO Navy flight electronics on the old DEW line Super Connie’s...they didn't issue parachutes because the Super Connie’s were so far out over the Pacific there was no to rescue them in time anyway I was a USAF Senior Airman stationed at Pope AFB as part of a Red Horse Team and "Prime Rib" team (light construction and heavy construction...we were to set up a fully operational airfield while under fire and to fight, if necessary, which included revetments and fuel bunkers and Tower IN 72 HOURS...later I got out and went back into the U.S. Army...I was a 11b (infantry) and 12b (combat engineer), and 54b (NBC NCOIC)... Since then I have worked in a wide variety of jobs as a wildcatter, wielder and worked in 3 major National Banks...My wife is a HIGHLY specialized tertiary care OBGYN Nurse…. ...I have 4 children, two at home (Boy and Girl) and two serving (Boy and Girl) ...both that are serving are the first EVER Officers in the entire long family history, one is Air Force and one is Army...both are combat arms... and we, as a family in heritage and history, have served both the English Crown and the US Constitution (hence the name "Black Watch"), and I can wear the tartans if I would choose too. My next oldest son carries a 3.5 GPA and is to be Airborne Ranger. My youngest wants to be a Surgeon.... We are Appalachian Scots-Irish ‘Rednecks’, to the bone... |
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15-10-2007, 11:11 AM
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| Kneel before Mod Join Date: Sep 2007
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You're Top Poster: #4 | Blackwatch, can you translate all of those acronyms for those of us who don't understand them (ie me!)
__________________ "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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15-10-2007, 11:13 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 | Bloody hell, makes the red Kalgoorlie dust in my veins positively primitive! Again, bloody good to have you join us, BW.
__________________ 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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