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28-10-2007, 08:26 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3   | Australian Dambuster - Les Knight Noticed this after a modern Day RAF simulation of Les Knight RAAF and his crew to see if they could pull it off. http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/s...a3912185.shtml Quote:
__________________ 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 Last edited by spidge; 28-10-2007 at 01:01 PM.. | |
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28-10-2007, 08:35 AM
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You're Top Poster: #1  | What was the programme, Spidge? Here's a clip of Ray Grayston, Les's Flight Engineer talking about him: http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/s...mbusters_2.php (video entitled Les Knight. If you can't open pop-ups then move the cursor over "Play Clip", right click on mouse and "open in another window")
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28-10-2007, 11:13 AM
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You're Top Poster: #5  | I can't remember the name, but it was done by the BBC to see if modern day people could carry out the same job as done fifty years ago! i
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28-10-2007, 12:57 PM
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Sorry if it seemed confusing as I omitted to put in the BBC link. http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/s...a3912185.shtml Missed the intro and cannot find the foxtel guide to viewing. The present day RAF crew (female pilot) simulated in a Lancaster. I had a visitor near the end and only caught that they had succeeded but hit to the left of where Knight did. They were using only ww2 available aids in navigation etc. This was possibly the same guy being interviewed however a few years older and a lot greyer. Much was said about how they had did a dummy run at the Eder and used a new method to adjust the fast speed after quickly dropping altitude to line up the dam.
__________________ 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 Last edited by spidge; 28-10-2007 at 01:01 PM.. | |
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28-10-2007, 12:59 PM
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__________________ 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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28-10-2007, 02:19 PM
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28-10-2007, 04:14 PM
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You're Top Poster: #1 | Oh, that one - I know the programme you guys mean: http://www.channel4.com/history/micr...rew/index.html
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28-10-2007, 07:44 PM
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You're Top Poster: #4  | I was just thinking it was CH4. I watched it and was mildly digusted that they recalculated the final run so they did hit the dam. That was a cop out.
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28-10-2007, 07:47 PM
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You're Top Poster: #5 | It shows how the memory works! never saw more than five minutes at a time!
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28-10-2007, 07:49 PM
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You're Top Poster: #4 | i watched the entire 2hour (?) programme. never been so bored in my life.
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