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21-01-2008, 12:25 PM
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You're Top Poster: #1   | I heard mention of this on another forum and was intending to follow it up. Thanks for that David. Was intrigued by the idra of Spit V Spit combat.
__________________ _________________  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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21-01-2008, 12:35 PM
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You're Top Poster: #2  | Quite disturbing really. Found this amusing in an otherwise sad state of affairs: The early morning raid caught the pilots of 208 Sqn recovering from the after-effects of an exuberant Dining-In Night, during which it had been decided to destroy the Officers' Mess to prevent it falling intact into the hands of the Israelis. I know very little about what's going on in that neck of the woods or, more correctly, how it all started but I can certainly understand the Palestinians anger at being partitioned.
__________________ 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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21-01-2008, 12:37 PM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | Very interesting indeed!
__________________ 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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23-03-2008, 04:53 PM
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You're Top Poster: #32 | Quote:
I found the pics whilst trawling the net for battle-damage photos. BC Last edited by BC1; 23-03-2008 at 04:54 PM. Reason: typo | |
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24-03-2008, 12:54 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | Do you have a link we could check out, BC1?
__________________ 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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24-03-2008, 10:44 AM
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You're Top Poster: #5  | As a member of the RAF Historical Society, I checked it out and the author's name is Sqdn Ldr Bruce Williamson. The thing about the Spit V Spit thing, On the Israeli side, The Canadian had been on Malta during the siege and had won A DFC and Bar. The American had flown a tour n Spits with the RAF before transferring to the US Navy and finally as a trest pilot with Bell Aviation. So, they were more experienced flyers, while the pilots on the RAF side were realitive new comers.
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24-03-2008, 11:01 PM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | Indeed, very experienced pilots.
__________________ 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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