26-01-2008, 07:15 PM
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You're Top Poster: #11   | Blood Chit Hi All, I recently had cause to scan Dad's "Blood Chit" from Korea. Wiki explains, "Blood chit is a notice that is carried by the military, usually aircraft personnel, that displays messages aimed at the civilians that ask them to help the service member in case they are shot down. Chit is English slang for a small document or note. I'm attaching a scan. You often see them stitched onto the back of flight jackets of pilots. a Web Blood Chit.jpg Cheers Owen Last edited by Nostalgair; 28-01-2008 at 09:08 AM.. |
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26-01-2008, 07:25 PM
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You're Top Poster: #1  | Cheers Owen. Most people have probably heard of the Blood Chits issued to the USAAF in the Far East / CBI but the RAF also issued them to air crews. The example attached is for North Africa. I have heard of ones for Burma but have never seen them
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28-01-2008, 07:05 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | Renewing..................
__________________ 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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28-01-2008, 09:10 AM
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You're Top Poster: #11 | Hi Kyt, Thanks for the scan. The Blood Chit many folks are aware of were those worn by the 'Flying Tigers'. In writing 'Down to Earth', Kenneth referred to his as a 'Goolie Chit' when he was flying in the Middle East. 'Goolie' being slang for testicle.  Cheers Owen |
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28-01-2008, 09:23 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | My dad used to use the phrase "Goolies" when someone got kicked or grabbed.
__________________ 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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28-01-2008, 09:32 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | The beggars in the town in Egypt used to get "imshee" (get going however it was meant as P**s off!
__________________ 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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