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05-06-2008, 01:02 AM
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You're Top Poster: #10   | Shackleton Memorial http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2074...-memorial.html Not quite WW2, but a memorial has been dedicated to the 140 Shackleton crewmen lost while preserving our freedom in the Cold War. |
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05-06-2008, 03:56 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2  | Excellent to hear that the men and women who stayed vigilant will be remembered. Unfortunately, with the grounding of the Shack in the US, the only one left flying is in South Africa. 60th anniversary of the RR Griffon? Um...
__________________ 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; 05-06-2008 at 03:59 AM.. |
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05-06-2008, 03:59 AM
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__________________ 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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05-06-2008, 09:34 AM
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You're Top Poster: #5  | At Alness, we used to do exercises with Shackletons, on the last one, a SAREX, the aircraft dropped the lindeholme gear right on top of the "survivor" a SARBE in a tupperware box in a singeseater dinghy. Had there been a injured man, then they would have been killed as the centre cannister landed right on top of the dingy! But is nice to know that the men who lost their lives in the cause of freedom, will be remembered in the memorial.
__________________ 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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05-06-2008, 06:56 PM
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You're Top Poster: #4  | Synchronicity at work. I got a text about this whilst at the National Memorial Arboretum today. One newly unveiled memorial for you.     ayethankyou
__________________ "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. Last edited by Kyt; 05-06-2008 at 07:10 PM.. |
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06-06-2008, 12:24 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | That's very good. Very timely, Kitty.
__________________ 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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06-06-2008, 12:57 AM
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You're Top Poster: #10 | Quote:
The Spitfire Mk XII first flew with the Griffon in 1943, and I believe the first flight of the Griffon would have been the previous year, fitted to the Spitfire Mk III (a one-off used as an engine testbed). So its amazing this engine was still in service in 1991. | |
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06-06-2008, 12:58 AM
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__________________ 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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