21-06-2008, 08:12 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3   | We have a winner! Morse 1st 1 Somalia 5,800,000 2 Sudan 3,180,000 3 Pakistan 1,200,000 Kitty 2nd Nobody 3rd Your turn Morse.
__________________ 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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22-06-2008, 07:50 AM
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You're Top Poster: #5  | Who or What was "shilling, Sixpence, Half Crown and Pound"?
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22-06-2008, 05:28 PM
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You're Top Poster: #4  | dear god thats ringing a distant bell, i'm sure i once heard my grandfather use that in reference to something other than money.
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22-06-2008, 06:32 PM
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You're Top Poster: #5 | Quote:
You are slightly warm! This post was done with the aid of the speech recognition facility on my new computer! I never pressed a key!
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22-06-2008, 11:40 PM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | The phrase is ringing bells with me to however nobody is home at the moment. I thought it was something to do with those platforms out in the channel or radar beacons or the like.
__________________ 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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23-06-2008, 07:34 AM
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23-06-2008, 09:45 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | Code names for SOE radio operating teams that liaised with resistance groups in France, Holland & on operations such as Market Garden etc. Code names for those Jedburgh teams. Currency of many countries were used as code names. Full list here: World War II Special Operations Forces, CODE AND COVER NAMES
__________________ 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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23-06-2008, 09:20 PM
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13-07-2008, 10:06 PM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | Crikey, you go away and come back and Geoff stil hasn't come up with a question...:-P
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