11-10-2007, 07:15 PM
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You're Top Poster: #1   | FAA Quiz OK, just a little teaser. Can anyone find and post the badge for 818 Squadron? You'd be surprised.
__________________ _________________  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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11-10-2007, 09:09 PM
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You're Top Poster: #3  | I will wait for the answer as it won't be on the net.......will it?
__________________ 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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11-10-2007, 09:18 PM
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You're Top Poster: #1 | teehee - maybe/maybe not
__________________ _________________ 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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11-10-2007, 09:25 PM
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You're Top Poster: #5  | Quote:
http://www.fleetairarmarchive.net/Squadrons/818.html No crest! 
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11-10-2007, 09:29 PM
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You're Top Poster: #1 | An interesting situation isn't it? I shall allow Andy a go and then post my scan (unless someone finds a copy first). Haven't quite figured out the "issue" but you'll understand when it's posted.
__________________ _________________ 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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11-10-2007, 10:06 PM
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You're Top Poster: #1 | OK I couldn't wait. So far no-one can find the 818 Squadron crest. The FAA Archive seem to have decided that this would do:  However, the actual crest is:  And interesting choice of badge, I thought.
__________________ _________________ 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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11-10-2007, 10:09 PM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | Well done!
__________________ 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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12-10-2007, 12:08 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | In late this morning (0730) rather than my usual 0600 but, given Kyt's impatience, I wouldn't have answered anyway! LOL. Nah, had a quick look around and couldn't find anything. Interesting that even though the first design was not approved, a second one was not put forward. Kyt, have you let the FAA Archive know or doyou think they've omitted the design deliberately? I'm amazed a sqn with the credentials of 818 went without a "proper" crest.
__________________ 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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12-10-2007, 12:16 AM
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You're Top Poster: #1 | I was thinking of contacting the archive. But one theory I have, considering that they must have Sturtivant's* The Squadrons of the Fleet Air Arm, is that the swastika is banned in Germany, and so they didn't want to offend anyone. National laws can be a tricky business when producing historical websites. * that's where the above scan comes from
__________________ _________________ 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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12-10-2007, 12:28 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | I reckon you're right, Kyt.
__________________ 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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