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20-11-2007, 12:23 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2   | Some pics from the AWM AWM Collection Record: MEB0043 - Gambut, Cyrenaica, Libya. c. August 1943. Aircrew of No. 459 (Naval Co-operation) Squadron RAAF, operating from an airfield in the desert prior to take-off in their Lockheed Hudson aircraft, ... AWM Collection Record: MEB0196 - Gambut, Libya. October 1943. Group Captain J. E. Graham (left), RAAF Liaison Officer, and Wing Commander A. D. Henderson of Sydney, NSW, watch the fitters at work on a Lockheed Hudson aircraft of ...
__________________ 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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20-11-2007, 09:54 PM
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You're Top Poster: #19 | Seeing the Hudson reminded me of an incredible tragic air accident from 1940. Just imagine the aftermath of this terrible loss to a nation going to war. CRASH OF A LOCKHEED HUDSON 8 MILES FROM CANBERRA ON 13 AUGUST 1940 13 August 1940 - Crash of a Lockheed Hudson 8 miles from Canberra |
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20-11-2007, 11:15 PM
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They are remembered at Brookwood memorial in Sydney, Ellalong cemetery NSW, Springvale (Melbourne) and the other at Melbourne General cemetery which I have on my database (attached) Attachment 793
__________________ 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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