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28-11-2007, 02:31 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3   | Lt. Commander Edward Henry "Butch" O'Hare (13 March 1914 – 26 November 1943) Lt. Commander Edward Henry "Butch" O'Hare (13 March 1914 – 26 November 1943) Medal of Honor Navy Cross Distinguished Flying Cross (2) Purple Heart Edward O'Hare - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
__________________ 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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29-11-2007, 12:17 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | Flew with Thach, mentored Vraciu, he was certainly a guru when it came to aerial combat. His loss must have been keenly felt. As an aside, Vraciu's Hellcat in which he scored at least some of his victories is owned and flown by The Fighter Collection at Duxford!
__________________ 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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