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13-09-2007, 01:38 PM
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You're Top Poster: #1   | Empire Air Forces Reviewed - 1939 http://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPD...20-%200513.pdf http://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPD...20-%200514.pdf http://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPD...20-%200517.pdf http://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPD...20-%200518.pdf http://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPD...20-%200519.pdf http://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPD...20-%200520.pdf http://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPD...20-%200525.pdf http://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPD...20-%200526.pdf http://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPD...20-%200527.pdf
__________________ _________________  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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13-09-2007, 01:39 PM
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You're Top Poster: #1 | Air Forces In Empire Lands... ....AND ALLIED COUNTRIES 1939 http://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPD...20-%200533.pdf http://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPD...20-%200534.pdf http://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPD...20-%200535.pdf http://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPD...20-%200536.pdf http://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPD...20-%200539.pdf http://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPD...20-%200540.pdf
__________________ _________________ 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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13-09-2007, 01:50 PM
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__________________ 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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13-09-2007, 01:57 PM
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You're Top Poster: #1 | Fleet Air Arm An often forgotten airforce is the FAA. This site tries to fill that gap in the history of WW2: http://www.fleetairarmarchive.net/Index.html ....and in my view, does it very well
__________________ _________________ 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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24-09-2007, 11:56 AM
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You're Top Poster: #1 | Czech Air Force
__________________ _________________ 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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24-09-2007, 12:05 PM
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You're Top Poster: #1 | French Air Forces http://perso.orange.fr/frenchaces/ This site is in French, but Babel seems to provide a reasonable translation. It's well worth the effort because the site covers both the Allied and Vichy units. Enter the above url into the "Translate a Web page" on http://babelfish.altavista.com/ and change to "French to English"
__________________ _________________ 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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24-09-2007, 04:24 PM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | Us 6th Air Mobility Wing History U.S. Air Force Fact Sheet 6TH AIR MOBILITY WING HISTORY The 6th began its long and illustrious history on 30 September 1919 as the 3d Observation Group at France Field in the Panama Canal Zone. Its mission: providing protection for the Panama Canal area, participating in maneuvers, flying patrol missions, photographing the canal area, staging aerial reviews and making good-flights to Central and South America. In 1921 the group was redesignated the 6th Group (Observation) and in 1922, the 6th Group (Composite). The 6th flew such aircraft at the Curtiss R-4, DeHavilland 4-B, SE-5A, MG-3A, Piper L-4, P-12B and Martin B-10 and B-18 aircraft. In 1937, as the mission of the 6th moved toward bombardment, the War Department renamed it the 6th Bombardment Group. They continued to operate in the Canal Zone under the VI Bomber Command of the Sixth Air Force until 31 October 1943, when it inactivated. Five months later, on 19 April 1944, the 6th reactivated at Dalhart Army Airfield, Texas. Equipped first with B-17 aircraft, crews were later trained in B-29 aircraft for deployment to the Pacific Theater. By 28 December 1944 the 6th had deployed to North Field, Tinian, under Twentieth Air Force, from where it entered WWII by flying navigational escort for a major attack force bound for Iwo Jima. The 6th then struck Tokyo and other major Japanese cities and facilities during daylight high-altitude bombing raids, with crippling, non-stop incendiary raids which destroyed lines of communication, supply, and numerous kamikaze bases. On 25 May 1945, the 6th flew a low-altitude night mission through alerted enemy defenses to drop incendiary bombs on Tokyo, for which they received their first Distinguished Unit Citation. In addition to incendiary raids, the 6th also participated in mining operations. By mining harbors in Japan and Korea in July 1945, the group contributed to the blockade of the Japanese Empire earning their second Distinguished Unit Citation. The 6th's final WWII mission came on 14 August 1945, with the dropping of 500-pound general purpose bombs on the Marifu railroad yards at Iwakuni. With the war over, the 6th dropped food and supplies to Allied prisoners of war and took part in show-of-force flights over Japan.
__________________ 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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16-10-2007, 02:22 PM
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You're Top Poster: #1 | List of Czechoslovak personnel List of Czechoslovak pilots, technicians and women in R.A.F. during WWII 35 pages of names etc http://www.military.cz/british/air/war/list_en.htm
__________________ _________________ 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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14-11-2007, 08:29 PM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | 1 Squadron RAAF From: http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_Sec...20War11019.asp1 Squadron RAAF When war broke out on 3 September 1939, 1 Squadron conducted the first patrol of the Second World War, a diverging search off Cape Otway in Victoria. For the early part of 1940, 1 Squadron flew Ansons aircraft as escorts for convoys of troopships and supplies vessels leaving Australia for Europe. On 4 July 1940 the squadron moved to Sembawang in Singapore. Now flying Hudson aircraft, the squadron conducted seaward reconnaissance and patrols until August when the unit moved to Kota Bharu in northeast Malaya. 1 Squadron was the first squadron to see action in the Pacific War. Before the Japanese raids on Pearl Harbor, Japanese convoys were sighted moving south of Indo-Chian. Early on 8 December 1941 seven Hudsons were despatched under the command of Wing Commander Davis, after reports that another convoy of Japanese warships was shelling beach defences in Malaya in preparation to land troops. By dawn one transport had been destroyed, a second was ablaze, and a third later disappeared after receiving many direct hits. 1 Squadron lost two aircraft and their crews. The rapid advance of Japanese forces along the Malaya peninsula forced 1 Squadron to move to Palembang in Sumatra, after taking over 8 Squadron’s Singapore-based aircraft. From the new base 1 Squadron harassed Japanese bases, conducted reconnaissance, and attacked Japanese convoys. A day before the fall of Singapore, Japanese paratroops landed at Palembang. After two days of fighting the squadron was, once again, forced to relocate. From a new base in Semplak in Java, the squadron began attacking shipping and oilfields. On 6 March, after weeks of heavy fighting, the remaining three Hudsons carrying sick and wounded personnel, were flown to Australia. Only 120 members of 1 Squadron left Java before the island was overrun by the Japanese. Following the capitulation, 180 other members, including Davis, became prisoners of war. The squadron was subsequently disbanded and did not reform until 1 December 1943 at Menangle, New South Wales. By late-March 1944, operations were being flown against enemy-held islands across the north. Squadron Leader Campbell led the first strike – a night attack on Lautem on 4 April with three Beauforts. 1 Squadron also participated in combined bombing raids on Penfoei, Cape Chater, Koepang, Timor, and Aru Island. Operations in concert with other units continued for the remainder of 1944, in addition to regular reconnaissance and night searching operations using Air-to-Surface Vessel radar. On 15 January 1945 1 Squadron was re-equipped with the Mosquito aircraft. In May the main party was deployed to Moratai and then Labuan to await the arrival of the aircraft in July. 1 Squadron flew 65 sorties between 8 August and the Japanese surrender on 15 August. The squadron returned to Narromine, New South Wales, in December 1945 before being disbanded on 7 August the following year. Of the 88 members of 1 Squadron killed during hostilities, many died as prisoners of war. Read more at the link.
__________________ 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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18-11-2007, 09:27 PM
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