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02-04-2008, 10:19 PM
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__________________ WWW.Warfaretoday.com HSL130 picking up the crew of a downed Halifax  Et tantis pretis constitutis plures Macropodidas in hae caupona minime videbis | |||||||||||||||
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02-04-2008, 10:21 PM
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 | It is interesting. So that would an individual aircraft's ground and air crew. There's probably another three times as many base personnel providing for all the other needs.
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02-04-2008, 11:30 PM
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 | They were all very important however not very often acknowledged as such.
__________________ 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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02-04-2008, 11:33 PM
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I notice there is a woman in the front row holding something that looks like an esky. What would have her job been and what is she holding John  | |||||||||||||||
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02-04-2008, 11:40 PM
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| Looks like some sort of hamper. Tea and sandwiches for the crew?
__________________ 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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03-04-2008, 06:54 PM
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 | Probably a parachute packer in this case, but many women held the position of Met Officer, Information officer and debriefing officer.
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03-04-2008, 11:41 PM
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| Here's what I came up with elsewhere. THE LANCASTER Petrol bowser and crew - Mobile workshop and crew Corporal mechanic, four aircraftmen (mechanics), engineer officer, fitter (armourer), three armourers, radio mechanic, two instrument repairers, three bomb handlers, fitter. Bomb train with W.A.A.F. driver and bombing up crew. Flight maintenance crew: N.C.O. fitter, five mechanics, electrical mechanic, instrument repairer, two radio mechanics. Flying control officer, W.A.A.F. parachute packer, met. officer, pilot, navigator, air bomber, flight engineer, wireless op/air gunner, two air gunners. The above taken from Lancaster - The Story Of A Famous Bomber, by Bruce Robertson. | ||||||||||||||
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04-04-2008, 07:00 AM
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| It looks like parachute packer was most popular answer. When you look at the list David supplied per Lancaster, no wonder the air force had a lot of personel. John | ||||||||||||||
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