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06-06-2008, 07:41 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3   | There were 26 Australians killed whilst flying with 76 squadron.
__________________ 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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12-06-2008, 11:33 AM
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You're Top Poster: #1  | Linked in with post #115 above: Tempsford - soe Hudson FK790 Quote:
__________________ _________________  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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12-06-2008, 09:59 PM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | The story comes full circle but then raises more questions!
__________________ 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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12-06-2008, 11:46 PM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | 156 Sqn
__________________ 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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13-06-2008, 04:25 AM
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You're Top Poster: #14  | Here's links to two more squadrons; 97 Squadron Association - Online Archive for World War II 460 Squadron RAAF
__________________ "No flaps, or rudder control left in her skipper!!" "All right, bail out you chaps... we've all had it..." "We're sure as hell not leaving you here sir!!" "You sure? If you are, I hope to god we can make it back on three engines..." "I'm pretty damn sure Sugar won't let us down now skip!" |
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20-06-2008, 03:54 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | 77 squadron photo in Darwin 1942 Quote:
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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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20-06-2008, 04:10 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | The 49th Fighter Group USAAF 8th fighter squadron The 49th Fighter Group USAAF 8th fighter squadron. Good story and lucky they ever got there. 49th Fighter Group, formerly known as 49th Pursuit Group Took this photo at Adelaide River Cemetery NT. DSCF0836.JPG
__________________ 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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