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27-09-2007, 03:21 AM
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__________________ 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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27-09-2007, 03:24 AM
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27-09-2007, 03:27 AM
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| It's cool, K, I'm okay with them. Following up the Hurri links at the mo. Bloody 6 Sqn site is peeing me off but am perservering! Host Unreachable etc and then it works...and then it doesn't...
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27-09-2007, 03:36 AM
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| Alexander died in Babylon at Nebuchadnezzar 11 summer palace which was unearthed / discovered before the war in the 1930's. All I can find is that he did use the summer palace of the Persian Kings which would be the above. From what I can find it was about 60miles from present day Baghdad on the East side of the Euphrates. Although Alexander was a busy boy he didn't live long enough after becoming King to "enjoy" too many summers. Could your man have been stationed in Iraq?
__________________ 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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27-09-2007, 03:41 AM
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| If it's Iraq then finding info could be tricky. However, Shore's "Dust Clouds in the Middle East - the air war for East Africa, Iraq, Syria, Iran and Madagascar" doesn't mention him. As for Wellington/Liberator squadrons - was that in Italy? If so, then he would most likely have been with 205 Group - 37, 70, 40, 104, 31, 178, 614, 142 & 150 Squadrons.
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27-09-2007, 03:53 AM
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| Geoff, yeah I was thinking along those lines in respect of Alexander's empire as well. However, I did find reference to his conquests of the Carthaginians. K, I was of the belief that he flew Wimpys out of Africa but that was my assumption.
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27-09-2007, 04:12 AM
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| Can count 213 Sqn out as the Hurri sqn.
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27-09-2007, 04:46 AM
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| This looks interesting. Cyrene (Now Shahhat) was the ancient capital of Cyrenaica in Libya and pretty much fits in with the timeline of USAAF involvement. The were mosaic finds there in the ruins from the 1930's. Cyrene Susah Libya.jpg http://www.galenfrysinger.com/cyrene_libya.htm
__________________ 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 Last edited by spidge; 27-09-2007 at 04:52 AM.. | ||||||||||||||
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27-09-2007, 05:52 AM
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| 376th BG with Libs could be a contender for the USAAF unit. They were based at Gambut Main Landing Ground #139, Solluch and Bonina No.2.
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27-09-2007, 06:23 AM
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| http://www.warwingsart.com/12thAirForce/airforcetable.html 12th Air Force Organization, September, 1943 Stations: Tunisia (August 1943), Italy (December 1943) Commander: Lt. Gen. Carl Spaatz Northwest African Strategic Air Force Commander: Maj. Gen. James Doolittle 5th Bomb Wing 47th Bomb Wing 42nd Bomb Wing 97th BG (B-17) 310th BG (B-25) 17th BG (B-26) 301st BG (B-17) 321st BG (B-25) 319th BG (B-26) 2nd BG (B-17) 82nd FG (P-38) 320th BG (B-26) 99th BG (B-17) 325th FG (P-40) *98th BG (B-24) 1st FG (P-38) *376th BG (B-24) 14th FG (P-38)
__________________ 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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