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11-10-2007, 12:04 AM
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| Άρης  Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Terra something or other
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You're Top Poster: #1   | Dambusters Docudrama Am rather ambivelent about this programme but I'll let people decide for themselves. But I must say that their constant insistance on calling it Six Seventeen Squadron really got on my ........... http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0iYyhlp5v4 http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=tsRvdJ-ZwRw http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=GaKBENAyoV0 http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ExO1LE80lvs http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=C60LQ7GZfzc http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XFJDXM7YasA The biggest saving grace are the interviews.
__________________ _________________  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. Last edited by Kyt; 11-10-2007 at 12:11 AM. |
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11-10-2007, 12:14 AM
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| Super Moderator   Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Melbourne Australia
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EDDINBURRAGH - Drove me absolutely crazy!
__________________ 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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11-10-2007, 12:21 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | Crazy Yanks. "Six Seventeer" is an Americanism. I slipped up once with David, "my" Lanc gunner, and sai "Five Fourteen". His response was "Always call it 5 1 4, it's the RAF!" My biggest bug in this area is when a sqn gets called the 617th Sqn! Having said that, there's some fascinating USAAF stuff out there (must start a thread along those lines) and I'm sure we get their terminology wrong!
__________________ 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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11-10-2007, 12:25 AM
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| Άρης Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Terra something or other
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You're Top Poster: #1 | Yes, I've been meaning to start a similar squadron histories thread for the USAAF. There are some excellent sites out there but I am very very weak on the workings, structures etc of the squadrons, groups, so on. EDIT: Andy's beaten me to it. 
__________________ _________________ 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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11-10-2007, 12:30 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | I like so totally rock! Only kidding. You're right though Kyt on the excellent website front. In many cases the standard is higher than the RAF-based sites but, at times, can also be a bit more brash. Even so, there's some totally excellent material out there. I hope this doesn't lead to buying USAAF books as well! I've done it in the past and have a nice little collection but...
__________________ 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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