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15-10-2007, 07:38 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2   | 178 Sqn COs Does anyone know if there is a list of COs of 178 Sqn, particularly during their time in Italy?
__________________ 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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15-10-2007, 11:37 AM
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You're Top Poster: #1  | I don't think I have anything in my books but I'll have a look see.
__________________ _________________  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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15-10-2007, 11:43 AM
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You're Top Poster: #1 | Whilst looking around I found a Roll Of Honour for aircrew lost in the Warsaw Uprising Airlift (including 178 Squadron): http://www.polonia.co.za/WarsawFlights/Roll04.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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15-10-2007, 12:11 PM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | Thanks Kyt. Lot of Yarpies there.
__________________ 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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15-10-2007, 12:16 PM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | Would 160 squadron have some info? "178 Squadron formed January 1943 from a detachment of 160 Squadron and began bombing operations with Liberators. In March the squadron moved to Libya to attack targets in North Africa, Italy and the Balkans and carried out supply-dropping flights to partisans in northern Italy and Poland. In March 1944, 178 Squadron moved to Italy where it remained for the rest of the war. In addition to Liberators, Halifaxes were used between May and September 1943, and on returning to Egypt in November 1945, the squadron converted to Lancasters"
__________________ 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, 04:36 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | Might do Spidgeman, I'll follow me nose. Thanks.
__________________ 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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