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20-09-2007, 06:42 PM
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| Kneel before Mod   Join Date: Sep 2007
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You're Top Poster: #4   | HMS Whimbrel For several years a quiet campaign has been ongoing in Liverpool to bring home the last surviving veteran ship of the Atlantic campaign. HMS Whimbrel, a Black Swan class Sloop, was also present at the surrender of the Japanese in Tokyo Bay. HMS Whimbrel
__________________ "Time is a great storyteller" If my calculations are correct SLINKY + ESCALATOR = EVERLASTING FUN God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, "Ah!" - Joseph Campbell |
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20-09-2007, 11:25 PM
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| Άρης  Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Terra something or other
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You're Top Poster: #1  | Amazing that she's survived exactly the same as she was during the war. Hope the project succeeds.
__________________ _________________  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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21-09-2007, 07:55 AM
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| Kneel before Mod Join Date: Sep 2007
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You're Top Poster: #4 | Well they only need £2million to bring her back, and as it was on the regional news then there is a good chance of this. i think the plan is to sail her back by the end of next year. Then the real fund raising will begin.
__________________ "Time is a great storyteller" If my calculations are correct SLINKY + ESCALATOR = EVERLASTING FUN God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, "Ah!" - Joseph Campbell |
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23-09-2007, 12:36 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Outer reaches, Melbourne, Victoria
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You're Top Poster: #2  | Good to see the Egyptians are open to the idea.
__________________ 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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