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03-10-2007, 12:36 PM
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You're Top Poster: #1   | Torpedoing of the Bismarck
__________________ _________________  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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03-10-2007, 02:25 PM
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__________________ WWW.Warfaretoday.com HSL130 picking up the crew of a downed Halifax  Et tantis pretis constitutis plures Macropodidas in hae caupona minime videbis | |
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03-10-2007, 11:22 PM
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You're Top Poster: #10 | This is certainly the most comprenhensive history of Bismark that I have ever seen! Another site to bookmark in the vain hope of having time to read it properly! I have an account in a book of the ordeal of Lt Jackson and his crew, who spent eight days at sea in a derelict lifeboat before being rescued by an Icelandic boat. It was a rather more horrific experience than the website article implies. If anyone is interested, I can scan and post it. Adrian |
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03-10-2007, 11:28 PM
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You're Top Poster: #1 | It's the best FAA article I've read. Adrian, I'd certainly appreciate a copy when you have time.
__________________ _________________ 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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03-10-2007, 11:33 PM
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You're Top Poster: #2  | Yes please, Adrian! Didn't know Eugene Esmonde (posthumous VC in Channel Dash) was involved in attack on Bismarck.
__________________ 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. Last edited by Antipodean Andy; 03-10-2007 at 11:42 PM. |
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04-10-2007, 12:34 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | Descending below the clouds with his squadron, Esmonde located the cruisers still shadowing, and HMS Norfolk directed the aircraft towards their target some fourteen miles ahead on the starboard bow. Imagine being on the Norfolk and watching the Stringbags go passed knowing what they were heading into. One of the best articles I've read.
__________________ 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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04-10-2007, 11:04 PM
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You're Top Poster: #10 | Here is the story of Jackson and his Swordfish crew - start at paragraph "Atlantic Miracle". From: "Courage in the Skies", by Johnnie Johnson and Laddie Lucas. (extract from one of Lucas' other books). Adrian Edit: when I tested the thumbnails they were illegible, but by clicking on them and zooming in I was able to read them. Last edited by Adrian Roberts; 04-10-2007 at 11:06 PM. |
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04-10-2007, 11:45 PM
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You're Top Poster: #1 | Thanks for posting that Adrian. That's one grim story. Makes one wonder the ordeals suffered by other aircrew, and sailors, lost at sea. Cheers
__________________ _________________ 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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05-10-2007, 12:22 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | That must have been a hard task turning away from the Norwegians but a decision that possibly saved them.
__________________ 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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05-10-2007, 10:55 AM
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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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