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08-10-2007, 02:00 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2   | The loss of HMAS Armidale and what should have been the RAN's first VC http://ahoy.tk-jk.net/macslog/TheDea...SArmidale.html Moving stuff. As well as HMAS Sheehan, our new patrol boats are the Armidale class.
__________________ 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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08-10-2007, 02:24 AM
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Bravery under enemy fire, Laying down your life for others, most definitely in a war zone?????????????? We know it was deserved and in the end, that is all that matters. Maybe someone thought that a rating should not be the first recipient?
__________________ 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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08-10-2007, 02:30 AM
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You're Top Poster: #1  | Such a shame - and yet, the decisions on how VCs are awarded are full of inconsistencies.
__________________ _________________  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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08-10-2007, 02:30 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | I wonder if anyone has written a book on servicemen/women who "should" have won a VC? There'd be a lot of conjecture for sure!
__________________ 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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08-10-2007, 02:36 AM
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Declared War Zone etc.
__________________ 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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08-10-2007, 02:36 AM
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You're Top Poster: #1 | There's a book on Canadians and how the awards system wasn't consistant with them: Valour Reconsidered: Inquiries into the Victoria Cross and Other Awards for Extreme Bravery http://www.rbstudiobooks.com/Valour.pdf
__________________ _________________ 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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08-10-2007, 02:44 AM
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242 Squadron by Hugh A. Halliday (Paperback - Sep 30, 1982) 2 Used & new from $127.50
__________________ 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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08-10-2007, 02:53 AM
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You're Top Poster: #1 | Yes, and he occassionally contributes on rafcommands and TOCH. That price is taking the pee - I can find copies from £10 on bookfinder.com But then again, Andy found a copy of a book by Terence o'Brien for $9000+ (I can't find the listing on Amazon now). Normally, the book is available for 0.2% of that price
__________________ _________________ 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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08-10-2007, 02:54 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | Dammit, now Geoff's doing it! One for the list but not through Amazon! Link no worky now, must have been a typo?
__________________ 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; 08-10-2007 at 02:59 AM. |
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08-10-2007, 02:58 AM
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You're Top Poster: #1 | Or someone was daft enough to buy 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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