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21-10-2007, 10:51 AM
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| Άρης  Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Terra something or other
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You're Top Poster: #1   | David, The Footprints On The Sands Of Time has your fathers POW number as 605 (which the author notes is curious without giving a reason why).
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21-10-2007, 12:32 PM
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You're Top Poster: #7 | Quote:
My understanding is that the author of Footprints (Oliver Clutton-Brock) was under the impression that that number was also assigned to another. The German method of assigning numbers to P.O.W.'s has always baffled me, there seems to be no rhyme or reason to it. Last edited by David Layne; 21-10-2007 at 01:07 PM.. | |
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27-11-2007, 12:39 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2  | I second that! Yes please, Digger!
__________________ 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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27-11-2007, 05:51 AM
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27-11-2007, 07:14 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | Quite a history for HMS Campbell according to a quick google. Channel Dash, Russian convoys and returning to port with stern mostly submerged from torpedo hit.
__________________ 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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27-11-2007, 08:03 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | Some good photos here of HMS Campbell: HMS CAMPBELL Photos here of SS Dominion Monarch. Dominion Monarch 1938 Monab1 HMS Nabbington MONAB I page 1
__________________ 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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27-11-2007, 09:28 AM
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You're Top Poster: #27 | Quote:
An Admiralty type came for a ship's inspection and dad being an Oerlikon gunner had loaded his gun with all tracer so he could see where his shots were going. When the inspecting officer saw this he tore strips off dad because the official load was 1 tracer per 5 rounds as tracer wore the barrels out quicker, so dad and his loader had to unload all the mags from his ready use locker and reload as prescribed by officialdom. His Lt gave him a wink as they departed and once the inspector had left dad's Lt came back and told him to carry on as he had been before being told off, so dad and his loader then went back to full tracer loads, which made more sense especially when under air attack during the day. Rod | |
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27-11-2007, 09:35 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | It really is good that this info is readily available on the net.
__________________ 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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