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Forum: Military Aviation
15th Nov 2018, 10:59
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,855,313
Posted By Warmtoast

I wish you luck. Apart from St Omer and Senlis...

I wish you luck. Apart from St Omer and Senlis the others are totally unknown to me - I suspect some are no more than fields in farmland!

WT
Forum: Military Aviation
11th Nov 2018, 15:56
Replies: 12,908
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Posted By Warmtoast

Sandisondaughter Air Britain's book 'The...

Sandisondaughter

Air Britain's book 'The Squadrons of the Royal Air Force' contains some details of 15 Sqn

Their bases as below.
...
Forum: Military Aviation
7th Nov 2018, 14:54
Replies: 12,908
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Posted By Warmtoast

Gannet Fan Given that HMS Exeter was sunk in...

Gannet Fan

Given that HMS Exeter was sunk in the Java Sea between Java and Borneo the location is nearer the Pacific than Burma, which may be an explanation as to why he had the Pacific Star. Map...
Forum: Military Aviation
7th Nov 2018, 11:25
Replies: 12,908
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Posted By Warmtoast

Palm leaves. In Gan in the Maldives they called...

Palm leaves. In Gan in the Maldives they called it 'Kadjan' seen here being woven. Principle is the same in Ceylon (Sri Lanka). See coconut palm trees off the end of Katuayake's (Negombo) runway in...
Forum: Military Aviation
6th Nov 2018, 08:56
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,855,313
Posted By Warmtoast

Re the WRNS photo in my post above, here they are...

Re the WRNS photo in my post above, here they are in their billet c/w Mossie nets over their beds.
Lady on the right appears to be checking her iPhone, but surely not - way back in 1944!
...
Forum: Military Aviation
5th Nov 2018, 10:33
Replies: 12,908
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Posted By Warmtoast

They were also very smart and quite good looking...

They were also very smart and quite good looking too as this photo of them lined up for inspection by Admiral Somerville (in Colombo?) in WW2 shows. (IWM Photo)
...
Forum: Military Aviation
4th Nov 2018, 21:15
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,855,313
Posted By Warmtoast

Andrew (your #12470) 4 PDC is a...

Andrew (your #12470)



4 PDC is a Personnel Despatch Centre

I've checked my Service Record and when I was posted to S. Rhodesia in 1951 immediately before departure I attended 5 PDC at...
Forum: Military Aviation
28th Oct 2018, 12:41
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Posted By Warmtoast

When I was browsing the paper to report the...

When I was browsing the paper to report the drifting balloon (#12430 above), another item on the same page caught my eye concerning a crash at RAF Driffield the same day - see below and bottom the...
Forum: Military Aviation
28th Oct 2018, 12:20
Replies: 12,908
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Posted By Warmtoast

Daks were used for dropping stores to agents in...

Daks were used for dropping stores to agents in Burma - see my post with photos here:
https://www.pprune.org/aviation-history-nostalgia/511484-raf-dakota-burma-wwii.html#post7773459
Forum: Military Aviation
26th Oct 2018, 15:22
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,855,313
Posted By Warmtoast

Danny This one happened on 30th...

Danny



This one happened on 30th November 1951 - not sure if it's the one you remember.
...
Forum: Military Aviation
8th Oct 2018, 09:46
Replies: 12,908
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Posted By Warmtoast

Chugalug2 Probably national servicemen...

Chugalug2



Probably national servicemen anxious to get home at the end of their service, or perhaps youthful high spirts fuelled by seasonal drink - not tolerated nowadays of course!
Forum: Military Aviation
6th Oct 2018, 19:02
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,855,313
Posted By Warmtoast

It was drunken revelry at Seletar - Christmas...

It was drunken revelry at Seletar - Christmas 1957. ISTR we were a 'bolshie' lot in those days and from the raised arm gestures the group having overturned the Harvard instructional airframe were...
Forum: Military Aviation
6th Oct 2018, 15:12
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,855,313
Posted By Warmtoast

Re. Accommodation In my #12331 of 26th Sept I...

Re. Accommodation
In my #12331 of 26th Sept I showed a couple of my photos of the airmen's billet in S. Rhodesia which I occupied during my first overseas tour (1951 - 1953).
In 1956 I was posted...
Forum: Military Aviation
27th Sep 2018, 22:52
Replies: 12,908
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Posted By Warmtoast

Chugalug2 & Franek - Re Polish Codebreakers ...

Chugalug2 & Franek - Re Polish Codebreakers

A long but informative Wiki article here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biuro_Szyfr%C3%B3w



FWIW Boxmoor is near Hemel Hempstead in...
Forum: Military Aviation
26th Sep 2018, 15:49
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,855,313
Posted By Warmtoast

She was good-looking and as to using a lot of...

She was good-looking and as to using a lot of hair colouring I don't think so. I'm the ugly one!

WT...
Forum: Military Aviation
26th Sep 2018, 09:54
Replies: 12,908
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Posted By Warmtoast

My pit was not so patriotic. Very small photo of...

My pit was not so patriotic. Very small photo of my girlfriend on the locker door. Pinups were tolerated, but were suitably decorous as they were in those days - so nothing too exciting!
...
Forum: Military Aviation
26th Sep 2018, 09:25
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,855,313
Posted By Warmtoast

Only 26 RAF personnel were awarded the VC in WW2...

Only 26 RAF personnel were awarded the VC in WW2 as commemorated in the roll of honour in St Clement Danes - see here:
...
Forum: Military Aviation
26th Sep 2018, 09:12
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,855,313
Posted By Warmtoast

Re Accommodation My first posting was to RAF...

Re Accommodation

My first posting was to RAF Thornhill (5 FTS) S. Rhodesia 1951 - 1953.

Airmen's Billets were named after RAF VC's i.e. Ward, Reid etc. Photo 1 shows outside and Photo 2 inside...
Forum: Military Aviation
25th Sep 2018, 21:12
Replies: 12,908
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Posted By Warmtoast

Details of how to access Service Records can be...

Details of how to access Service Records can be found here:
https://www.gov.uk/get-copy-military-service-records/apply-for-someone-elses-records
Forum: Military Aviation
10th Sep 2018, 10:37
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,855,313
Posted By Warmtoast

Chugalug2 Fascinating - thank you. F H...

Chugalug2

Fascinating - thank you.

F H Hinsley in the official history of British Intelligence in the Second World War mentions the Polish contribution to early codebreaking as below:
Forum: Military Aviation
23rd May 2018, 20:35
Replies: 12,908
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Posted By Warmtoast

Re Group Captain Caryl Gordon's obituary above....

Re Group Captain Caryl Gordon's obituary above. This press cutting is relevant.
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r231/thawes/DukeofEdinburghSolo1953.jpg
Forum: Military Aviation
6th May 2018, 17:20
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,855,313
Posted By Warmtoast

Re Danny's piece about Reg Levy above. Reg's...

Re Danny's piece about Reg Levy above.
Reg's obituary together with a photograph of the man himself appeared in the Guardian here:...
Forum: Military Aviation
10th Apr 2018, 22:08
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,855,313
Posted By Warmtoast

Blacksheep Thanks for the information she was...

Blacksheep
Thanks for the information
she was actually converted back to a Union Castle line passenger liner and saw service as the Warwick Castle.
A new Pretoria Castle was built in 1947, a...
Forum: Military Aviation
9th Apr 2018, 14:27
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,855,313
Posted By Warmtoast

What a small world. On the way home in August...

What a small world. On the way home in August 1953 in the Arundel Castle we passed the Winchester Castle at sea on it's way out to Cape Town as seen here - another photo from my album.
...
Forum: Military Aviation
9th Apr 2018, 09:08
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,855,313
Posted By Warmtoast

Cape Town ..brings back memories of...

Cape Town


..brings back memories of August 1953 when a very young Warmtoast returned home from 5 FTS (RAF Thornhill, S. Rhodesia) via Cape Town and the Union Castle RMS 'Arundel Castle' as seen...
Forum: Military Aviation
10th Mar 2018, 15:28
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,855,313
Posted By Warmtoast

Tim00 MPN11 has pointed out what RATG...

Tim00



MPN11 has pointed out what RATG is in his #11876. As regards "26 Elementary Flg Trg Sch" (26 EFTS) this was located at Guinea Fowl not far from Thornhill, Gwelo (Gweru), in the...
Forum: Military Aviation
23rd Feb 2018, 15:49
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,855,313
Posted By Warmtoast

Fareastdriver Not quite the same, but...

Fareastdriver

Not quite the same, but photographed by me whilst camping alongside the River Mosel in 1973 - it seemed to be common practice for these large barges to have the skipper's car on...
Forum: Military Aviation
17th Dec 2017, 13:55
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,855,313
Posted By Warmtoast

Danny You don't need to email just point...

Danny

You don't need to email just point your browser here:
Special Interest Books | Gift Books | Unusual Books | Museum Selection (http://www.museumselection.co.uk/books-deptbooks_pg1/)

...
Forum: Military Aviation
15th Dec 2017, 22:19
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,855,313
Posted By Warmtoast

Pilot's Notes - Sptfire Hurricane and Lancaster

Periodically I receive a copy of 'Museum Selection's' latest brochure.
The latest one intriguingly includes an advert for books including this one for facsimiles of the Pilot's Notes for the...
Forum: Military Aviation
27th Oct 2017, 22:53
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,855,313
Posted By Warmtoast

davidsa I'm sure members of this Forum...

davidsa


I'm sure members of this Forum would be delighted, as would I, so please scan and post here.

Meanwhile some more Sunderland related photos from my album dated 1957 when I was...
Forum: Military Aviation
26th Oct 2017, 22:58
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,855,313
Posted By Warmtoast

Ian BB "mea culpa" - point taken. ...

Ian BB

"mea culpa" - point taken.

WT
Forum: Military Aviation
26th Oct 2017, 20:51
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,855,313
Posted By Warmtoast

harrym Not sure about spanners strapped to...

harrym

Not sure about spanners strapped to wrists, but my photo below taken in 1957 as the 205/209 Sqn Sunderland I was on was refuelled at Glugor (Penang) en-route from Seletar to China Bay (Sri...
Forum: Military Aviation
24th Oct 2017, 20:57
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,855,313
Posted By Warmtoast

harrym (your Beverley Memories) Photographed...

harrym (your Beverley Memories)

Photographed about the time you were flying Beverleys some shots from my album.

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r231/thawes/GAN/Beverley1.jpg

...
Forum: Military Aviation
30th Sep 2017, 10:30
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,855,313
Posted By Warmtoast

MPN11 ..was this you then? - joking WT! ...

MPN11


..was this you then? - joking WT!


http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r231/thawes/RAF%20Thornhill/TigerMothOops_zpsf3c9f8b6.jpg
Forum: Military Aviation
24th Sep 2017, 23:17
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,855,313
Posted By Warmtoast

Danny As someone who something to do with...

Danny

As someone who something to do with Harvards at 5 FTS (RAF Thornhill, S. Rhodesia) in the early 1950's ISTR that this turned out to be an urban myth. The diameter of the prop (8ft?) x the...
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