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Forum: Military Aviation
3rd Feb 2010, 00:26
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,841,685
Posted By Wiley

Back on pp 66-69 (posts 1301 to 1366) I posted...

Back on pp 66-69 (posts 1301 to 1366) I posted the story of Sqn Ldr Peter Jensen, a WOP/AG on Sunderlands with 461 Squadron RAAF. One of the points that he raised in his narrative, the way Coastal...
Forum: Military Aviation
16th Jan 2010, 22:16
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,841,685
Posted By Wiley

Cliff, I have a friend who is in the German...

Cliff, I have a friend who is in the German diplomatic service. He's attempting to put me in touch with some German ex-service organisations, so hopefully, we might get to hear from one or two...
Forum: Military Aviation
9th Dec 2009, 21:05
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,841,685
Posted By Wiley

WOP/AG Peter Jensen. (final) Instalment 18

Alness was a large, busy station and (naturally) conditions were rough compared with an operational squadron. I was billeted in a fibro building called ‘the Annex’. There was a bathroom, but with...
Forum: Military Aviation
8th Dec 2009, 19:49
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,841,685
Posted By Wiley

WOP/AG Peter Jensen. Instalment 17

It was sad experience to leave the squadron which had been my home for only 20 months, but which had delivered such experiences as I would never have thought possible, to still be alive when so many...
Forum: Military Aviation
7th Dec 2009, 23:00
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,841,685
Posted By Wiley

pzu, the John Cruickshank in Peter's story was a...

pzu, the John Cruickshank in Peter's story was a Catalina pilot, as was the John Cruickshank VC you refer to ( John Cruickshank - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia...
Forum: Military Aviation
7th Dec 2009, 21:16
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,841,685
Posted By Wiley

WOP/AG Peter Jensen. Instalment 16

On the 29th December, we were on patrol and sighted a lot of wreckage as a result of the naval battle, including a lifeboat containing 35 German survivors. We took a photograph, which was printed in...
Forum: Military Aviation
6th Dec 2009, 20:08
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,841,685
Posted By Wiley

WOP/AG Peter Jensen. Instalment 15

Over the next couple of weeks, the memory of the 465 signal gradually faded from squadron memory. As winter approached, the cold, wild weather made flying difficult, and even when moored, the flying...
Forum: Military Aviation
5th Dec 2009, 21:00
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,841,685
Posted By Wiley

WOP/AG Peter Jensen. Instalment 14

For his efforts, Dudley received a DFC for sinking the sub. and a DSO for the combat with the Ju88’s. Pierre Bamber and Bubbles Pearce were both awarded the DFM.

Dudley had now completed his tour...
Forum: Military Aviation
4th Dec 2009, 21:20
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,841,685
Posted By Wiley

WOP/AG Peter Jensen. Instalment 14 Post...

WOP/AG Peter Jensen. Instalment 14

Post script to the sinking of U 461 by U/461

On Tuesday 3rd June, 1986, my wife Rosemary, Silvia and Harry McIver and I arrived in Munich to meet Wolf...
Forum: Military Aviation
3rd Dec 2009, 20:23
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,841,685
Posted By Wiley

WOP/AG Peter Jensen. Instalment 13

We wondered what the ‘help’ was. We knew that Captain Walker's sloops were about 100 miles from us when we were shot down. Say they had contacted them at 5 a.m., assuming a speed of 20 knots, they...
Forum: Military Aviation
2nd Dec 2009, 23:18
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,841,685
Posted By Wiley

Peter Jensen, instalment 12

We organised ourselves as best as eleven men can in a six man dinghy. We sat alternately on the edge and inside the ring with our legs and feet bunched up in the middle, trying to keep Pierre's poor...
Forum: Military Aviation
30th Nov 2009, 21:01
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,841,685
Posted By Wiley

WOP/AG Peter Jensen. Instalment 11

All this time the five remaining JU88's had been circling and watching. They had scattered a few cannon shells in the water around us just as we ditched, but had then pulled off and circled. (We...
Forum: Military Aviation
30th Nov 2009, 02:25
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,841,685
Posted By Wiley

WOP/AG Peter Jensen. Instalment 10

I lost all track of time. Dudley was throwing the aircraft around like a Spitfire. My ammunition bins hadn’t been designed for such treatment. They broke away from their mountings and the tops burst...
Forum: Military Aviation
29th Nov 2009, 00:01
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,841,685
Posted By Wiley

WOP/AG Peter Jensen. Instalment 9

During the next month, we did only one operation, on 26th August, lasting 12 hours 50 minutes, then, on 3rd September, another op. on another crew’s aircraft that had just come out of the hangar...
Forum: Military Aviation
28th Nov 2009, 01:55
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,841,685
Posted By Wiley

WOP/AG Peter Jensen. Instalment 8

Post script to the sinking of U 461 by U/461
On Tuesday 3rd June, 1986, my wife Rosemary, Silvia Marrows and Harry McIver and I arrived in Munich to meet Wolf Stiebler, the captain of U461.

On...
Forum: Military Aviation
25th Nov 2009, 05:06
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,841,685
Posted By Wiley

WOP/AG Peter Jensen. Instalment 7

30th July 1943
An early morning takeoff on a T3 patrol - that is, pick up the Scillies, then in a straight line to the Spanish coast south of Cape Finisterre, a coast crawl to Finisterre then...
Forum: Military Aviation
23rd Nov 2009, 21:13
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,841,685
Posted By Wiley

WOP/AG Peter Jensen. Instalment 6

I spent three weeks in Ely Hospital. My main memory of that is being dosed up on the new drug – sulphanilamide. When they sewed up my leg, they left a drain pipe hanging out of it. It would start to...
Forum: Military Aviation
23rd Nov 2009, 04:49
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,841,685
Posted By Wiley

WOP/AG Peter Jensen. Instalment 5

On August 12 1942, the squadron had its first loss and of all people, it was the commanding officer, Halliday. The night before, we were on an op. and the WOP picked up an SOS. This was received by...
Forum: Military Aviation
21st Nov 2009, 20:40
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,841,685
Posted By Wiley

WOP/AG Peter Jensen. Instalment 4

Shortly after Christmas, I had a week’s leave and spent a couple of days in Paisley (near Glasgow) with relatives of people who lived near us in Gladesville. The only event of interest during this...
Forum: Military Aviation
21st Nov 2009, 11:43
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,841,685
Posted By Wiley

WOP/AG Peter Jensen. Instalment 3

From the Wireless School, we went to Gunnery School at a small town on the shores of Lake Winnipeg called Portage La Prairie. This was great fun, flying in Fairey Battles shooting at drogues towed by...
Forum: Military Aviation
21st Nov 2009, 05:02
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,841,685
Posted By Wiley

WOP/AG Peter Jensen. Instalment 2

No 2 Embarkation Depot was next door to No 2 ITD, with similar buildings. Here we were kitted out in flying gear, winter uniform and greatcoat and lots of little items like a bible, ‘housewife’...
Forum: Military Aviation
20th Nov 2009, 23:26
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,841,685
Posted By Wiley

Peter Jensen's story. During 1938, an...

Peter Jensen's story.

During 1938, an advertisement appeared in the Australian newspapers offering applicants a chance to join the RAF on short term commissions. I applied, and so did thousands of...
Forum: Military Aviation
14th Oct 2009, 04:32
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,841,685
Posted By Wiley

Last weekend, I had an interesting couple of...

Last weekend, I had an interesting couple of hours with my wife’s uncle, Peter Jensen, who’d been a WOP/Gunner on Sunderlands with the RAAF’s 461 Squadron based in the UK during WW2. (461 Squadron,...
Forum: Military Aviation
12th Sep 2009, 01:30
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,841,685
Posted By Wiley

... especially operating *** Seafires from a...

... especially operating *** Seafires from a carrier! Some first hand accounts of landing on with that oh so narrow undercarriage should make for some interesting reading for all of us David.
...
Forum: Military Aviation
13th Aug 2009, 23:14
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,841,685
Posted By Wiley

Cliff, are you able to give us any information on...

Cliff, are you able to give us any information on the (possibly mythical?) horror camp in Scotland where aircrew accused of LMF were sent?

I think John Beede mentioned it in his excellent, if very...
Forum: Military Aviation
31st Jul 2009, 14:54
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,841,685
Posted By Wiley

Reagle, how could I refuse? You wish is my...

Reagle, how could I refuse? You wish is my command etc... From long ago written notes that no publisher thought anyone would ever be interested in.
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In 1967, there were still a...
Forum: Military Aviation
31st Jul 2009, 11:28
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,841,685
Posted By Wiley

Goosequill, you're right about the tail wheel...

Goosequill, you're right about the tail wheel steering on the Mustang and (I understand, only some) Havards and your description of unlocking it is accurate. To re-lock it, the control column was...
Forum: Military Aviation
13th Jun 2009, 10:15
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,841,685
Posted By Wiley

Padhist, CO's rants to errant aircrew seem to be...

Padhist, CO's rants to errant aircrew seem to be a cosntant in every war. Sorry if some might consider this thread drift, but below is virtually the same story - but from another (almost) war.
Forum: Military Aviation
27th May 2009, 12:37
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,841,685
Posted By Wiley

Gawd Cliff, that Airman's Pay Book... It...

Gawd Cliff, that Airman's Pay Book...

It was unchanged in my days in blue, 20+ years after yours. God only knows how many of them I signed over the years on (as the Airmen so quaintly put it)...
Forum: Military Aviation
15th Apr 2009, 11:38
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,841,685
Posted By Wiley

I believe Schiller is correct. The holes in the...

I believe Schiller is correct. The holes in the harness were quite large, as was the central pin (and, I'd assume, with thick gauntlets on, was not particularly easy to undo, particularly in 'less...
Forum: Military Aviation
28th Mar 2009, 06:53
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,841,685
Posted By Wiley

TOTAL tread drift, but on the subject of...

TOTAL tread drift, but on the subject of Subcontinetal people with and without a sense of humour, I see comedian David Janson has been forced to apologise for making an off the cuff joke on the Beeb...
Forum: Military Aviation
18th Mar 2009, 07:05
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,841,685
Posted By Wiley

A Lanc pilot wearing his parachute whilst in the...

A Lanc pilot wearing his parachute whilst in the driver's seat? Cliff or Regle, was it the norm for the pilot to wear his bum pack parachute whilst in the driver's seat? I thought I'd read somewhere...
Forum: Military Aviation
31st Jan 2009, 17:23
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,841,685
Posted By Wiley

Cliff, I hope this doesn't appear a morbid...

Cliff, I hope this doesn't appear a morbid question, but did you ever tally up how many of your course made it through to VE (or VJ) Day?

You'll probably have read Don Charlwood's excellent "No...
Forum: Military Aviation
14th Sep 2008, 17:07
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,841,685
Posted By Wiley

Almost totally off the subject of the thread,...

Almost totally off the subject of the thread, (keep 'em coming, please Cliff), but touching vaguely on the Brylcreem subject: the Irish (or was it the Brits?) made an excellent WW2 movie ten years...
Forum: Military Aviation
16th Jul 2008, 09:11
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,841,685
Posted By Wiley

Found mine buried deep in a drawer only a month...

Found mine buried deep in a drawer only a month or so ago. Needles a bit rusty where gthey go through the cotton, but everything still there. I think it would have to be the only piece of original...
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