The Big Anniversary
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Eee Lad, as good a rendition as I've ever heard ( and I've played it a few times mesself). Thanks for sharing that, you are obviously a man of discernment and fine taste.
Smudge
Eee Lad, as good a rendition as I've ever heard ( and I've played it a few times mesself). Thanks for sharing that, you are obviously a man of discernment and fine taste.
Smudge
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Squadron Leader Les Munro CNZM, DSO, QSO, DFC, JP, aged 94, the last surviving pilot of Op Chastise, visited Air Command in High Wycombe today. Les flew in yesterday from his home in New Zealand for a busy week of 70th anniversary commemorations.
He certainly looks fit for his 95 years ... and I bet he could still handle a Lanc
The staggering thing for me, is that these men are NOT heroes at all.
To themselves.
They think themselves ordinary.
I'm just glad that ordinary people like me know best!
As SASless would say, 'Hand salute Les!'
CG (in awe)
To themselves.
They think themselves ordinary.
I'm just glad that ordinary people like me know best!
As SASless would say, 'Hand salute Les!'
CG (in awe)
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The staggering thing for me, is that these men are NOT heroes at all.
To themselves.
They think themselves ordinary.
I'm just glad that ordinary people like me know best!
As SASless would say, 'Hand salute Les!'
CG (in awe)
To themselves.
They think themselves ordinary.
I'm just glad that ordinary people like me know best!
As SASless would say, 'Hand salute Les!'
CG (in awe)
Civilians (and Govt) see us as veterans - we see our selves as ex-RAF or ex-Mob...veterans being Second / Korean war
Civilians (and Govt) see us as heroes - we see ourselves as people who did a job
Glad they got his decorations correct...finally
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Good work chaps and chapesses. Had the good fortune to meet and interview George Johnny Johnson last year, last surviving UK Dam buster and totally nice bloke. His stories of low flying Lancasters flattening the blooms near Spalding and having to pull up to go over the HT cables at Sutton Bridge are thing of legend.
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Probably because it isn't up North, a place which Suvverners regard as Unsafe territory. 
There is one very special celebration which will take place at RAF Coningsby on 22nd June - Project Propeller.
There is one very special celebration which will take place at RAF Coningsby on 22nd June - Project Propeller.
Oh do keep up 007...the BBC 'moved up North' last month!
BBC Television Centre says final farewell with Madness and sadness | Media | guardian.co.uk
BBC TV Centre in London is no more...
LJ
BBC Television Centre says final farewell with Madness and sadness | Media | guardian.co.uk
BBC TV Centre in London is no more...
LJ
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From the "Project Propeller" link...
On 12 November, Lancaster aircraft from Coningsby, equipped with the Tallboy
bomb, sank the Tirpitz in Operation Catechism.
Has anyone told IX Sqn whose base was Bardney? (The raid was actually flown from Lossie).
On 12 November, Lancaster aircraft from Coningsby, equipped with the Tallboy
bomb, sank the Tirpitz in Operation Catechism.
BBC TV Centre in London is no more...
BBC to spend £3million a year... renting back Television Centre it's just left | Mail Online
Originally Posted by Wensleydale
From the "Project Propeller" link...
Quote:
On 12 November, Lancaster aircraft from Coningsby, equipped with the Tallboy
bomb, sank the Tirpitz in Operation Catechism.
Has anyone told IX Sqn whose base was Bardney? (The raid was actually flown from Lossie).
Quote:
On 12 November, Lancaster aircraft from Coningsby, equipped with the Tallboy
bomb, sank the Tirpitz in Operation Catechism.
Has anyone told IX Sqn whose base was Bardney? (The raid was actually flown from Lossie).
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Why would anyone want to tell the Sqn that arrived after the Tirpitz
had been terminally hit by 617 Sqn (with their precision bomb sights)?
I see that 'elf and safety strikes for the flyover of Derwent Water:
But thanks to the health-and-safety brigade, few members of the public will be able to be there, too.
Severn Trent Water, which owns the dam, and other public sector ‘stakeholders’ have decreed heavy traffic on country lanes would pose an unacceptable threat to the emergency services. So there can be no official event at the Derwent Dam.
Severn Trent Water, which owns the dam, and other public sector ‘stakeholders’ have decreed heavy traffic on country lanes would pose an unacceptable threat to the emergency services. So there can be no official event at the Derwent Dam.