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16th Jan 2024, 20:52
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Posted By topgas

Obituary for Flt Lt Rusty Waughman, 101 Sqn...

Obituary for Flt Lt Rusty Waughman, 101 Sqn pilot, in the Times today here (https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/30aa16dc-ee4c-4822-92ac-f1d9cf6a89c4?shareToken=637ae3802a117313c7fdbd81dad4dea4) ,...
21st Dec 2018, 20:12
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Posted By topgas

Obituary for Sqn Ldr John M'Kenzie-Hall in...

Obituary for Sqn Ldr John M'Kenzie-Hall in today's Telegraph here (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2018/12/20/squadron-leader-john-mkenzie-hall-helicopter-pilot-carried-troops/), but behind a...
2nd Nov 2018, 21:03
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Posted By topgas

Malta Story was on TV the other afternoon. Apart...

Malta Story was on TV the other afternoon. Apart from Mk XIV Spitfires used in ground shots, apparently the only ones they could find, they used archival footage, including this shot of a Mk Vb(trop)...
11th Mar 2018, 21:13
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Posted By topgas

a nice way of putting it:)

a nice way of putting it:)
7th Mar 2018, 10:21
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Posted By topgas

Danny, on the Vampires and Venoms thread,...

Danny, on the Vampires and Venoms thread, Nutloose posted the link to the Jever website. One of the stories by a pilot called Bob Broad caused me to chuckle in my cornflakes. Just in case you missed...
1st Mar 2018, 19:47
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Posted By topgas

Not sure if this was the one ...

Not sure if this was the one
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v708/JDK2/Vengeance.jpg

Also found some more, which might have been posted before

All RAAF Museum Archive, via JDK2
26th Jul 2017, 21:33
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Posted By topgas

That brasserie hasn't changed much ...

That brasserie hasn't changed much
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/4a/94/6f/4a946fa7bc145692a3de2b32093c58bc.jpg
27th Jun 2016, 12:32
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Posted By topgas

Was this "Mosquito Mutterings, with sketches by...

Was this "Mosquito Mutterings, with sketches by Koz"? It's listed as being printed in 1944, possibly reprinted in the 1990's

http://www.mossie.org/images/book_covers/mosquito_mutterings.jpg
5th Jun 2016, 18:34
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Posted By topgas

Unfortunately I have nothing to add to the Mess...

Unfortunately I have nothing to add to the Mess picture - it was just one I found in the link I gave.
A bit more digging on the IWM website for the first picture, of the Vengeance in action, has...
3rd Jun 2016, 17:15
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Posted By topgas

Apologies if this has already been posted, but I...

Apologies if this has already been posted, but I couldn't find it with a search of the thread.

I came across this article in the Canadian "Legion" magazine...
5th Mar 2016, 22:03
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Posted By topgas

Wikipedia seems to confirm what I have always...

Wikipedia seems to confirm what I have always believed, that Murphy's Law was named after a Major Murphy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_A._Murphy,_Jr.
It was something to do with pressure...
3rd Feb 2016, 21:33
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Posted By topgas

I was privileged last night to attend a talk...

I was privileged last night to attend a talk about Kamikase attacks on the British Pacific Fleet in 1945. Rather like 14th Army (the Forgotten Army) the British Pacific Fleet was largely...
23rd Oct 2015, 17:52
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Posted By topgas

I came across this site ...

I came across this site http://robertalfredjay.********.co.uk/ (http://robertalfredjay.********.co.uk) (for some reason Pprune doesn't like "blog spot" without the space so you'll have to replace...
19th Feb 2015, 07:53
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Posted By topgas

It looks like they were plumbed for nine 100 US...

It looks like they were plumbed for nine 100 US gallon internal tanks for ferrying, more than doubling the 805 US gallon standard fuel, according to C-47/Dakota...
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