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Forum: Military Aviation
15th Jul 2020, 21:13
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,826,448
Posted By Keeffro

As this thread drifted a bit off course in one...

As this thread drifted a bit off course in one direction, I drifted in another, and for a while I wasn't checking in here as regularly, as religiously as I used to in the early years.

With the...
Forum: Military Aviation
13th Jul 2020, 22:03
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,826,448
Posted By Keeffro

Ormeside, Would you have come across Dennis...

Ormeside,

Would you have come across Dennis (another of the many nicknamed "Danny") Gilbert in the Glider Regiment? He was also RAF. He trained on Catalinas in Pensacola.

At the Rhine...
Forum: Military Aviation
5th Oct 2016, 20:57
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,826,448
Posted By Keeffro

Thought I was up for at least a carpeting, if not...

Thought I was up for at least a carpeting, if not Court Martial.

You may remember I posted a few weeks ago about a former RAF Catalina pilot who was due to give a talk about his time during WW2...
Forum: Military Aviation
13th Sep 2016, 10:33
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,826,448
Posted By Keeffro

Thank you, Ian, Duly bookmarked for perusal...

Thank you, Ian,

Duly bookmarked for perusal as soon as the sun drops below the RAF equivalent of the yard arm.

That link saves me from the embarrassment of half-remembered anecdotes and...
Forum: Military Aviation
12th Sep 2016, 22:39
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,826,448
Posted By Keeffro

Oops! Forgotten how to do a quote here, but...

Oops! Forgotten how to do a quote here, but anyway:



Two (or more) stories here:

The Irish Free State maintained a superficially strict policy of neutrality, but a very blind eye was turned...
Forum: Military Aviation
12th Sep 2016, 20:00
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,826,448
Posted By Keeffro

Catalinas in WWII

Lurkers within striking range of Dublin might be interested in this (pity about the missing word in the description, though! Agog to find out over which expanse of water he operated):

Upcoming...
Forum: Military Aviation
22nd Aug 2016, 19:26
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,826,448
Posted By Keeffro

Elegantly put.

Elegantly put.
Forum: Military Aviation
12th May 2016, 17:11
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,826,448
Posted By Keeffro

Delighted to see you back at the controls, Danny,...

Delighted to see you back at the controls, Danny, and I add my best wishes to those already expressed :ok:.

It is indeed surprising how, given its scale, Operation Varsity appears to have slipped...
Forum: Military Aviation
4th May 2016, 23:33
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,826,448
Posted By Keeffro

From Pensacola to the Rhine

The noble call from Danny!

By the time Dennis was ready to be posted to an operational squadron, the need for Catalina pilots was declining. So he either volunteered or was volunteered to retrain...
Forum: Military Aviation
27th Apr 2016, 18:04
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,826,448
Posted By Keeffro

Catalinas in Pensacola

Talk of doldrums leads me to make a very modest and vicarious contribution to this thread of threads, which I discovered – oh, shortly after the end of the War, it now seems - by googling “Catalina...
Forum: Military Aviation
16th Feb 2016, 15:24
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,826,448
Posted By Keeffro

Third Reich aircraft types

I may be teaching my grandmother how to suck eggs, but fans of this thread may be interested in the table at the end of this Wikipedia article, which gives an apparently exhaustive list of...
Forum: Military Aviation
22nd Jan 2016, 16:54
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,826,448
Posted By Keeffro

Elmer's tune

From the YouTube comments. A song for its era:

Over in Chicago next to the Aragon Ballroom was a funeral parlor. One of the morticians was Elmer Albrecht, who used to go next door to the Aragon...
Forum: Military Aviation
3rd Aug 2015, 16:47
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,826,448
Posted By Keeffro

Angel Vicarious memories

The possibility that this most wonderful thread might slip onto Page 2 has stirred me out of the lurkerdom to which I have most properly confined myself as an earth-bound former part-time cavalryman,...
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