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Thats it - have had it. you wont here from me again - i treid this time and im still getting crap chucked at me. It said Aircraft pictures thats what i have posted!! Dear sir i disagree with your moving my post on this occasion for a number of reasons - 1) the post contains...

Put before an Honour Court and found guilty sentenced to Death - sentence to be carried out after the end of the War. Killed in Action just before end of the War in 1945 - last words reputed to have been "See you in Valhalla". "The failure of this operation led to the commander being...

This is the ship Ian Traveled on to Canada leaving Sydney and traveling non stop to Canada where he was trained at the RCAF Airfield at Fort Mcloud at 7 SFTS where he trained on Oxford Aircraft and was presented with his Wings in a hangar at the Airfield by Air Vice Marshall Stanley Goble RAAF...

Ian at the back of the Petwood Hotel, 617 RAF Squadron Officers Mess, RAF Woodhall Spa late 1944, sent to Family in 1945 after his Death.

Good Example of a Ditched Lanc - Ian's Lancaster was still in one piece and the wings were intact.

(very intrested in getting better quality picks then these can anyone help??)

Andreas Brekken? who is he and how do i get in touch!! Thanks for leaving the message, Stephen.

Another Example of a ditched Aircraft still well afloat several hours after Ditching Successfully. Digram shwing how a Tallboy Bomb as Carried on 12 January 1945 would have been used on a Lancaster.

Similar to Condition Ian's Lanc was in when Aircrew were Killed Unknown Pilot of Warwick is quoted in Several 617 Histories as stating (his never named just the sqd he was part of anyone know his name??) "Still well afloat with 6 on Wings and one in water Swimming towards the Lifeboat after...

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This is a plea for details on the Action between 617 RAF Sqd and 9 RAF Sqd on 12 January 1945 over Bergen Norway. During this operation we had a relation killed flying KC-B which were shot down and then machine gunned in the water and killed as the aircraft was drifting in towards the...

At First, things did not seem to be that 'bad' as all the Occupation forces behaved in an 'correct and unexpected manner', this being mainly due to the fact Adolf Hitler still saw Holland as part of his own dreams of a 'Germanic Empire', much as he wished to see the Nordic Nations of Norway and...

Other Noteable Germans Involved in Her Story or assigned to Capture or Destroy Netherlands baesed Resistance efforts included (1940-1945) - Dr Hans-Georg Calmeyer (1903-1972) - Commanded Abteilung Innere Verwaltung Assisted Thousands of Jewish People by falsifying their 'Jewishness' in...

Occupation Again May 1940 - 1941 Once more as in 1914 Holland declared itself Neutral in 1939 after Poland was Invaded on 1 September 1939by Germany - however on 10 May 1940 Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands were All invaded by the German's. Some areas were able to continue...