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    SAAF Foggia, Italy 1944

    Thankyou V2.......................i appreciate your help , Colleen
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    SAAF Foggia, Italy 1944

    Thankyou V2 , i had sworn off Facebook for obvious reasons .(chiefly Identity Fraud)
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    SAAF Foggia, Italy 1944

    Anthony , i just typed in a lengthy message to you and the flurry thing didn't go through ! . However i hope you are well .You are in Italy i'm in Australia so we are both at a disadvantage . Begin at the beginning , with your birth , going back through each generation (yes i know i'm stating...
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    SAAF Foggia, Italy 1944

    Hello Charmaine , my uncle Des arrived in Celone , Foggia on 2nd October 1944 and died in an aircrash of KH154 , SAAF , near R'ora in the Po Valley on the 12th October 1944 , thankyou for offering help , kind regards Colleen.
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    SAAF Foggia, Italy 1944

    Anthony , i'm sure you know that Richter is a name of German origin . Reaching out to our family however far away seems to be a shared human need . For myself the need to search for my uncle Des was spontaneous but strong , i had only seen photo's of him . Colleen .
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    SAAF Foggia, Italy 1944

    Hello Anthony , i don't quite understand your question , however it is possible to research for relatives in a number of ways , if that is what you mean , for free in a general sense ie: phone books and writing letters or Births , Deaths and Marriage records in the particular country.I am not an...
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    SAAF Foggia, Italy 1944

    Njaco , thankyou kindly for your help , Colleen
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    SAAF Foggia, Italy 1944

    Alte Hase , its true , all the men on all sides , the remembering and honouring will hopefully continue reminding all people everywhere of the cost of war .Thankyou , Colleen
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    SAAF Foggia, Italy 1944

    I want to mention the other young men on my uncles crew , one of whom was 19 years old .When i type these things i start to cry .If i could stretch out my arms to that plane in the cold and the rain of that dark night i would try to save them , try to stop the crash , try to stop the fire.
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    SAAF Foggia, Italy 1944

    Thankyou kindly Alte Hase , i will , i came across an Italian site which had the complete account of the mission the night of 12th October 1944 , it even had the sounds of a plane , maps of the terrain etc and i foolishly didn't save the sit address .A number of aircraft crashed that night , i...
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    SAAF Foggia, Italy 1944

    Brandon , my uncle Des was flying Liberator KH154 on the evening he died . He had been in England flying Lancasters , so how he came to be in Italy is still a mystery to me . I read the Liberators were called flying coffins because of the location of the fuel tanks and the only exit door being...
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    SAAF Foggia, Italy 1944

    Hello Brandon , its nearly impossible to leave a message on this site , its extremely frustrating , Colleen
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    SAAF Foggia, Italy 1944

    Hello Brandon , my uncle Desmond Vincent Watson , Seargent Pilot , RAAF , arrived at Foggia Italy on 2nd October 1944 and died in a mission to drop supplies to Italian Partisans the evening of 12th October 1944 , he was 20yrs old , the plane he was piloting crashed near the hill town of Rora ...
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