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retards...the military guy they mention is pongoe the closest he ever got to a dighter was in the ramp as he walked towards a 130 or maybe in his case a Yukon or Comet

http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/off-topic-misc/what-aircraft-did-you-spot-today-29978.html sorry meant to include this

hows this

Nice Good thing about Canso and it is a Canso not a Caralina and there are differences is that they take hours to pass over head

the guy that was to land ref the radar was a Brit named Jack Nisenthal he landed with a platoon of the South Saskachewan Regiment the platoon was under the orders to kill Nisenthal if he was in ganger of becoming a prisoner World War II: RAF Flight Sgt. Jack Nissenthall's Secret Role in...

apparently others disagree with your thoughts including present day British intelligence cut and pasted from Vancouver Sun ..... Dieppe has always been viewed as a "lambs-to-the-slaughter" military fiasco, said O'Keefe, especially as seen from the Canadian side. "Dieppe is still a disaster," he...

If the documentary MM and I watched was correct and I have no need to doubt that it was as the recently released documents proved , it was staged to get 30RM also lnown as 30 Assualt unit in the harbour on a RN vessel so that they and picked up by another RN vessel to escape could steal the...

Yje Saab 35 is much like the EE Lightning its great if your protecting your back yard it has no range

there is a Mosquito under restoration in Victoria BC . I believe it was also a former Spartan bird like the one being moved to Nanton Victoria Air Maintenance Ltd. - Total Repair, Overhaul and Major Rebuild Service » Mosquito

I've been all over the world and no place on earth will ever match the hospitality nor the pure sincerity of the people from Newfoundland , bet you most of those folks got" Screeched in" which is a shot of Newfie Screech ( bad rum with a kicK) followed by kissing a codfish on the lips

if you watched the opening ceremonies on the main NBC network they omitted about half of them and just showed the main bits to fit into nighttime schedule, but NBC is the worst for Olynpics IMHO

very close to Goose Bay could have caused grief with fake signals in radio comms or navaids .Goose Bay was a major ferry departure point for Ferry Command both US and others , the next radio signals would been Greenland 800nm away and not all the crews crossing were experts . Major known example...

Hands down the Manchester

not in the same league as Staligrad but certainly amongst the toughest on the Western Front was the Battle of the Scheldt and the Breskins pocket the 3rd Canadian Div ((Water Rats) had more amphibious assaults against defended positions then any other Allied unit including USMC in WW2 as most...

probably an unknown German Flak Ship in north sea