Anti-Aircraft weapons

• Jul 8, 2010

• #41

Thorlifter

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timshatz said:

Really enjoy the info you are putting out. It is extremely interesting.

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Ditto that.....I am completely enjoying your first hand account of what you did.

 

• Jul 9, 2010

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• #42

timmo

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Tim-

1. 'Smallprint' shows that it was Sweeps, Standing Patrols Bomber ESCORT - rather than us bombed up. When they went to France, it was all bombing straffing Typhoon Tale shows Jimmy Kyle doing 160+ such sorties. One ploy we used was to cross the Channel at 0 feet - + a whisper - then max rate climb to 10,000' or so.

7 months.

2. Can't compare performance, but yes - a big brute!! But the P47 must have been even heavier (?) yet was as sweet as silk.

= Tim

 

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• Jul 18, 2010

• #43

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Colin1

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Timmo
have you seen this? Get in touch with them man, tell'em you're still kicking too

Letters to the Editor

The Daily Telegraph Sunday 18 July 2010

SIR - I wonder how many are aware that in August 1941 Churchill sent 38 Hurricanes and their pilots to protect the Murmansk corridor.

Only one of those pilots remains alive today: Eric Carter, who not only received two Russian medals but was awarded Russian wings and made an honorary colonel of a Russian squadron. The help has not been forgotten, as he was recently invited to a reception at the Russian Embassy, where he was presented with a medal commemorating 65 years since the end of the Second World War in Europe.

Fg Off Cyril Burton (retd)
Abbots Morton, Worcestershire

PS: Do you remember either of them?

 

• Jul 18, 2010

• #44

vikingBerserker

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Man, this is fricken awesome!

 

• Jul 20, 2010

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timmo

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Thanks, Colin - I missed that.

I've written to the paper will have a severe word with Cyril - I have his number!!

Medals? He means these commem ones which everyone receives - http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v164/photo04/RAF2/meadalsMedium.jpg

And yes - we've all been invited to receive Russian hospitality but, for one, I don't travel well. And I'd rather have Fish Chips at home!!

= Tim



= Tim

 

• Jul 20, 2010

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timshatz

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timmo said:

And I'd rather have Fish Chips at home!!

= Tim



= Tim

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And Beer?