Best Nightfighter of WW2

cheddar cheese · Dec 18, 2004

A glider maybe

Erich · Dec 18, 2004

Tigger, how many missions did your father fly in the Mossie ? did he score any kills ??

thank you

Erich ~

the lancaster kicks ass · Dec 19, 2004

It was the location of the engine that really killed it...

and often the pilot

tigger, how much more information do you have on your father, is he still alive??

cheddar cheese · Dec 19, 2004

and often the pilot

Yup, they were probably too busy wondering why all that hair had suddenly appeared where it shouldnt do and forgot about flying the thing

Tigger · Dec 19, 2004

My Dad was assigned as a Rad/Nav as he could understand the radar even though he was pilot-qualified in Canada. He stayed in the RAF until 1967 and even had 800 hours on the Berlin Airlift humantiarian missions on DC3s/C-47s in 1948.

I set up a reunion with his wartime pilot xxxxx and they just talked about the parties, which was good.

I have a (potentially) fantastic photo of "A Flight", 600 Sqn in front of a Mosquito NF but the pictures have become stuck after being kept in a cellar for 50 years and I am thinking of ways to put the picture back together - bits have been ripped off by the separation but still are there.

My father is alive - not many more years, maybe months, maybe - and this is why he talks with me at long last about these things.

I have the address of his pilot xxxx and hope he will lend me his album so I scan it.

By the way, 600 Sqn Mosquitoes did NOT carry BQ---- fuselage codes; they carried the code 6 - RAF roundel - aircraft letter. E.g G-for-George would be 6 -RAF roundel - G.

Kind regards

Anthony T

Erich · Dec 19, 2004

Anthony I would be very interested to hear more of his career and his squadron if at all possible. If you can share or send me a private I would be most grateful

njagd@charter.net

thank you''

Erich ~

GermansRGeniuses · Dec 19, 2004

Tigger said:
My Dad was assigned as a Rad/Nav as he could understand the radar even though he was pilot-qualified in Canada. He stayed in the RAF until 1967 and even had 800 hours on the Berlin Airlift humantiarian missions on DC3s/C-47s in 1948.

I set up a reunion with his wartime pilot xxxxx and they just talked about the parties, which was good.

I have a (potentially) fantastic photo of "A Flight", 600 Sqn in front of a Mosquito NF but the pictures have become stuck after being kept in a cellar for 50 years and I am thinking of ways to put the picture back together - bits have been ripped off by the separation but still are there.

My father is alive - not many more years, maybe months, maybe - and this is why he talks with me at long last about these things.

I have the address of his pilot xxxx and hope he will lend me his album so I scan it.

By the way, 600 Sqn Mosquitoes did NOT carry BQ---- fuselage codes; they carried the code 6 - RAF roundel - aircraft letter. E.g G-for-George would be 6 -RAF roundel - G.

Kind regards

Anthony T

Hmmm...

Anthony T...

Might this be TonyT in disguise?

Nonskimmer · Dec 19, 2004

Regardless, his dad sounds to have had a hell of a career.
Very interesting, Tigger!

the lancaster kicks ass · Dec 20, 2004

can't wait to find out more..............

Tigger · Dec 20, 2004

Nothing to do with the Vulcan project, though I think that's a worthy cause.

Am appalled to see the one at Duxford turfed out into the open to fester the way the Victor et al have. Used to have its own indoor hangar area with training WE-177 nukes on show. The rust and rot is already setting in - aagh!

On the Beau, the attach may be of interest - very few pictures of No46 Beaus wearing the sand, brown and nlack scheme have ever appeared anywhere. These were repainted during 1944, and a mix of schemes ensued for most of that year.

Anthony T

Tigger · Dec 20, 2004

Sorry guys, the system wouldn't let me upload!!!

Anthony T

Tigger · Dec 20, 2004

Success!

cheddar cheese · Dec 20, 2004

Nice picture 8)

Erich · Dec 23, 2004

Great lookin Beu Anthony, please give my best to you and your familie and Merry Christmas.

guys here's a very rare pic of a Ju 88G-6 from friend and ace Peter Spoden, viewed in December 1944 at the base at Schwäbisch Hall. He and his crew were shot down by accidnet by German Fla-2cm guns and Peter was wounded but received another Ju 88G-6 later as he healed up.

the lancaster kicks ass · Dec 23, 2004

very festive.........

cheddar cheese · Dec 23, 2004

I take it thats snow on the wings and runway?

Erich · Dec 23, 2004

needs a red bow around the tail correct ?

yes snow indeed whcih was a total pain to take off on at night when the snow turn to iced over crud........

cheddar cheese · Dec 24, 2004

Didnt some planes have skis to overcome this though? Ive seen some pictures of P-38's equipped with skis.

lesofprimus · Dec 24, 2004

Ive have seen many different aircraft with skiis on them.....

Tigger · Dec 24, 2004

War is a horrible thing, though sometimes fascinating because of technology and sheer perverse aesthetic viscera

We must all be friends now, and either accept each other or attempt to be historians in an effort to understand and record important things for the sake of history.

The time has come to keep ideals to sport and to "fight" for a better world - that's what all the fighting was about in the first place; a degree of homogenisation that we all can accept.

Within our own ranks, please let us just accept received wisdom, which I think goes along the lines of:
"Try to understand what you can't change, work hard at what you can, and have the wisdom to understand the difference".

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