I found this site while researching details for a manuscript I'm working on, looking for details about the Luftwaffe's HDL-151 turret. The site is an incredible repository of facts, discourse and talent. It's a privilege to be a member. As for me, the first book I bought from my own money when I was nine years old in 1975 was "Aces High" which I read and reread, even tracing the illustrations from the appendix and coloring them in! Military aviation been a lifelong source of enjoyment since then, primarily for my own knowledge. My hometown is just up the coast from Botwood, Newfoundland, an early seaplane base, where Sidney Cotton based a flying operation in 1920. PBYs operated there during the war. Now I live further east in Newfoundland, in the town where the first transatlantic telephone cable was brought ashore in the 50s. I'm chair bound with MS and sites like this are a godsend to people like me who can't easily get out to libraries or university campuses.
Cheers and thanks,
Barry Moores
Cheers and thanks,
Barry Moores