i was watching bbc tv ‘midlands today’ last night and an item involving the sale of a model bomber made by a pow when at sagan was aired .
i couldn’t have been the only viewer to recognise the model as a merlin engined HALIFAX but this aspect of the story was not mentioned .
nor i will not comment on the fact that the background image was a LANCASTER ………………..
the newsreader talked of a ‘british bomber’ – and i’m sure that everyone realises that the whole bomber offensive was based on just one type of bomber aircraft !!!!!! :rolleyes:
the ‘squadron letters’ painted on the fuselage were RK – not a unit with which i am familiar .
the only useful information given in the story was that the model maker was imprisoned in sagan , his name was WARRANT OFFICER TAYLOR and he was shot down in 1944 .
anybody got any further information on this story ?
By: jettisoning - 1st February 2009 at 10:03
‘RK’ unit code
yes i agree with your comment – 10 OTU did carry those letters – but it doesn’t seem that a HALIFAX bomber was on the unit strength – WELLINGTONS and WHITLEYS ?
is this a case of the story deepening ?
anybody in possession of further information ?
By: antoni - 31st January 2009 at 14:57
RK were the letters used by 10 OTU.
By: longshot - 31st January 2009 at 14:20
It sold for £900. The associated diary sold for £440. Needless to say, I was outbid…..substantially!!
Previous thread here: –
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=87280&highlight=halifax
Thanks for the link to the earlier thread…I couldn’t get there on a search….as a friend of mine in the antiques trade says ‘theres still plenty of money around’!!!
By: avion ancien - 31st January 2009 at 09:37
………which just shows what a bit of free television publicity can do. Savvy creatures, those auctioneers!
By: --o-o-O-o-o-- - 31st January 2009 at 00:26
It sold for £900. The associated diary sold for £440. Needless to say, I was outbid…..substantially!!
Previous thread here: –
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=87280&highlight=halifax
By: jettisoning - 30th January 2009 at 11:53
model halifax
i must have missed the first set of notes posted earlier this month – don’t know how i managed not to see them .
yesterday the model (along with a journal kept in sagan) was sold at auction .
the RK squadron letters seem unresolved – no halifax squadrons flew with such letters as far as i can see .
the lack of care over journalistic detail does seem rife – and i note some measure of identity disagreement in the previous postings .
but it was DEFINITELY a halifax model !!!! with RK recognition letters .
By: Cees Broere - 30th January 2009 at 10:21
Hi there,
This has been discussed a few weeks before,
I suggest you try the search function.
Cheers
Cees
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