Hello,

Does anyone know how the Barracuda actually folded its wings as from the only photo seen, its seems to be a jumble of dive brakes and flaps?

Only asking for an upcoming model project and at this present time, details are a little hard to find.

Best wishes,

Martin

Is there any of these in existence?

😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀

Tillerman.

Errrr….. Junk Collector started it with prawn cocktail crisps, british bangers. All I did was mention strawberries, bananas and WI cake. Sorry. 🙁 🙁

Mark 😀 😀 😀 😀

The vignette on the South wall is described thus “The second group shows the wounded and dying body of the warrior being gathered up by female and Gurkha soldiers, while the figure before the double doors points to a world beyond where the warrior will rest. The letter – carver witnesses the episode and records the inscription on the wall for posterity.”

Photographs of the North wall and yet more of Sassoon’s ‘intolerably nameless names.’

The Armed Forces Memorial is everything it should be and more. It is peaceful, evocative, even beautiful, but it conveys such an immense impression of power. Almost as though those remembered there are shouting to the world ‘now try and forget us!’

The most powerful image of the day came to me as I looked through the viewfinder of the camera at the blank Southern wall. I put the camera down without taking the shot. Sadly, the names of future generations will adorn that wall. Maybe then I’ll take a photograph.

Regards,

kev35

Excellent images. Is there a list of the names on the web?

Operation Tungsten, Operation Mascot and Operations Goodwood 1, 2 and 3, all against the Tirpitz and all in more or less the same place. There were at least two Barracudas shot down, but the condition might not be so good. The reason for some ‘lucky’ Skua finds is that some were ditched without too much damage having been done or force landed on frozen lakes that later melted.

Mark is right that locating wrecks is not a cheap business – Klas Gjoeslmi who was behind the location of Casson’s Skua had a lot of support from the NTNU who provided the boat and the ROV and in return were able to use the exercise as education for students and considerable credit is due to all of them for making this work.

I believe the Stirling is a war grave.

Does that mean he’s got the search and finding bit covered but not the recovery? I know that the Bodo museum has been mentioned but it’s 240 meters and that’s not a walk in the park for divers. Looking at the He111 and Ju88 recovery they just fired bolts into the airframes but this aircraft looks more than a little bent. It could just fall appart on the way up. 240 meters isn’t too much of a depth for a saturation dive team but that would be seriously expensive. With a partial pressure of 1.4 of O2 at that depth it would still be .056% (A hypoxic mix) and the decompression overhead would be horrendous but even then you would still have to carry transport gasses. SCUBA Divers have exceeded this depth on open circuit equipment but would they be able to do anything when down there. It would probably have to all be done very carefully but with an ROV and hope it doesn’t fall to bits on the way up.

Did any of the Barracudas ditch during the attack?

Mark

Definately a known Beaufigter in Norwegian waters ! A Barracuda must exist in those waters !

There is a Canadian group who are mentioned on a forum here Last Beaufighter who are going to try and locate a couple of Beaufighters later on this year.

Mark

Are there any photo’s of this lost Skua…

I wonder where the engine is.

Mark