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  • August 11, 2015 at 5:01 pm in reply to: General Discussion #255792
    AlanR
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    Wish they had saved a Flower Class Corvette in the UK.

    A chap I used to know in Southend, (now sadly deceased) served on a Flower Class Corvette during WWII.
    I believe he was a marine. He had some stories to tell.

    August 11, 2015 at 5:01 pm in reply to: HMS Hood #1815318
    AlanR
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    Wish they had saved a Flower Class Corvette in the UK.

    A chap I used to know in Southend, (now sadly deceased) served on a Flower Class Corvette during WWII.
    I believe he was a marine. He had some stories to tell.

    August 11, 2015 at 4:54 pm in reply to: Baggage compartments in Fighter aircraft #2193531
    AlanR
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    I remember a neighbour of my Father telling me some years ago, that when their F-111s deployed overseas,
    they came back well loaded up.

    August 10, 2015 at 5:46 pm in reply to: German bomber crash at Pbmarsh , Essex. #919191
    AlanR
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    There is apparently a photograph of the RAF pilot who shot the Dornier down.

    August 10, 2015 at 12:39 pm in reply to: Essex HMVA Military & Flying Machines 2015 on sunday 8th August 2015 at daymans h #455805
    AlanR
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    Nice pictures.

    We go most years, but I’d been out all day Saturday, and the heat had got to me.
    I couldn’t face another day of walking around in the sun. It’s a shame, as it’s a good show.

    August 10, 2015 at 12:18 pm in reply to: General Discussion #256098
    AlanR
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    Some years ago (1986) I met a Hood sailor who was (lucky) posted dreckly before the ship sailed for Bismark..

    That reminds me of when I was working in an empty house in Southend a few years ago.
    I had to take the old lino up, and underneath were lots of old newspapers, mostly Daily Heralds.
    They were mostly dated around 1939. I picked up one and it had a picture of a sailor home on leave, with his wife
    and newborn baby. He was serving on HMS Hood. I saved some of the papers, but not unfortunately that one.

    August 10, 2015 at 12:18 pm in reply to: HMS Hood #1815570
    AlanR
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    Some years ago (1986) I met a Hood sailor who was (lucky) posted dreckly before the ship sailed for Bismark..

    That reminds me of when I was working in an empty house in Southend a few years ago.
    I had to take the old lino up, and underneath were lots of old newspapers, mostly Daily Heralds.
    They were mostly dated around 1939. I picked up one and it had a picture of a sailor home on leave, with his wife
    and newborn baby. He was serving on HMS Hood. I saved some of the papers, but not unfortunately that one.

    August 9, 2015 at 1:43 pm in reply to: 70 years ago today #920460
    AlanR
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    Today is the 70th Anniversary of the bomb being dropped on Nagasaki.

    August 7, 2015 at 11:02 pm in reply to: General Discussion #256281
    AlanR
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    A great result (nearly) for England, but not I fear, a great advert for test cricket.
    I hope the last test at least, goes into a fifth day. There must be a lot of unhappy supporters
    who have been denied seeing any test cricket in this series. Irrespective of the results.

    August 7, 2015 at 11:02 pm in reply to: Advance Australia Fair #1815729
    AlanR
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    A great result (nearly) for England, but not I fear, a great advert for test cricket.
    I hope the last test at least, goes into a fifth day. There must be a lot of unhappy supporters
    who have been denied seeing any test cricket in this series. Irrespective of the results.

    August 7, 2015 at 12:48 pm in reply to: Spotted (2015) #921814
    AlanR
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    Pair of Chinooks heading south over Rayleigh at 12:45

    August 7, 2015 at 9:39 am in reply to: 70 years ago today #921866
    AlanR
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    That’s why I hate this anniversary…every year we get the same arguments from people who clearly know more than the rest of us.

    I agree. The same always happens when the subject of Dresden comes up.

    Paul Tibbets said the he never lost a moments sleep over dropping the bomb, and given the same circumstances
    would have done it again.
    Those sentiments were echoed by those who had suffered barbaric cruelty, at the hands of the Japanese.

    August 6, 2015 at 9:16 pm in reply to: Canadian Lancaster UK tour DVD release details #922272
    AlanR
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    I want one !

    August 6, 2015 at 7:24 am in reply to: Spotted (2015) #922912
    AlanR
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    Mig 15 over Duxford on Monday. Didn’t know there was one over here. Got a feeling that there is one based in scandanavia.

    Its down to appear at Easrbourne.

    August 5, 2015 at 10:48 pm in reply to: General Discussion #256687
    AlanR
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    I’m reckoning if nothing untoward is widely circulated I’ll upgrade from my current W7 to W10 in September or October.

    That should be enough time for any horrendous flaws to have been discovered.

    Moggy

    I’m thinking along the same lines myself, when I shall also upgrade my computer.

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