Took off from Hurn just after 1pm popped down to have a look, years since i saw a lanc take off and seeing as there was two couldn’t resist, wow what a sight never to forget

If you look at the statistics for the use of the Ju87 against British targets in 1940 they are quite surprising.

As for the legend that they had to be withdrawn from the battle after losses on 16 and 18 August 1940…well….you’ll have to wait for the boo….;)

my dad who was in the army stationed in Kent says they were dive bombed by stukas in November 1940, alway wondered whether he got his plane recognition right

i remember reading about a bomb aimer in the front turret who had a 110 plum in his sights but the guns had frozen

personally i think i wouldnt like to see her fly again, where else can you actually go inside a Lanc, or see the taxi runs on a firework night ,ok you have to pay, but you cant go inside POTR , but you can see her fly.

I just can’t understand this – its an outright shame to be defacing/disassembling memorials in the first place – but WHAT is going on over there??

Is the nation THAT bl–dy impoverished that every last spec of metal has to be scrounged to pawn off for a few quid?… or are these the same sh**s that couldn’t care less about the (recyclable) beer tins they toss along the pavement?

JJ

who knows, you forget one thing they may not have been english (but i wouldnt have put it past some of them) we are awash with other nationalities now

Thank you, Hatton – you have managed to put into words what I could not. The inchoate ranting on the Woodhall Spa thread made me almost as mad as the original crime.

As for “It never happened in our day” – like hell! I can’t find the damn thing now I need it, but someone on the Great War Forum posted a newspaper cutting about someone who had made off with the takings from his Poppy collection tin.

In 1932…

Adrian

bet you could walk the streets in nottingham at night in 1932 without worrying

Jesus. Why do we always have to have all this rubbish spouted? Yes it’s dreadful. Of course it is. But why do the same people bleat on about the ‘scum’ etc., and what they would do to them if they caught them? Let’s face it, you’re not going to catch them. You are not going to lift one bloated cheek off the comfortable chair you sit in to use your PC to do anything about the situation are you? So please, tell me what is the point? If the people who come out these crass, throwaway comments about what they’d do to the perpetrators were confronted with the situation themselves they are the very people who would do NOTHING.

It’s a sad indictment of society that these things still happen. All the false posturing is sad too.

Why can’t we, for once, look at the positives? Remembrance is achieving a far higher profile now that it has for a number of years. More young people are becoming involved. More young people are recognising what it is all about. Why not dwell on that for once?

Regards,

kev35

i agree with your points to an extent, i have a 14 year old boy and have met some of his mates and a good bunch they are, but of course you cant tar everyone with the same brush, but as far as spouting off, dont see the harm, you cant get on a soap box in hyde park corner and say these things anymore can you? youd be inciting hatred or whatever they call it