Gerry Anderson – R.I.P.

Didn’t he also do Twizzle and Torchy the Battery Boy? And no, I’m not old enough to remember them first time around 🙂

Yes he did – and I did watch them the first time round as well!! 🙂

And, having read the post above, I personally blame Andy Saunders for the BBC not giving Four Feather Falls a mention – typical expert, only gives his own slant on the story, never mind the facts!! 🙂

Allan

Gerry Anderson – R.I.P. What about “Four Feather Falls”

Sad news – but once again, after watching the BBC news, nobody mentions Four Feather Falls – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Feather_Falls which I enjoyed watching way back in 1960, as well as the later Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet etc.

cheers

Allan

I hope you were writing about the size of your star – or maybe that’s what you call it 🙂

Gifts of War

Hi Snoopy

I would hate to drag a thread off-track, which could be painful, so happy for you to pm me or send me an e-mail at allan(dot)hillman(at)btinternet(dot)com, replacing the obvious of course, which might be quicker, especially as the world did not end at 11.11 gmt this morning, so I am reasonably free this afternoon now as my plans to stay in a bunker have changed – Strictly along the lines of research of course !! 🙂

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-20803579 🙂

cheers

Allan

Muriel and “Gifts of War”

Atcham – Blisters – painful in the extreme – poor Muriel, hope Robin sorts them for her !! 🙂 or should that be 🙁

Snoopy – I have “Gifts of War” – so if you have any specific questions fire away, it does have a “numerical check list of presentation Spitfire names” giving the presentation name and serial numbers, and an “alphabetical list of presentation Spitfire donors” but they stretch from page 357 to page 381, so whilst I will check for you I definitely won’t scan them!! 🙂

cheers

Allan

Mystery Typhoon & Squadron – no longer a mystery

Hi Andy

Pretty easy this one with a little research into my archive – “Typhoon pilots of No. 198 Squadron at Thorney Island, 15 June 1944. 2nd TAF had 18 Squadrons of Typhoons available for the invasion – 11 rocket firing and seven bomb carrying. By mid-June they were using ALGs in Normandy to re-arm and refuel, and by the end of the month many had made a permanent move to France. The aircraft, coded TP-T is possibly JR197, which was shot down by flak near Cherbourg on 22 June, killing Squadron Leader Ian Davies.”

HU 86371 found in Fighter Command 1939 – 1945 (photographs from the IWM) by Ian Carter – page 130.

I will leave somebody else to name the pilots !!

cheers

Allan

83 Group Support Unit – location of photo – Redhill

Andy – Don’t make it “perhaps post” – please post away, this item could really take off!! 🙂

Atcham – I had considered your suggestion of 3501 S.U. at Cranfield, before you made it (!), but discounted it because of the comment by Jayce “Yeah, assuming it’s taken on the southern boundary, it does look a lot like Redhill even today”, which matched my own research. 🙂

Allan

Copyright

Hi Andy

Totally agree that copyright is a minefield – the reason I ask is that I have a photo, clearly marked A (Crown) M Crown Copyright Reserved, on the reverse, and it is of “125 Wing. July 1944. France” and “Telephone Boys” all in my late father’s handwriting, with the names of himself and several friends marked on as well, this of course was taken at B.11 Longues-sur-Mer.

It also has “Hillman” in green ink in the top left hand corner, in his handwriting, which could indicate that this was his copy, and, perhaps, he then wrote the names of his friends and colleagues on their copy?

Now this photo is of 29 men, but as to who took the photo, whether it was developed officially or unofficially or not, and who else has a copy I have no idea. Dad was born in 1921, and the others could have been born earlier or later than that – so probably all about 90ish if still alive – and the mark on the paper is no different really to pictures that have Kodak” or “Agfa” printed on them.

Now is that mine if I wish to publish it or what, in my opinion it is – I have certainly never found it on the web, unlike the AWM photo of him, and colleagues, at Ford.

Minefield indeed!!

Other photos that I hold taken in Douai, Brussels, Copenhagen itself or Kastrup airfield are easier as nothing is stamped officially on the reverse!!

Cheers

Allan