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March 29, 2013 at 1:07 pm in reply to: F/L Robert L. Wood , 609 Sq , missing #948445

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Hello Mark .

Thanks , PM sent .

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March 14, 2013 at 12:34 pm in reply to: French crash site…but what aircraft type? #962509

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DH and 98 … I agree , it seems a Mosquito .

March 4, 2013 at 9:47 am in reply to: Sir Alan Smith passes #975948

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Yes , Australia .

The best about him is this link , with nice interview at the bottom of the page :

http://www.tonygaze.com/

Oddly I’ve treasured the gun camera ( with film ) of his crash-landed Spit lost on 4 Sept. 1943 .

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March 4, 2013 at 7:05 am in reply to: Another missing RAF pilot #976095

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Hello Linda ,

I send you a email . Thanks !

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March 3, 2013 at 3:43 pm in reply to: Sir Alan Smith passes #976609

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Hello Andy ,

I think ace Tony Gaze is still with us .

January 7, 2013 at 1:07 pm in reply to: Operation Crossbow – Surviving Noball sites? #976584

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Hello Moggy C ,

Try this one , located 10 miles south Dieppe :

http://www.pyperpote.tonsite.biz/pages/v1_val_ygotpag.html

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December 20, 2012 at 7:09 pm in reply to: Typhoon & Pilots #1000050

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Serial MN197 comes from the ORB , but maybe it is wrong . All Typhoons were then reported with MN range .

About MN175 ‘s engine , there were some pictures of the dig on the Sq198 web site years ago .

December 20, 2012 at 5:23 pm in reply to: Typhoon & Pilots #1000188

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Hi Andy ,

If the picture is dated 15 June 1944 , that is very interesting . That day F/Sgt Edward Bartley was killed on a R/P mission aboard MN175 TP-U . Maybe he is one of them ? In 2004 we have investigated the crash-site and found the Napier engine , unfortunately he was killed bailing out too low after being hit by flak .
Just to add that TP-T was then MN197 , flown that day on the same mission by S/Ldr Davies DFC .

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December 20, 2012 at 4:00 pm in reply to: Typhoon & Pilots #1000401

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F/O Mate Milich , kia 8 Dec. 1944 , so Sq 198 pilots .
More on Milich here :

http://muse.aucklandmuseum.com/databases/cenotaph/RecordDetail.aspx?OriginalID=27663&SearchID=1071461&processed=true&Ordinal=3

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November 23, 2012 at 3:33 pm in reply to: 41 Squadron RAF history #960772

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Hi Dan ,

They were seen ( around 20 ! ) but I don’t have them alas . ECPA-D don’t release them , only for purposed publication .

November 23, 2012 at 3:12 pm in reply to: 41 Squadron RAF history #960799

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Possibly W3654 , lost 12 April 1942 . Pilot P/O A van Rood POW . Aircraft seen with small fuselage roundel on crash-site. There were also pictures of crashed EB-H W3450 , F/Sgt Watts killed same day .
Also seen at ECPA-D several pictures of crashed Spit XII EN235 EB-S , F/O R. Hogarth killed 18 July 1943 , with Kurt Goltzsch who claimed it .

July 9, 2012 at 10:38 am in reply to: Sq 182 , F/O Nicholas Snowdon missing #962349

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Thanks Andy .
There’s also a french Red Cross report which states that the body was not recovered.
Did the MREU positively identified the wreckage , any serial found ? Or was it by date given of the crash ?
We went to the site this week-end , it seems however that Typhoon R8834 had exploded on impact .

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May 4, 2012 at 1:10 pm in reply to: French teen flew old aircraft across Channel escaping Nazis #1044699

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Hello Dave ,

I think you are talking about Maurice Halna du Fretay , who escape from Brittany on 15 Nov. 1940 , flying a Zlin aircraft to UK . He was later killed during the Jubilee raid on 19 Aug. 1942.

Here’s a link ( in French ) :

http://videos.france5.fr/video/iLyROoaf8Io7.html

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February 23, 2012 at 7:27 pm in reply to: MkXII Spitfire Mystery Solved #1051752

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Yes , a niece has been found at Calgary . Interestingly both Harold Heninger and his brother Raymond were posted to Sq 91 and they shared the same plane , Spit XII DL-B , as they were not allowed flying on the same ops . Raymond survived the war and died 20 years ago.

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February 5, 2012 at 5:34 pm in reply to: Spitfire Access Panel #1073975

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Is that from a French Aéronavale Seafire XV ?
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