Thanks JDK…..!!!!!

JDK, thanks for the welcome…a long time reader of FlyPast and have been reading this board for sometime now. I got a laugh out of your telling me about the Aussie “Slang” translation of Blue
Noser. Yes a different lot here, most airmen could bend the elbow with the best of them . In fact the night before the August 1944 mission , on which Maj George E. Preddy Jr shot down 6 ME-109’s and became the groups top scorer , saw them get pretty well lit up in a high stakes poker game at Bodney. There was to be no mission on that day, but events changed and with only several hours of sleep , they got the call to fly !!!! Maj Preddy took out his hangover on The Luftwaffe on that August Day in 1944! I hope one day to see the production company in Flordia , market its DVD documentary on the 352nd Fighter Group. It is perhaps on of the finest programs I have ever seen on a World War II fighter group. I can post you the address here in the states if you wish. The cost of region free dvd players has really come down and I had to get one to play all the military dvd titles I have bought in the UK over the last several years! The Region 1 DVD sold here in the colonies ,does not have any extras and looking forward to seeing this new region 2, with the documentary on the making of the film, same is true for the May 2004 release of the new region 2 double disc of “A Bridge Too Far “. This will have many extras , with a documentary about the making of the film. I saw this back on tv here in the states in 1980 and have been trying to locate a copy since. This is an outstanding forum and loaded with so much information and history here, those who post here really know their history. Thanks again for the welcome, however my guys from Bodney were know to the Luftwaffe as “The BlueNose *******s of Bodney”, a name given to them by none other than Herman Goring !