An Armstrong Siddeley Silver statue going cheap?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Huge-Sterling-Silver-Art-Deco-Statue-G-S-Co-1934-RAF_W0QQitemZ120488428336QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Antiques_Silverware_RL?hash=item1c0dab8330#ht_1112wt_938

or perhaps an early RAF clock?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Royal-Air-Force-Fusee-Wall-Clock-RAF_W0QQitemZ220545929454QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Clocks?hash=item33598fd0ee#ht_500wt_1179

There is a good photograph of her in the IWM collection at Lambeth. I have a copy and a scan on the other computer

There is a copy of it posted here :

http://www.lancaster-archive.com/lanc-noseart-d-f.htm

As a coincidence we are in the process of painting the artwork onto a small piece of Lancaster fuselage.

When I was a lad in Ayrshire -A neighbour with too much money took up fishing in the Clyde. He got bored angling for mackerel and fitted the boat with sonar and other toys.

He found what he thought were railway engines lying at the end of the Clyde – near Ailsa Craig.

Eventually he was told that it was deck cargo loaded onto merchantmen – who in wartime congregated at the mouth of the Clyde waiting for convoy instructions to Russia. If weather was bad or the trip was to be a fast one. The deck cargo was jettisoned.

He also found the Dasher and another time a large tubular section – which was a piece of Nuclear Sub – lost on its way to Barrow.

He was too dour to have made these up!

Joey

They are for sale on Amazon in three parts Or
They are available on Abebooks and Amazon as the combined book.

He was born Jewish – but as a native German – he was wounded in WW1 and married a gentile. He was a literature professor in Dresden Technical Uni

The military service and non Jewish wife saved him – up until the day of the raids – when he was given his notice of deportation. In the chaos following the raids – he and his wife ran away and hid in Germany until they found the US Army.

It follows him from affluent professor to ghetto jew – losing his job, his privileges, his pets… He was a proud German and refused to accept that this would happen …

His diaries show how normal German life was consumed by the National Socialists and how ordinary Germans behaved in this time…

There are several photographs of RAF thunderbolts in Simonsens book (RAF and RCAF Nose ART). Most based in Burma , Dutch East Indies and Egypt.

Most are 258 Squadron. Also 146, 30, 81 and 73OTU. They are mk 1 and 2’s

There are also some NZ pilots emblems.

Most of the photos are copyright Geoff Thomas – so I assume also appear in the book mentioned above.

Oh and Sally has a B17G chin turret – the Belle was an F – no forward facing guns – which is why she was so famous as having finished a tour…

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Bomberboy – thank you for filling in gaps.

However, if you read my post – I just said she was famous and had finished a tour – not what position she finished in!