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  • in reply to: RAF Bomber Command Airfield Callsigns #1304497
    CJH
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    Don’t suppose they are mentioned in the “Action Stations” Books at all – I havent got them Im afraid so I cant check

    Chris

    in reply to: Hurricane NX96RW arrives Houston DW Hooks Wednesday #1304721
    CJH
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    Looks good to me.

    well done everyone involved in this rebirth

    Chris

    in reply to: RAF Airfields on Film #1305065
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    Don’t suppose anyone has an idea where the 1942 film “Flying Fortress” starring Richard Greene was shot ??

    memorable for a scene where he crawls out onto the wing of his B-17 to smother a fire – otherwise I am told a forgettable film ( I have never seen it)

    The engine repair incident was based on an actual event. A Royal New Zealand Air Force pilot, Sergeant James Allen Ward, earned the VC after he climbed onto the wing of his aircraft on 7 July 1941 to smother the burning engine.

    in reply to: RAF Airfields on Film #1305069
    CJH
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    Im going to start databasing this today – I promise

    Coastal Command – RAF Films 1942
    RAF Bowmore, Bowmore, Isle of Islay
    RAF Port Ellen, Glenegedale, Isle of Islay

    Cheers Chaps

    Chris

    in reply to: Garden Use of Aircraft relics #1305077
    CJH
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    Oh for a garden large enough for a shed – let alone a turret

    sorry thats being flippant…

    a good idea for a topic.

    cheers

    Chris

    in reply to: North East Aircraft Museum…..updates #1305090
    CJH
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    Thanks for the pics

    now that I have some time free (ha)

    when the weather warms, I’ll run over to the NEAM again.

    Cheers

    Chris

    in reply to: The Bader Enigma (The End) #1305319
    CJH
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    Its a bit like Cluedo isn’t it

    I bet Colonel Mustard did it

    in reply to: Roundel on E-bay #1305475
    CJH
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    welcome to the forum indeed

    I am assuming that the hint of grey around the roundel is the paint on the metal….the suggested uniform curve suggests to me that it is cut from the body rather than the wing….this may be camera angle of course

    from what is the question indeed….no idea is my honest answer

    in reply to: RAF Airfields on Film #1305601
    CJH
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    You can as a quick sunday evening test work out where the airfield was that features in BofB with Spits taking off over the English channel 🙂

    Just a guess. Hawkinge?[/QUOTE]

    as seen in my original post : yes it was Hawkinge…not much left of it now though –

    the BoB museum on just about the last part of the airfield is worth a visit if you are passing through.

    Chris

    in reply to: RAF Airfields on Film #1306007
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    I believe there is a film called the “Red Berets” which shows a couple of scenes of a Wellington T10 in front of a hangar-all in colour!!(-unless I am dreaming).Damned if I know which airfeild it was filmed at though.:confused:

    Thanks…..

    The film “The Red Berets” was partially shot at RAF Abingdon Parachute School, RAF Abingdon in Oxfordshire….1953……Alan Ladd in the lead role and a host of recognisable British actors.

    in reply to: The Bader Enigma (The End) #1306251
    CJH
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    to me it sounds like one of two possibilities.

    in the first
    Kenneth Williams, a Royal Navy medic in 1942 is asked to assist someone without legs who is masquerading themselves as Bader (perhaps capitalising upon Baders fame) while staying at the Stork Hotel in Liverpool.

    Although applying logic after the facts, the intoduction of this single element into the story, of impersonation, destroys the mystery and conspiracy element completely.

    in the second it is all a fabrication for whatever purpose, potentially moneymaking.

    The fact within this twisted tale is that Bader was secure within Colditz until the spring of 1945. The Germans would not have let one of their ultra troublemaking POWs out for a bit of weekend leave – especially not back to England.

    Chris

    in reply to: RAF Bomber Command Airfield Callsigns #1306892
    CJH
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    I believe that Skellingthorpe was “Blackswan”

    in reply to: RAF Airfields on Film #1307614
    CJH
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    Twelve O’Clock High was (as in my original post ) filmed at Barford St. John Oxfordshire in 1949

    CJH
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    would have loved to run down for this.

    but its too early in the year for a long haul on the bike – January is too cold and I’m not as young (or as mad apparently) as I once was.

    if anything is going on slightly later in the year please let me know

    Chris

    in reply to: Vacant Plinth in Trafalgar Square #1307681
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    case proven I think

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