Air Chief Marshal Sir Augustus Walker lost an arm and continued flying with a leather strap wrapped around the controls.
Pages 36 and 37 from this site will tell you more.
http://83.138.136.216/rafcms/mediafiles/2BCF1A04_1143_EC82_2E88D42EBED2CACA.pdf
Gus Walker was my fathers Commanding Officer with 50 Squadron, I have in my possession a Christmas card signed by him when he was commanding at North Luffenham in 1941.
A little more information and more questions, but isn’t that always the case?
From 50 Squadron Orbs.
“Target – aiming point – BERLIN. This aircraft left SWANTON MORLEY climbing to 5000ft and finally to 9000ft over the DUTCH coast. A recall was received when just inside enemy territory. A flare was dropped to ascertain exact position. The I.F.F. proved very successful against active searchlights. A bombing run was made South to North on the RHEINE with the wing bombs. No results seen.”
At this time of 1941 50 Squadron were operating out of Swinderby. However this aircraft left Swinderby earlier in the day for Swanton Morley with P/O Carter at the controls. For the trip to Berlin S/LD Mulford was the pilot.
No where else do I find any reference to S/LD Mulford. Not in the squadrons Orbs or in my fathers log book. Any suggestions as to who he would be and why such a high ranking officer would pick this trip to go on?
Where is Swantom Morley? I note that it was a 55 minute flight from Swinderby.
I think R.F.X would be in for the radio frequency they used to return to Finningley.
Low altitude parachute jump
Here are a couple of sites that might help.
http://www.pegasusarchive.org/pow/frames.htm
http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-WH2Pris.html
http://www.rafcommands.com/Air%20Force%20PoWs/RAF%20POWs%20Index.html
The archaeological national office send me on Monday some people for searching and saving more human remains. The british embassy in Berlin will be contacted also on Monday.
Any further reports on this?
I believe the round red tag is fireproof and the angular grey one is waterproof.
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Thanks for the information. I wasn’t aware of that.
Can you tell me the dimensions of the tags?
Red one is 35mm. across.
Grey one is 39 mm. across, 33mm. top to bottom. The 4 corner straight edges are approximately 16 mm in length. The top, bottom, and side straight edges are 21 mm long.
Here’s my Dad’s.
Here are a couple of pictures of G AGSH taken June 16th 1974 at Weston On The Green. She was conducting Parachute Operations that day.
Chris Sheppard (http://www.printroom.com/pro/ShepArtStudio) cleaned the image up for me. Thanks Chris.
David,
It looks like you’ve got an ID, but this might be worth a try to make the picture a bit clearer.
It looks to me like a sepia print that you’ve scanned in colour. If that is so, and if your picture software will let you, try converting the colour scan to greyscale, and fiddling with the brightness and contrast. I’ll make no promises as to whether the detail will become any clearer, but it works very well on pictures that have yellowed. It is important in my experience to scan in colour first, rather than scan in greyscale.
Hope that helps!
Adrian
Thanks for the tips. It’s an old black and white picture that has faded with age. Will get the Mrs. to try and juggle with it.
Have found this…………..
“The Vimy-Commercial first flew from Joyce Green airfield in Kent on 13 April 1919 with the military serial K107. It became G-EAAV on the civil register. ”
at http://www.economicexpert.com/a/Vickers:Vimy.htm
so well done XN 923 right first time.
Vickers Vernon or Vimy Commercial?
Perhaps someone knows had to track it down from the K 107 on the side.
From 97 Squadron site