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Used to do odd jobs for a Devon recovery team.One awful rainy day I was asked to inspect some ordinance brought up by a trawler in Plymouth harbour,after inspecting the same I concluded it was in fact probably a harpoon gun as there where a lot of whaling ships impressed during the war,it appeared to have a round in the breach!The skipper was reluctant to part with it so I left.Years later((@98)I bumped into him,:what did you do with the harpoon gun?” “Oh I cleaned it up and had it mounted on the front garden!”Also in Plymouth sound are lots of souvenirs from the falklands war,I had parts of an SLR which I did clean and all of it worked OK!Whoever bought my old house might get a suprise one day!!Also bombs ,19th century grenades,old live ammo etc etc!

Bearcat

Great news!When will it do a flypast down Pattaya beach!

Lauriebe,
I poached this photo so thats as good as will get,sorry!Still do not see any photos on the original message or a link!You are probaly right about sembawang ,I only ever stopped one night in Changi back in 1963 before emplaning on a hastings for RAAF Butterworth.

I am working on a construction site in the far east of Russia,we have a bar for supervisory staff only,manual labour do not get any(well not that we know!)So we are supposed to be responsible persons and moderate our intake.Every morning a random office is breathalysed and if you are positive you are sacked,no excuses you are of the site by lunchtime and yes we do have about two cases a month.So what about people in the UK that get up after a night out drive to a factory and switch on the machinery they use!Can an employer introduce such a scheme in the UK?Maybe it would make people think twice?

I am fairly new to these forums and have noticed that there are some thread replys that contain photos but I am not seeing them?Can someone tell me if I am going wrong somewhere!!

Lincolns

When I joined as a boy entrant in 1958 I was at Cosford for 8 wks sqare bashing.On our first day we were allowed in the two big hangars next to the parade ground to look at/in the aircraft inside and there where lots!!One was a Lincoln ,what happened to it ?In 1961 while on an excersise at RAF Aldergrove I saw lots of Lincolns being cut up for scrap,no survivors there!!

Tracker

While working in Guantanamo Bay in 1994 a friend found a tracker while spearfishing/diving,a party of us used to dive it on a regular basis.Apparently it crashed (looks like double eng failure)after taking of and is now at 38 metres with wheels up but bomb bay doors open.Research has it crashing C 1971.There are several fuselages dumped around the bay including a bearcat ,navy type Harvard and a fairchild -123(?).