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  • in reply to: Historical Aviation Advertisements #1556425
    ettrick40
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    Only one word GREAT
    Thank you to share.

    in reply to: Thanks Snapper #1559078
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    Thanks Snapper,
    Sorry,but due to circumstances,I couldn’t be there.As I understand it was great without special effect.I have given your pic’s to “Cheval” and he was also sorry not to be there Thanks,thanks,thanks…
    Lest we forget

    in reply to: 61 years ago today at Duxford. 26th June 1942. #1607355
    ettrick40
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    Thank you for remembering an outstanding pilot
    lest we forget
    Ettrick40

    in reply to: A handful of 609 Squadron photos #1615410
    ettrick40
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    Hello,
    and also Luc Javaux (ex BoB),KIA 18/10/1943 at Ranchi INDIA.
    Ettrick 40

    in reply to: Cheval Lallemand in Normandy #1617627
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    Hello,I am Ettrick40.I would thanks Snapper for his help.I have problems with pics to send to Key publishing?But I have many friends.The two pics are :Cheval Lallemant with J.Woolworth,first glider pilot to land a Pegasus bridge.The second is “Cheval” with the 609 flag on Pegasus bridge the 5/6/20054

    in reply to: Belgian pilots uniform (Snapper?) #1606490
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    Hello,
    59 Belgians had a DFC.Some were members of the SAAF.Two Belgians had the DSO
    About E Bay’s uniform,it’s a battle dress which was abandonned mid fifties.It’s a Major (BAF) uniform.As it wore a “médaille du prisonnier” perhaps is it possible to determine the name of the man.I’ll try and will come back with (perhaps )an answer.

    in reply to: Bristol Blenheims, Beaforts and Beaufighters #1804507
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    hello,
    a little reply.Yes Mk IV flew during the BoB.I know that squadrons 235 and 236 flew with this aircraft.They are on the list of the fighter squadrons of BoB.and the aircrew bore the BoB clasp.Two Belgians had a victory on Mk IV Henri GONAY and Leon PREVOT.their victims were two He 60

    in reply to: OT but…Happy Birthday Snapper! #1821211
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    Belgian drinking? Water?
    Happy birthday and many more years!

    in reply to: Open letter to Steve and Kittyhawk #1821496
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    Moggy,you are right.Thank you for your opinion;I share it

    in reply to: LALLEMAND R. – 609Sqn – Belgian in the RAF. #1823063
    ettrick40
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    Dimitri,
    Do you know that R.Lallemant has written three books?
    1)Rendez-vous avec la chance (rendez-vous with fate)
    2)Rendez-vous d’un jour (one day’s rendez vous)
    3)Rendez-vous avec le destin (rendez-vous with destiny)
    The last is just published now.
    To my knowledge only the first was translated in English.

    in reply to: In Memory of The Fifty! #1829299
    ettrick40
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    I’m in contact with Robert (Bobby)Laumans (350 belgian Sqn)who was one of the men preparing the Great Escape (earth in his pockets).He says that the first part of the film ,before the escape self,tells the truth.
    To Stieglitz.My opinion is that many Belgians are interested by aviation (remember the crowded BAF meetings) BUT there are very few contacts between them.

    LEST WE FORGET,the fifty and the others.

    in reply to: Bridge too far aeroplanes #1556909
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    One of my friends,Leopold HEIMES,air gunner during the BoB at 235 Sqn,was a pilot of C 47 during the film.He told me that he was obliged to make evasive manoeuver during a mass parachute launching.It was because a paratrooper (Mackenzie )was to light.You see his manoeuver on the movie.He was also the pilot of the Dak exploding in flame,behind an embankment.

    in reply to: FAO Snapper…re:609 Typhoon #1561394
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    hello Dave,
    It’s at the “Musée Memorial de la bataille de Normandie”
    Boulevard Fabian Ware
    14400 Bayeux
    tel 00 33 231 92 93 41,Fax 00 33 231 21 85 11
    [email]museedelabataille@free.fr[/email]
    open all the year except the first fourteen days of January
    cheers

    in reply to: FAO Snapper…re:609 Typhoon #1561861
    ettrick40
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    Hello,
    The remains of Balbo’s aircraft are at the Bayeux museum.

    in reply to: Whats YOUR best book of 2003. #1564327
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    For me the best is also Runways to victory.609 at War is also interesting but I regret that the author did’nt give the origin of the pic’s

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