Sort of on topic (ish)

Not sure if this has been posted before, my apology’s if it has, but recently discovered cine film shot right after the dams raid, in German, but you’ll get the drift I’m sure.

http://www.hr-online.de/website/fernsehen/sendungen/video_archiv5300.jsp?key=standard_document_37806832&jmpage=1&type=v&r=7&rubrik=5300&t=20090825&y=2009&jm=6&mediakey=fs/hessenschau/20090825_hs_zerstoerung_edertalsperre

& an appraisal from a mate of mine who speaks very good German

The Eder dam film footage was very good. The footage was shot by a marine officer on home leave who had been an amatuer cameraman for 30 years , this was taken one hour after the attack by our brave blue jobs ! 47 people died in the immediate area , the 1st village down stream from the Eder dam had a loss of 10 civilian deaths plus livestock, with particuler damage to the school and church (propagander) . The man with the camera was the son of the camera man ,the camera and the roll of film are originals however the camera started to go a bit **** up in the 50s so he took it too his friend a Herr Shaffer who fixed it for him and noticed the film of the Eder dam , he asked his friend if he could have a copy, which he granted on condition that he does’n’t show anyone the film while he was still alive . The camera and film outlasted the camera man !

A picture of XM715 getting some off road action at St Mawgan at the 1975 airday can be found on page 83 of Robert Jacksons V Bombers book 😉

& a couple more, much earlier, maybe late 50’s?

Somewhere on the web there is a lovely shot of south pan taken from a Nimrod taking off, you can see the the two T.19s parked next to each other.

These ones Pagey?

I nicked these off some guy called Commander Powell, I sort of remember they weren’t his shots either so I have no idea if they have any copyright attached to them, I’ll remove them at the first wiff of a complaint.

The panic situation would have had him rolling with laughter.

heh heh heh:) I remember that, bought a smile to my face too.

I belive it might be 😀 – listed in Shackleton WR977 – Dedication To Duty as WR977!

Well I did send a copy of it to Rob for the book plus a shed load of log book scans;)

From the records I had at the time & Dads (unfortunately now departed this mortal coil) input we deduced that 977 was the most likely candidate, when examining the nose code it appears to be B.

I’m not that up on aircraft serials at all but does R5868 mean anything? I had heard that that airframe was returning to the air.

Only joking:o:D

I was lucky enough to go to work with Dad on a few occasions & got quite a few Nimrod Sim hours in, at first the whole thing was about reliable as British Rail, the massive tape data banks putting Star Trek to shame, the old man likened working there to being on the dole, he’d phone up in the morning to see if it was working, if it wasn’t he’d spend the rest of the day at home.