(Here might be a good time to point out that the RAF roundel looks like a target. Did the Luftwaffe ever send Whitehall a thank-you note?):diablo:

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yes !! very simmilar to the one we sent thanking them for the cross hairs !!

Probably all members of The IJNMC(Imperial Japanese Navy Motoring Club) Divine Wind Section.

always wondered !! if one returned did he get bo**ocked for not doing his job properly ??

good to see there’s still the kamikazi spirit !!

It is true but lots of pilots were shot at by lots of people…..not all of them the enemy! 😉

quite often poles got a hard time off us cos we thaught they were germans ……..sureley you would have thaught the uniform spitfire or hurricane was a decent clue !!

it happened often , i suppose the thinking was an aircraft can be replaced fairly easily , the pilot was the important thing to stop getting back up

i suppose most would have been gentlemen but not all

wars war and not all stick to the norm tactics had changed from the gentlemanly wave of ww1

i was once caught up in an explosion , i used to work in microbiology making blood cultures , the stuff in bottles that they inject blood tests into , to grow the apropriate nasty !!

part of the procedure was to autoclave them in superheated steam to steralise the product

being winter the doors to the working area were wide open to allow the staff to keep cool

unfortunately the cold air hit the superheated bottles there were a couple of pops and i didn’t need further warning i leant the mop up i was using and started to leg it just in time for a roar like afterburners as about 1000 bottles exploded in less than a second

i turned back to go back in after the explosion had finnished and the scary part was not knowing if my mates had made it out the room was full of steam and it seamed like an age for it to clear so i could check

luckily we all did but none of us got away without being bloodied

later i surveyed the mop handle that was left where i was standing it was ripped to shreads by the glass

although we didn’y get time to contenplate too much as dave came in and said ” you’re meant to put gellatine in it not gellegnite ya daft fe**ers !!”

i look at it like this if your staying in a job till you drop , you are stopping the natural progression of letting youth start at the bottom

knowledge is no good if it isn’t being passed on

but in our employment pattern of companies and jobs being here today gone today job knowledge is of little importance

proved by going into any camera , electrical or practicaly any shop where you ask for information about a product and are faced with a blank stare 99% of the time !!

Am I right in thinking that Wilson was once a Car Dealer, and got “Done” for clocking cars?:eek:
Talk about poacher turned gamekeeper.
IF true that is.
Jim.
Lincoln .7

he certaily was !! think his dealership was wilsons tardis time machines or something simmilar