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  • July 14, 2013 at 9:32 am in reply to: Some Of Our Airmen Are No Longer Missing #933090
    Jim C
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    This is a good one – ‘Night Bombers’
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujLVIlESNGE

    July 13, 2013 at 10:06 pm in reply to: Some Of Our Airmen Are No Longer Missing #933320
    Jim C
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    Thanks for the link Dave, just finished watching. There were quite a few good documentaries around at that time as I recall, such as The Watchtower with Jack Currie.

    It would be interesting to know what happened to the wreckage and artefacts recovered. Maybe on display somewhere in Holland?

    June 9, 2013 at 1:14 am in reply to: Air Speed Calibrator #968062
    Jim C
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    Thanks for the info ret-eng.

    If any museum would like to have for display please let me know 🙂

    June 2, 2013 at 10:12 pm in reply to: mosquito gun cocking toggles #974580
    Jim C
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    This is the gun loading tool Denis mentioned –

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    Looks like it could be off a Browning though . . .

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    January 14, 2013 at 9:00 pm in reply to: Tracing relatives #963804
    Jim C
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    Do you have your father’s birth certificate to see if his father’s name is on it? If you let me know your grandmother’s maiden name I’ll have a look on Ancestry for you, may find a few clues 🙂

    January 12, 2013 at 9:27 pm in reply to: Airfield photos – 'Then and Now' #967060
    Jim C
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    A couple more from Hunsdon –

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    December 14, 2012 at 9:42 pm in reply to: Last Of The Ten Fighter Boys #1009313
    Jim C
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    Thanks Denis, should be working now.

    December 14, 2012 at 7:46 pm in reply to: Flying Logbooks Should NEVER Be Destroyed. #1009503
    Jim C
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    From the RAF Museum’s website –

    We are often asked whether we hold a specific person’s log book. When aircrew were reported missing their effects were collected together and held in a central depository. Whilst in most cases their property was later handed over to next of kin, unclaimed logbooks were retained by the Air Ministry. By 1959, these unclaimed logbooks covered some 6500 feet of shelving. It was decided that representative samples would be preserved in the Public Record Office and the remainder destroyed at the end of 1960. This decision was announced in the Press and a number of people claimed logbooks. But the vast majority were destroyed, ironically just a few years before the RAF Museum was founded.

    http://http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/research/default/archive-collection/aircrew-logbooks.aspx

    October 19, 2012 at 10:02 pm in reply to: Battle of Britain Pilot – Plt/Off Alfred Eric DAVIES #1005970
    Jim C
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    Hello Andy,

    Had a quick look on the Ancestry website and it seems that Alfred Davies’ widow remarried in June 1941 to a Bernard Ough in Bridgenorth.
    She died in Jan 2004 in Cheltenham. Her maiden name was Yandrell if it’s any help.
    Alfred’s mother’s maiden name was Balleny and it seems that he was an only child.

    I’ll have another search tomorrow to see if I can turn up any more info.

    Well done in your efforts to get the road named after P/O Davies by the way 🙂

    September 29, 2012 at 9:54 am in reply to: Mossie KA114 #1035137
    Jim C
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    http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/warbird-flies-again-video-5108120 🙂

    September 29, 2012 at 9:54 am in reply to: Mossie KA114 #1022395
    Jim C
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    http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/warbird-flies-again-video-5108120 🙂

    September 27, 2012 at 10:33 pm in reply to: Mossie KA114 #1023554
    Jim C
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    Absolutely brilliant. Well done to all those involved 🙂

    September 27, 2012 at 10:33 pm in reply to: Mossie KA114 #1036690
    Jim C
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    Absolutely brilliant. Well done to all those involved 🙂

    May 25, 2012 at 4:59 pm in reply to: Aircrew Memorial #1016590
    Jim C
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    That’s great. Well done to all those involved 🙂

    April 20, 2012 at 11:19 pm in reply to: "War Digs With Harry Harris" #1064757
    Jim C
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    Excellent programme, congrats to all involved.
    Will there be any footage of the funeral and/or interviews with Sgt Smith’s family at a later date?

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