In the end, the “Dominions” ended up reporting to either Brit, or American commanders.

Unless they flew in 11 Group in the Battle of Britain … ! :diablo:

The sabotage or mistake theme is interesting. Here is a photograph of a bearing from a wartime aircraft in exactly the condition (apart from washing in petrol) it was removed from a sub-assembly. See the problem?

I’ll post full details later but does anybody care to guess which bearing it is?

Missing roller – Merlin Camshaft?

Their command of their version of English was probably rather good:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pijin_language

I hate to burst your bubble but my bet is they went straight to the smelters! Interesting shot of the Mosquito burning that would explain the dump I have been excavating recently.

I wonder … New Zealand used to have no scrap industry and no demand for scrap metal, results being that many older cars were just left to ‘mature’ in the countryside and many of NZ Railways steam locomotives, instead of being broken up for scrap, were dumped into rivers to reinforce the banks (several have been recovered in recent years)

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But not the HE219. However the Germans put little effort into this type since the JU88 and its ilk were plenty fast enough to catch the heavies. If there had been no heavies and lots of Mosquitos there would have been lots more 219s and fewer 88s.

Which in turn may have been countered by a Griffon-powered Mosquito …

Possibly because Harris wanted to drop the maximum tonnage possible on area targets, preferably using the Lancaster.

Could try contacting:
http://www.cmvmag.co.uk/
They may be able to point you at someone or an owners register.

“The Other Few” by Larry Donnelly is a day by day account of the activities of Bomber Command during the period of the Battle of Britain

Thanks for the recommendation – looks interesting, have just ordered a copy.