Thanks deegy. Sorry to hear the 157 Sqn records are gone – 🙁
I saw the Sunderland one “somewhere on the net” recently – think it was on some kind of Conspiracy Theorist site.
Don’t have the link, logged off ASAP – didn’t want to be kidnapped by aliens and “probed”… (‘Turrrrrn yourrrrrrrr head and cough, earrrrrrrrrrthlinggggggg.’)
http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2402395
http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2718160
via the most excellent
http://www.hut-six.co.uk/cgi-bin/search39-47.php
Let me know what else you find.
Maybe try over here:
http://disc.yourwebapps.com/Indices/169401.html
Not a lot of traffic there, but the folks who do post generally know their stuff.
Great find, thanks.
I thought the Germans also had a wire-trailing rocket for defence against low-level attacks? Could have sworn a 605 Sqn aircraft made it back to base with a large chuck of one wing sliced neatly off.
The 461 Squadron ORB is online at:
http://www.naa.gov.au/collection/recordsearch.aspx
Click on “Search Now as a guest user”, type “461 Squadron” into the “Keywords (or name)” box, then click search.
82 records come up. Click display. You’ll see that some of them are digitised for online viewing.
Click on the one you want – make sure to choose “Enlarge”
So far as I know, Hitler’s bunker itself is still under an anonymous piece of waste land.
Rochus Misch, the telephonist in Downfall, still lives in Berlin. Recently got himself into trouble by suggesting that some sort of marker be put up over the spot. Focus for the revisionists, etc etc.
The Mossie pic might also have been taken at, of all places, Clark Field in the Philippines.
A52-505 was one of two aircraft sent there at the end of March 1945 for comparative trials against allied and Japanese aircraft, though the trials may not have taken place.
The squadron were based at Kingaroy in Queensland before heading to Morotai and then to Labuan.
The ORB is actually available online at the Australian archives
Let me add my sincere condolences to those above – I still refer to your father’s books constantly.
Blue Skies Chaz Bowyer.
So far as I know, the phrase “en grandeur nature” means life-size. The pic does strike me as small though – foreshortening?
meh – this site says it’s 3/4 scale.
You might have a squizzo here:
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/lait/site/index.htm
or here:
http://www.south-lancs-aviation.co.uk/
(as I’m not quite sure what counts as South Lancashire…)
Last I heard, Heinz Roekker was still with us, and very active re: info on wartime ops.
You might try over at the Luftwaffe Experten Message Board, or try to track down Erich Brown, who posts hither and thither.
You might find Roekker’s book with a wee google-fu on: Roekker NJG 2 .
He might also spell it Rökker, though I do think he uses the e.
Edit – you might also try the “German Night Fighter War 1939 – 1945” board.
Thanks Atcham!
re: Mosquito designator letters
Yet another keeper of a post – thanks!
Re: the Mosquito designator letters, ahead of the ’98” – is there a list somewhere of the relevant sub-assemblies? I could swear Juergen Haus once posted one over at mossie.org, but I’m, er, confounded if I can find it.
I mean, A=? K=?