Was not being too serious with the Arado story,but I always found enemy a/c testing a fascinating subject : )
Certainly a one way trip could be a possibility !
What would have been the range of a ‘long range’ 109 variant such as a 109 G-4/R3 ?which could carry 2x 300 ltr droppers !

from Airrecce

Approx. another 93 miles per tank.

No real sight of any insignia to determine who they are, although the two soldiers on the left of the picture with white markings on the helmets would be beach engineers.

Omaha Beach, survivors from sunken LCI.
So would be members of the untested 29th Infantry Division.
U.S. Army Rangers or the battle-hardened 1st Infantry.

Stands to reason that there would be older soldiers there, the regulars who had trained up the conscripts NCOs etc. There would be no way that they would stay at home while their boys went into battle.
Possible why more older soldiers are in the picture is that they would have made sure that they had got their boys off first (Who were that much nimbler and would be further up the beach). then with them being older and in the water longer would need more help to get ashore.

Wellington Z8397 PH

A marble plaque inscribed with the names of the dead and featuring their squadron crest is to be unveiled at the California Tavern on October 10 at 3pm.

Sgt A E Cosgrove, Sgt L S Dunlop, F/Sgt A A Nordon, Sgt A Pilkington, Sgt R H Todman, Sgt F H N Tothill.

http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/plaque_to_honour_bomber_crew_who_died_on_california_sands_1_4230740

Looks like 5 holed shakers started in Gateshead around 2008, now down to Lincolnshire.
Beware its spreading rapidly. :highly_amused:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1030164/Now-health-safety-cut-number-holes-chip-shop-salt-shakers.html

Thought the wreck of HMS Hood was a war grave?

I seem to recall a survivor of the Titanic was taken down to view the wreck that she was too young to remember sailing on and told that in order not to desecrate the site they could not bring up a tea cup that was laying on the sea bed; the remains of HMS Ark Royal is designated a war grave although only one man lost his life. If there is the chance of human remains being found then – usually – permission to dig up aircraft wreckage is withheld.
Yet if you are a multi-millionaire with connections then a little thing like respect for the grave site appears to get forgotten about rather quickly.

The Protection of Military remains Act 1986 is An Act to secure the protection from unauthorised interference of the remains of military aircraft and vessels that have crashed, sunk or been stranded.

So in fact it has nothing to do with a war grave of people.

It also has nothing to do with being a multi-millionaire with connections then a little thing like respect for the grave site appears to get forgotten about rather quickly.

The Bell was also not attached to the main hull of the ship.
and the recovery was Authorised.

Guess there is always someone who wants to muddy the water.

Just an update on Phyllis’s Music training

Awarded an L.R.A.M. in 1925, for piano teaching.

She studied on a Teacher training course in 1938 and 1939 at R.A.M.

Piano was her first study, with Edwin York Bowen

(Edwin York Bowen (22 February 1884 – 23 November 1961) was an English composer and pianist. Bowen’s musical career spanned more than fifty years during which time he wrote over 160 works. As well as being a pianist and composer, Bowen was a talented conductor, organist, violist and horn player. Despite achieving considerable success during his lifetime, many of the composer’s works remained unpublished and unperformed until after his death in 1961. Bowen’s compositional style is widely considered as ‘Romantic’ and his works are often characterized by their rich harmonic language. He was one of the most notable English composers of piano music of his time.)

Aural and rhythm with Dr Frederick Shinn.

(In 1893 Dr Frederick Shinn, a recent graduate from the Royal College of Music, was appointed organist and choirmaster of St Bartholomew’s, a post he held until just before his death in 1950.There is a memorial to Dr Shinn near the organ in St Bartholomew’s. Lewisham.)

Music History with J.A. Westrup.

(Sir Jack Westrup (26 July 1904 – 21 April 1975) was an English musicologist, writer, teacher and occasional conductor and composer.)

There are other studies listed, which are abbreviated to a single letter, and I’m speculating as to what they might be: D. (Divinity?/ Deportment?) with Mr Moore, P (physical education?) with Mr Radcliffe, D (again) with Mr Roberts and L.S., or C.S. (choral studies?) with Leslie Regan.

Her address at the time was Tortington Park Arundel Sussex.
Thanks to Kathy Adamson R.A.M. Library.

Horse hunting……brilliant…I’m up for it, that…..and cyclists.

John Wayne’s the man you need for the cyclists.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeijLNHzyRo&feature=youtu.be