Should we restore the infrastructure of Iraq – road systems ,political structures , health care and stop the 600,000 plus slaughter of civilians first?

Sorry, ref to Saddam’s massacres, or just gobbing off about something that you know little about? Your wish list for re-construction has been underway since 2003, just because the media chose not to report it doesn’t mean it’s not happening

In this month’s Flypast there is an item on bits of a post-war Mosquito being dug-up around Coltishall. Is there anyone from that team posting here and do they want another pair of hands?

If the PPruners are RAF or ex-RAF

Not exclusivly so, many RN and Army too

May just be a case of inter-service rivalry

I wouldn’t say so as some of his biggest critics are RN

http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=176418&highlight=Sharkey

100 years plus cataloguing experience between us maybe…

Suitably back in my box them………

So you don’t think a recruitment film can be seen as a piece of propaganda then?

It’s a recruiting film – what do you expect? A full and frank discussion of the shortcomings of the Lightning F1? Propaganda? I tend to save that for ‘Triumph of the Will’ kind of stuff – you could see almost anything as propaganda if you really want, if your definition is lose enough. The East Germans used to look on BFBS television as propaganda, East Enders and Corrie bringing the decadent west into the comrades’ homes

Oi Fish-heads NO! Get your thieving mits off our aircraft! Go play with your grey boats and leave the flying to professionals (and 3 Sqn) :p

I often suspect that is why some western countries were a little tardy in their approach to pursuing Nazi war criminals

If so (The Gehlen organisation springs to mind) the same is true of the Soviets, just check-out the fate of ‘useful’ Nazis in the Soviet Union including scientists, intelligence departments and weapons production specialists that were spirited away in 1945 and politically useful proxies in their zone of control were forgiven their past, if it suited Moscow- I believe many of the medium level Nazis that had a sudden conversion to communism were know as ‘red/browns’ – red on the outside, still brown on the inside.
And while we’re on the subject what was the difference between the Hitler Youth and the Young Pioneers in east Germany? The YP wore blue!

http://www.fas.org/irp/world/germany/intro/gehlen.htm

……and remember, don’t drink and post! yep, Annington and John Major 😮

SHQ, SMC, the Guard room, the decontam room by education, the messes, the singlies blocks, 25 yard open air pool (if you remove the greenhouse) the hangars, all 1930s/40s – not sure about ATC and the Jag sim/int def late 1960s/early 1970s

Ohhh and the lovely ‘b’ and ‘c’ class quarters with their cammo finish and air raid shelters……nice