Bob Doe – skilled pilot, seems a nice chap and comes across as a modest hero in interviews

A very nice chap at an undisclosed location let me rob some panels from a dieing fast-jet – never thought I’d be sad to see this particular type go….the moral of the story is that when an aircraft is being scrapped ‘rob first, wonder what you’re going to do with the bits later’

Well they did produce Fw-190s under Templehof if that’s any help…..

Get real !! Do you think that the Soviet engineers were so stupid as to ‘build-in’ the bullet holes – just because they were afraid of Stalin ????

Carm down!

One of the engineers who made the copy said that’s exactly what happened – and as he’s a primary source………

I don’t think Dev was a fool and he had a very difficult time trying to hold the country together during the ‘Emergency’. Perhaps he was just what Ireland needed (much as it pains me to say it 😮 )

He was a sharp political operator and could be ruthless when required – check out what happened to Michael Collins, who he may, or may not have sold out – and also the number of ‘irredeemable’ IRA men he had executed. Then again Civil-wars are never nice.

I thought thw walrus pilot was trying to join the RAF? (sez so in my IAC decal sheet!)

Moggy,
there was an article a good while back in Flypast (I think) about the RAF’s role in Palistine where they said on at least one of those incidents the guns hadn’t been cocked, and this was deliberate policy rather than the armours being gash. Net result, at least one pilot was killed. The policy was then changed…..

OK, let’s look at this,

you are saying that some people have no place in our memories, so presumably one mustn’t talk about the SS, the Black and Tans or ‘B’ Specials for example, as it’s easier to whitewash the past than to face the difficult questions. It’s trite but those who forget the past…..

Don’t know why you chose the inflammatory word ‘blithely’ either, I call it giving due credit.

And the explanation that many Irish crossed the water during the war to work (as opposed to those who came to join the British Armed forces) for the money comes from an Irish historian….can’t find the book at the moment but he’s not alone in his thoughts on this. (alt source my mother-in-law!)

Taking umbrige isn’t going to change the facts.

Edited to add: This seems a good overview, and makes the point about money flowing back to the poorer famalies in the South, which kind of makes the economic point

http://www.reform.org/TheReformMovement_files/article_files/articles/war.htm