I spent some time chatting to one of the old guys at a local garden centre a couple of years ago after buying a poppy. He was incredibly modest about the things he’d done, but it absolutely made my day to be able to spend some time with him talking. As I was about to leave, he mentioned that he was glad that at least someone seemed to care these days. Unfortunately I had to be somewhere else shortly afterwards otherwise I’d have happily sat down and spent the rest of the day with him.

Andy

This is one of the sites I help with – glad to hear that it is being looked at!

Andy

Images

There are quite a few images on the Museum-Explorer site at http://www.museum-explorer.org.uk/show.php?page=exhibit&c=5&m=12&y=31&e=375&t=5 – most of them are images from the time it was having work carried out on it at Duxford.

Andy

Does anyone know what the music is used for the first half of the video?

Andy

[Pedant] Do note that if you are going to do an electronic search, there is no ‘e’ in Mosquitos, unless you are referring to the insect. [/Pedant]

And there I was thinking it was just me spelling it without the ‘e’!

Mosquito tyre size

Tony Agar tells me that the Mosquito tyres are “1500 by 16” – I hope that helps!

If you need more information, let me know and I’ll see what I can find out.

Andy

I feel that photos such as those shown earlier in this thread are important – Too often photos such as these are not shown as people feel that they are too terrible to be shown. I feel the opposite, it is important to show them to demonstrate just how awful war can be.

Yes, they do typically show the last few terrified moments of life of those in the aircraft in question, but to ignore them, or to pretend that they don’t exist would be wrong in my opinion.

I agree also that we must be careful where images such as these are used.

Trying to imagine what must have been going through the minds of those aboard the aircraft in the photos has brought a lump to my throat and has made me feel ill. I’m happier feeling that though than feeling nothing.

Andy