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November 11, 2005 at 11:42 am in reply to: No 75 OTU North Africa #1413096

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Patrick,

It is Z4693 a Hurricane 1, which served in the Middle East and was struck off charge in 1945′

Z4893 did not exist.

Glyn

Hi Glyn – How did you come by this information? I have just e-mailed the RAF museum in London as they keep many aircraft records.

I would dearly like to know more if you have any information to hand.

Regards,

Pat.

November 11, 2005 at 11:23 am in reply to: No 75 OTU North Africa #1413113

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Morning All,

As an aside to the project that I am currently workingon , can anyone help me with the attached photo.

The serial number looks like Z4893 or could it be Z4693?

How would I go about trying to find information about this particular plane?

I’m trying to put some stories to most if not all of the photos and this would be as good a starting point as any.

Any and all help would be gratefully appreciated.

Regards,

Patrick.

November 10, 2005 at 7:29 pm in reply to: No 75 OTU North Africa #1414392

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Evening All, seriously folks……many thanks once again.

I’ll guess I’ll never find out the truth behind a lot of these photos and why they appear in the album. Maybe they were collected during the period of the war, given by other people or sent in the post, who knows?

Now all I need to do is to collate all the data and information I have gathered so far and update the pics on my website.

But by all means, please keep the information flowing, the more the better.

I sent another request to the National Archives, as the copies of the operational record book that they sent me only detailed when the OTU was setup in December 1942 through to 30th June 1943. But they came back to me and said that that was all they had. So I still need to know what happened afterwards. If anyone can help or point me in another direction then it would be gratefully appreciated.

Many Thanks,

Pat.

November 10, 2005 at 4:42 pm in reply to: No 75 OTU North Africa #1414781

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Hi All,

I know this is an avaition forum but the following photograph is proving to be a bit of a mystery to me at the moment – http://www.pobrien.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/pages/104_st%20georgia%20battleship.htm

As you can see, and as I have mentioned before, I can only go by the inscriptions that are either written below the photos in the album or that are written on the back of the photos themselves.

In this case, photo 104 reads ‘St. Georgia Battleship’??? As I have since been informed (thanks to Roger Smith for supplying the correct info for the photograph) the vessel is actually the famous ‘Graf Spee’ from the Battle of the River Plate.

The following website gives details of a book written about the boat as well as it’s captain, H.W. Langsdorff.
http://www.grafspee.com/

The photo appears to be genuine, but why would it be in this collection of photographs? I don’t think for a minute that it is unique, could it have been massed produced and handed out amongst the men or been available for purchase? I feel an e-mail to the author might be in order.

Regards,

Pat.

November 10, 2005 at 9:53 am in reply to: No 75 OTU North Africa #1415464

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Morning All,

I just need to confirm a couple of things.

Pics 93 & 94. Are they Bf or Me designation? Or is this one of those where it doesn’t really matter. I seem to recall that Bf 109 was the official designation, since the design was from the Bayerische Flugzeugwerke (spelling?) company. But because the company was renamed to Messerschmitt, did some of the later aircraft actually carry the Me 109 designation?

Pic 102. As I mention, I can only go by the inscriptions that are in the album below the photo or on the back of the photos themselves. In this case it simply reads ‘Russian Tanks’. However, Starfire identifies the tanks as German Panzer I A or B. Could this be the case, as they certainly look like Russian soldiers? Would they have commandeered the tanks after the German surrender / defeat.

Once again, many many thanks for all your help so far. I’m slowly starting to piece this puzzle together.

Kind Regards,

Patrick.

November 9, 2005 at 11:06 pm in reply to: No 75 OTU North Africa #1415836

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Evening All,

I have to say a massive thankyou to everyone who has chipped in so far!

The photos were in an album, a lot of them had inscriptions on the back as well as on the pages they were attached too. I’m in the process of adding these to their respective pages at the moment. Some of the spelling in the album is a bit dubious so I’m checking that too, hence me putting a ? next to some of the photos that I am unsure about.

Many thanks again.

Regards,

Patrick.
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