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Old 11-08-2007, 05:27 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by David Layne View Post
Spidge, when the Australian aircrews came over how much training had they received? Would the picture I have posted contain Australians, Canadians, South Africans etc? In my ignorance I had presumed they all came from the home countries.
There are some surnames the same however it would be difficult to say without the Christian names to cross reference.
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You chose dishonor and you will have war."

(Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.)

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