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More on Rathmines: Air Force News :: Top Stories They were led by Sir Richard Kingsland, a former Commanding Officer of No. 20 SQN. In 1942 Sir Richard took a Catalina into Japanese-held Rabaul, flew through a curtain of anti-aircraft fire to bomb a wharf, and returned home unscathed.
Earlier, in 1940, he flew a Sunderland flying boat to Morocco where he brazenly rescued the Allied Commander-in-Chief Lord Gort and Britain’s Information Minister Duff Cooper, who had been captured by the Vichy French.
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------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html
"You were given the choice between war and dishonor.
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.)
What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site:
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