27-01-2007, 01:10 AM
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 | RAF Hurricanes in Russia
__________________ Spidge,  ------------------------------------------------------- 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: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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27-01-2007, 01:22 AM
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 | Not everyone thought sending (or rather diverting) the Hurricanes to Russia was a good idea. From Probert's "The Forgotten Air Force"
__________________ _______________________________________ Squadron Leader Pujji - Audio Interviews (half way down the page) |
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27-01-2007, 01:41 AM
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 | Minor correction - HMS Argus already had a full-length flight-deck and was operating aircraft before the end of WW1
__________________ for heathen heart that puts its trust in reeking tube and iron shard all valiant dust that builds on dust and guarding, calls not thee to guard thy mercy on thy people, Lord (Kipling) |
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27-01-2007, 06:03 AM
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British Navy Ships--HMS Argus (1918-1946) This Argus footage would be rare! YouTube - HMS Argus (I49)
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- 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: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm | |
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27-01-2007, 09:06 AM
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| That's a great site, Spidge. The other articles are just as interesting. The information on land-lease in the documents section is massive!
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