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20-08-2007, 11:38 AM
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 | Stop that plane My father, who served on the aircraft carrier HMS Khedive, during WW2, used to tell a story of the time that a plane needed to land on deck, that had no hook to catch onto the arrester cables. After much discussion, it was decided, - 'Right, what we'll do is this. As soon as it touches down, we'll all run out and grab it. That should stop it.' - No health and safety issues then. Recently, when looking through his old photographs, I found one of the actual incident he described. They really did run out and grab it. I've put together a slideshow, featuring this and some others showing 'crash on deck'. Should anybody be interested, it's available at http://www.myverdict.net. You might show your support for the Ghurkas while your there, by voting on the relevant UK question. |
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20-08-2007, 11:45 AM
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  | Great shots Taffd. Welcome. Cheers, Adam.
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20-08-2007, 11:59 AM
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| Welcome to the forum Taffd
__________________ On weald of Kent I watched once more Again I heard that grumbling roar Of fighter planes; yet none were near And all around the sky was clear Borne on the wind a whisper came 'Though men grow old, they stay the same' And then I knew, unseen to eye The ageless Few were sweeping by |
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20-08-2007, 02:01 PM
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| Welcome Taffd, Tell us a bit more about yourself. The Ghurkha's receive unanimous support from forum members here.
__________________ 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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20-08-2007, 02:26 PM
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 | Welcome Taffd, do you know where and when the incident with the Auster occurred? As the Khedive was in the Med and the Far East during the war, it's difficult to tell from the photo. K
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20-08-2007, 05:10 PM
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| Thanks very much for the responses folks. About me? 52 years old, ex-sailor (10 yrs in the RN), now living in Liverpool. The photos in the presentation at myverdict.net were taken in the Far East, in 1945. There is some more memorabilia that I intend to post. I am currently putting together another slideshow which will show, among other things, some signals received by the Khedive, informing the crew of the end of hostilities against the Japanese. It will take a few days before they're posted. My father was a bit of a crooner, in the Bing Crosby mode and used to do shows for the troops. One story he told still brings tears to my eyes. They were giving a concert for the prisoners-of-war, from Changi. So traumatised were these men, that, after the concert, they went back into Changi, seeking some comfort in the familiar, that was that hellhole. I recently received an email from an American, telling me that his father had been repatriated via Singapore and may well have been at that concert. My only regret is that I was unable to complete the slideshow while my father was still alive. He died in July, so this was a bit of a memorial for him. I may do a bio of him and his service and post that aswell. |
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20-08-2007, 05:35 PM
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| Welcome to the website and thanks for the interesting photos!
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20-08-2007, 07:36 PM
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| Welcome to the forum Taffd! Glad to have you with us! Sorry about your dad by the way. That would be pretty cool if you did a biography about him! It sounds like he had a very interesting life!
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