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21-08-2007, 12:31 PM
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 | 21st august 1944 James Clift my uncle R.I.P At 06.40 on the 21st August 1944 HMS Kite was hit on the starboard side aft by two torpedoes from German U boat U344. Kite was the third ship Jimmy had served on, the previous two also having been torpedoed, however this time he was not lucky enough to be one of the fourteen survivors picked up by HMS Keppel. The U boat did not get away with it, at 08 - 30 hrs on 22nd August 1944 she was bombed by a Fairey Swordfish plane and sunk with all hands lost, the pilot was Gordon Bennett. Casualties on HMS Kite were 217 Jimmy's body was never recovered. His resting place is off Greenland at (D/R) 73- 01N 03- 57E. He was 21 years old.
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21-08-2007, 12:50 PM
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21-08-2007, 12:57 PM
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__________________ 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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__________________ 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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