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| Quote: Originally posted by smc66+Aug 8 2005, 09:26 PM--> Quote:
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09-08-2005, 07:00 PM
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| Quote: Originally posted by spidge@Aug 9 2005, 12:33 AM
By the way Dac, are you aware they are trying to change the name of Henderson Field again. They have already renamed it Honiara International / Henderson Field so it wont take much to drop it off the end!
| That would be a shame. My great-uncle was a SeeBee on Guadalcanal and I'm sure he and other veterans would not be happy. A lot of American blood was shed around that airfield, including that of the man it was originally named for.
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09-08-2005, 09:16 PM
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| Quote: Originally posted by angie999+Aug 10 2005, 02:44 AM--> Quote:
(angie999 @ Aug 10 2005, 02:44 AM) Quote:
Originally posted by smc66@Aug 8 2005, 09:26 PM
__________________ 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.)
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10-08-2005, 04:08 AM
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| I guess my question was a little obscure, as there have been no replies.
I'll open the topic so that someone else can post a question.
The answer was- Cactus Airforce, the American code name for Guadalcanal being Cactus.
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"Retreat Hell! We're just attacking in a different direction."
(Major General Oliver P. Smith USMC responding to reporters when asked why the 1st Marines were withdrawing from the Chosin Reservoir, December 1950.)
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10-08-2005, 05:13 AM
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#285 (permalink)
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| Quote: Originally posted by Dac+Aug 10 2005, 03:00 AM--> Quote:
(Dac @ Aug 10 2005, 03:00 AM)
__________________ 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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10-08-2005, 05:21 AM
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| Quote: Originally posted by Dac@Aug 10 2005, 12:08 PM
I guess my question was a little obscure, as there have been no replies.
I'll open the topic so that someone else can post a question.
The answer was- Cactus Airforce, the American code name for Guadalcanal being Cactus.
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As I said in post #280, I knew the answer but laid off and did not think it obscure at all.
To say something is "Cactus" in Australia, (coll) means it is dead, finished, useless.
That is what I was making my reference to.
__________________ 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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10-08-2005, 09:33 AM
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