Hi folks

chipmunk wallah · 02-04-2008, 01:10 AM

Hi everyone
Just a little introduction as to who I am.
Ive been interested in the whole history of 39-45 for as long as I can remember,sort of seems ingrained from childhood as mum and me lived with my Grandparents when I was a nipper.
I know enough to know I dont know enough but always glad to help and always keen to learn more.
I have in the past,and maybe again someday,also been involved in the living history side of things,starting initialy with doing veterens events as a teenager(not that I reenacted a teenager,I was one...no,I only reenact being a teen now Im in my 30s

),D Day 40 etc then moving on to join a few groups( Both "dark side" and Allied).
Special interests include RAF from family conections,Market Garden ,the war in the East from the RKKA perspective and Polands underground Armies,especialy Armia Krajowa in the Warsaw Uprising.
all the best
(btw,Chipmunk wallah is from my Air Cadet days,the lovely old Chippie is the only 'plane Ive actually flown,though,at 14 and 15 obviously not solo

)

dbf · 02-04-2008, 01:28 AM

Hi
Only just joined myself.
Where did you get that photo you posted up for Unit ID then?

chipmunk wallah · 02-04-2008, 03:00 AM

Hi DBF
York race course had a militaria fair ,I must have been about 16 when I got it(32 now) probably paid about 50p for it. Ive a few others like it , mostly Russian or Polish with a couple of NKVD photos of germans used just postwar to hunt aleged crims !.
But most of my wartime photos are family pics Ive been entrusted with to keep for future generations(going back to my G Grandfathers pre ww1 days with the Aand S highlanders on the North West Frontier

)

Owen · 02-04-2008, 08:59 AM

I wondered when you'd introduce yourself formally.
Is there a Polish family connection or is that just an interest you picked up ?

Gotthard Heinrici · 02-04-2008, 11:09 AM

Hello Chipmunk and glad to have you hear. You've been making yourself at home and thats just how we like our members to feel!

chipmunk wallah · 02-04-2008, 01:55 PM

Hi,thanks both,
Nope,no family connection,just an interest picked up,I suppose probably from the amount of Polish veterens who ended up in my neck of the woods after the war.
Yes,so far its been cool here,like a nice comphy pair of slippers

Peter Clare · 02-04-2008, 02:51 PM

Hi Chipmunk.

Welcome to the forum hope you enjoy it here.

Gage · 03-04-2008, 11:05 PM

Hi CW, welcome and enjoy (as you already have).

chipmunk wallah · 03-04-2008, 11:38 PM

Hi Peter, Hi Gage(did you spot my reply in the battle of britain section gage?)

02-04-2008, 01:10 AM	#1 (permalink)
chipmunk wallah Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: By the mighty Don,no,not the Russian one :) Posts: 175	Hi folks Hi everyone Just a little introduction as to who I am. Ive been interested in the whole history of 39-45 for as long as I can remember,sort of seems ingrained from childhood as mum and me lived with my Grandparents when I was a nipper. I know enough to know I dont know enough but always glad to help and always keen to learn more. I have in the past,and maybe again someday,also been involved in the living history side of things,starting initialy with doing veterens events as a teenager(not that I reenacted a teenager,I was one...no,I only reenact being a teen now Im in my 30s ),D Day 40 etc then moving on to join a few groups( Both "dark side" and Allied). Special interests include RAF from family conections,Market Garden ,the war in the East from the RKKA perspective and Polands underground Armies,especialy Armia Krajowa in the Warsaw Uprising. all the best (btw,Chipmunk wallah is from my Air Cadet days,the lovely old Chippie is the only 'plane Ive actually flown,though,at 14 and 15 obviously not solo ) __________________ "I don't know a lot about anything - but I know a little about practically everything." Vincent Price in "Laura" 1944.(avatar,the gorgeous Miss Gene Tierney

02-04-2008, 03:00 AM	#3 (permalink)
chipmunk wallah Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: By the mighty Don,no,not the Russian one :) Posts: 175	Hi DBF York race course had a militaria fair ,I must have been about 16 when I got it(32 now) probably paid about 50p for it. Ive a few others like it , mostly Russian or Polish with a couple of NKVD photos of germans used just postwar to hunt aleged crims !. But most of my wartime photos are family pics Ive been entrusted with to keep for future generations(going back to my G Grandfathers pre ww1 days with the Aand S highlanders on the North West Frontier ) __________________ "I don't know a lot about anything - but I know a little about practically everything." Vincent Price in "Laura" 1944.(avatar,the gorgeous Miss Gene Tierney

02-04-2008, 11:09 AM	#5 (permalink)
Gotthard Heinrici Pog mo thon Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 4,019	Hello Chipmunk and glad to have you hear. You've been making yourself at home and thats just how we like our members to feel! __________________ *"The Eastern front is like a house of cards. If the front is broken through at one point all the rest will collapse."* - General Heinz Guderian

02-04-2008, 01:55 PM	#6 (permalink)
chipmunk wallah Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: By the mighty Don,no,not the Russian one :) Posts: 175	Hi,thanks both, Nope,no family connection,just an interest picked up,I suppose probably from the amount of Polish veterens who ended up in my neck of the woods after the war. Yes,so far its been cool here,like a nice comphy pair of slippers __________________ "I don't know a lot about anything - but I know a little about practically everything." Vincent Price in "Laura" 1944.(avatar,the gorgeous Miss Gene Tierney

02-04-2008, 02:51 PM	#7 (permalink)
Peter Clare Legendary Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Neverland Posts: 5,667	Hi Chipmunk. Welcome to the forum hope you enjoy it here. __________________ 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

02-04-2008, 01:28 AM	#2 (permalink)
dbf Silly old moo Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Co Down, Northern Ireland Posts: 947	Hi Only just joined myself. Where did you get that photo you posted up for Unit ID then?

02-04-2008, 08:59 AM	#4 (permalink)
Owen Grumpy Old Moose Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Under the stairs Posts: 9,485	I wondered when you'd introduce yourself formally. Is there a Polish family connection or is that just an interest you picked up ?

03-04-2008, 11:05 PM	#8 (permalink)
Gage Battle of Barking Creek Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Somewhere in Time Posts: 1,375	Hi CW, welcome and enjoy (as you already have). __________________ 'There I stood at the bar, wearing a Mae West, no jacket, and beginning to leak blood from my torn boot. None of the golfers took any notice of me - after all, I wasn't a member!' Kenneth Lee - after being shot down on the 18th August 1940. John McClane: "Come out to the coast, we'll get together, have a few laughs..." Avatar: SOE (F Section) agent Andree Borrel murdered at Natzweiler Camp 6th July 1944.

03-04-2008, 11:38 PM	#9 (permalink)
chipmunk wallah Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: By the mighty Don,no,not the Russian one :) Posts: 175	Hi Peter, Hi Gage(did you spot my reply in the battle of britain section gage?) __________________ "I don't know a lot about anything - but I know a little about practically everything." Vincent Price in "Laura" 1944.(avatar,the gorgeous Miss Gene Tierney

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