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23-11-2007, 03:28 PM
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| I Like Tanks   Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Perfidious Albion.
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  | Polish Veterans of Market Garden.
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27-11-2007, 10:01 AM
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| WW2 Veteran  Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: London, England
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| Polish Veterans in Driel Quote:
Back in May 2005 I was interviewed by Stephen Sackur on Hard Talk. On the same interview was Alan Mackowiak a former Polish paratrooper. Did I spot him on the Driel video ? Ron
__________________ If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when? Rabbi Hillel circa 30 BCE  I was "Called-up" in Oct 1942Served as a Wireless-Op with the 49th LAA (78 Div) from Apr 1943 to Dec 1944 (North Africa,Sicily,Italy, Egypt). The Regiment was disbanded in Dec 1944 and I was retrained (in Italy) by the Royal Armoured Corps. Served as a Loader-Op with the 4th QOH from Mar 1945 to Jan 1946 (Italy, Austria, Germany) Finished up as Tech Cpl for "A" Sqdrn. I was "De-mobbed" in Apr 1947 Last edited by Ron Goldstein; 27-11-2007 at 10:06 AM. Reason: typo | |
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27-11-2007, 12:09 PM
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| I Like Tanks Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Perfidious Albion.
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| Rather hard to say Ron, I did think he might be the "shameful!" chap at the very end of the video, was that the same one you suspected?  Cheers, Adam.
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27-11-2007, 01:30 PM
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| Ubique   Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Kent/France
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| Interesting video - thanks Adam.
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27-11-2007, 01:37 PM
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| Adam The chap I spotted was 1mte 27 seconds into the video until 1mte 34 seconds. Go have a look ? Ron
__________________ If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when? Rabbi Hillel circa 30 BCE I was "Called-up" in Oct 1942Served as a Wireless-Op with the 49th LAA (78 Div) from Apr 1943 to Dec 1944 (North Africa,Sicily,Italy, Egypt). The Regiment was disbanded in Dec 1944 and I was retrained (in Italy) by the Royal Armoured Corps. Served as a Loader-Op with the 4th QOH from Mar 1945 to Jan 1946 (Italy, Austria, Germany) Finished up as Tech Cpl for "A" Sqdrn. I was "De-mobbed" in Apr 1947 |
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