31-03-2008, 11:13 PM
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| Top Moose   Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Under the stairs
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  | Happy 90th Birthday RAF The Royal Air Force (RAF) was formed on 1 April, 1918 when the Army's Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) were amalgamated. Thought I'd wish the RAF a "Happy Birthday" for tomorrow as my Dad, Brother, Uncle, Grandad , various distant-cousins and a Brother-in-law were all in it. |
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01-04-2008, 07:10 AM
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| Legendary Member   Join Date: May 2005 Location: Melbourne, Australia
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| Very happy birthday to the RAF. Thanks for remembering it Owen! The world should never forget the debt paid by those who were involved. From meagre beginnings to being responsible in part at turning back the aggression of Germany, especially in the early years of WW2. Exactly three years later 1st April 1921, the RAAF was born in its own right.
__________________ 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 Last edited by spidge; 01-04-2008 at 06:41 PM. Reason: Addition problems |
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01-04-2008, 09:58 AM
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| Very Senior Member   Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Lancashire, UK
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| An independent air wing over 30 years before the rest of the world. Trenchard was certinally ahead of his time. I dont think the RAF would have been in any position to fight the battle of Britain if they would have had any freedom from the senior services, without Trenchard and his colleages we may well have lost WW2. Kev |
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01-04-2008, 06:48 PM
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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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01-04-2008, 07:59 PM
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| Found this on Time, earlier today. (was actually looking for the time mate!) Some nice photos. The Royal Air Force - Photo Essays - TIME
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01-04-2008, 08:17 PM
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| Happy Birthday, RAF. My dad was in for a long time.
__________________ '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.  |
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01-04-2008, 09:14 PM
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you get the idea spidge, while most armies where playing with balloons and still thought the tank was a fad the RAF was competing for funds. Kev | |
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02-04-2008, 12:37 AM
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The RAAF came into being on 1st April 1921. The father of our Air Force: Richard Williams (RAAF officer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) The RAAF Museum: RAAF Museum: Heritage Gallery
__________________ 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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02-04-2008, 12:44 AM
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| Senior Member   Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: By the mighty Don,no,not the Russian one :)
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| Happy Birthday to the Brylecream boys Great "excuse " to post some family photos. (sorry for crude anti theft squiggles,I hope one day to publish these.....) My Grandfather. Noel,2nd TAF erk with 264 His big brothers Roy and Donald. Various fighter Sqdrns. (yes,thats Ginger Lacey ,Don and Ginger were good mates,both Sgt Pilots with 501 from France through Bof B,unfortunatly I dont know who the third chap is in the N Africa pic.) grandad!2.JPG Roy n Don.JPG donald and ginger2.JPG
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