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| WW2 Museums. Events, & places to see. Been to any good museums lately? Or maybe a WW2 related show? Anything that's not strictly a battlefield visit, tell us about it or ask for information here. |
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30-05-2008, 07:49 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Lancashire
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 | Assault Glider Project They have their next open days over the weekend of 5/6 July at RAF Shawbury in Shropshire. I've been before and it is quite a good day out and you get to see a full size Horsa glider...... You can find info on their website..... |
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30-05-2008, 10:44 AM
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| Very Senior Member   Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: just around the corner
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| I'm very tempted to go. Unfortunately it clashes with the RAF Waddington airshow, and with Beltring coming up funds are limited.
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30-05-2008, 11:02 AM
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| Ostfront is where its at!   Join Date: Apr 2004
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| And I'm in the wrong country  . Would have been interesting to see it.
__________________ "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 "With amazement and disappointment, we discovered in late October and early November that the beaten Russians seemed quite unaware that as a military force they had almost ceased to exist." - General Blumentritt "In all my years as a soldier, I have never seen me fight so hard." Lieutenant General Wilhelm Bittrich - Commander of II SS Panzer Korps - (Commenting on the British Paratroopers at Arnhem) - September 1944 "Had Clark given more heed to Juin's views...the savage battles of Cassino would probably never have been fought and the venerable house of St Benedict would have been unscathed" Rudolf Böhmler - 1st Fallschirmjäger Division - 1944 (After the bombing of Monte Cassino) |
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30-05-2008, 05:08 PM
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| Senior Member   Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Birmingham
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| Thanks to AM for the Advert. See here for location map. Gates open at 10.00 both days. Minibus 'shuttle' onto the base. All hangars open, so lots of helicopters! Of course, the most important hangar will be the AGT's! Horsa, CG-4A, Tiger Moth. Our Dak will be outside on the hardstand. I don't know much about the flying display, but I know the RN Historic Flight Swordfish will be there on the Satuday. More details as I get them. Looking forward to seeing any Forum Members who can make it. Steve W. |
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31-05-2008, 12:03 PM
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| Senior Member   Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Bury, Lancashire, England
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| My October 2009 school battlefields tour is likely to be to Arnhem. I am hoping to take a group of the boys down to Shropshire beforehand to have a look. Two old boys of Bury Grammar School served as Glider Pilots at Arnhem as I have mentioned elsewhere on the Forum.
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13-06-2008, 09:27 AM
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I'll hopefully see you there on Sunday.....I've arranged with Tim J to have a stand selling books.....will you be selling or bringing copies of your latest book along? | |
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13-06-2008, 06:07 PM
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Thanks for the advert!  Steve W. | |
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16-06-2008, 08:47 AM
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| Ubique  Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: UK/France
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| What's the book?
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