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29th June 2022, 20:43

Marcel L. started a thread yellow warning T.I's in General Category

Hi, in night raid report no. 348 (11./12.6.1943), targets Dusseldorf, Duisburg etc. are mentioned. The plan of attack of Dusseldorf includes the...

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29th June 2022, 20:26

Marcel L. started a thread colours of the period in General Category

Hi, on the way to Dusseldorf in the night of 11./12.6.1943, an aircraft of 51 Squadron "fired the colours of the period", to make a convoy...

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29th June 2022, 20:17

bloodhound1234 started a thread RAF abbreviation RJP in General Category

Can anybody help identifying this RAF Flight? It is quoted in a letter from an airman to his mother as a Flight as part of 27 sqdn based at RAF...

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30th June 2022, 12:53

HughAHalliday started a thread S/L George Taylor COMBE - No.1340 Flight - DFC (1956) for Kenya - bio but no cit. in Archives, Original Material

TAYLOR, George Combe, Squadron Leader – No. 1340 Flight, Kenya – Distinguished Flying Cross – awarded as per London Gazette dated 6 March 1956. No...

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30th June 2022, 12:03

HughAHalliday started a thread Dickin Medal to "Commando", a pigeon in SOE Service in Archives, Original Material

The following transcription is just as it appeared in the Spink auction catalogue of 30 November 2004. I do not know the full meaning of such...

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30th June 2022, 13:06

HughAHalliday started a thread CORRECTION - for George Taylor COMBE, read George Combe TAYLOR in Archives, Original Material

Finger trouble or Brain Fart - sorry.

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30th June 2022, 12:28

HughAHalliday started a thread WO John APPLEBY - No.267 Squadron - DFM - Pickup in Occupied Poland in Archives, Original Material

APPLEBY, John, Warrant Officer (1316512) – No.267 Squadron – Distinguished Flying Medal – awarded as per London Gazette dated 17 October 1944. No....

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30th June 2022, 15:58

Marcel L. replied to a thread yellow warning T.I's in General Category

Hi PNK, thanks for your reply and your idea, what it could have been meant for. Marcel

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30th June 2022, 15:02

PNK replied to a thread colours of the period in General Category

I thought they were colours of the day and changed daily. I don't know at what time of day the colours switched. It must have been awkward to fire...

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30th June 2022, 15:00

PNK replied to a thread yellow warning T.I's in General Category

Probably not related but I did think on some raids, probably in occupied countries that civilian populations were given a warning which may have been...

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30th June 2022, 13:20

Marcel L. replied to a thread yellow warning T.I's in General Category

Hi David, thanks for your reply. The coordinates mentioned in the Night Raid Report do not fit to the routes of the aircraft. I think there is a...

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30th June 2022, 10:58

David Wallace replied to a thread yellow warning T.I's in General Category

Nothing in the 109 Squadron ORB about the specific duties on the Düsseldorf attacks but 109 Squadron often did “route marking” using Oboe, it was the...

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30th June 2022, 08:35

manniwei replied to a thread W/C George Harcus Sheehan 37587 in General Category

Hello, another addendum to W/C Sheehan: According to www.awm.gov.au. the correct name is MARCUS George Sheehan Greetings Manni

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29th June 2022, 19:01

jonheyworth replied to a thread The Unaccounted Project - Final Stretch Updates by Jon Heyworth in Unaccounted Airmen and Airwomen Project

Alfred George Gardner 1288288 and William Frederick Alec Jefford 1422615 , both attached to Number 76 Works Flight, were both killed in a MT...

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29th June 2022, 18:37

JDCAVE replied to a thread TNA Copying Service Provider in General Category

Lee has provided me with the first “tranch” of documents from TNA, so I’m quite pleased. Jim

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29th June 2022, 18:23

PNK replied to a thread Letting Google do the work for you on your images.... in General Category

Thanks for the clarification. It sounds very useful and something I will consider as I have a few thousand folders each containing hundreds of...

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