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25th March 2023, 22:22

Don Clark replied to a thread Wellington Z1666 29OTU 1st March 1943 in General Category

For others reading, the Navigator aboard Wellington III Z1666 when lost was Sergeant Albert Webb GILLESPIE (1554372) (see...

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22nd March 2023, 18:47

Don Clark replied to a thread Pre-WWII Subcontracted Aircraft Manufacture and Intellectual Property in General Category

See eg Nevil Shute (NS Norway) Slide Rule , a principal of Airspeed Ltd from the early 1930s, re the manufacturing licence agreements struck with...

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15th March 2023, 22:04

Don Clark replied to a thread Form 'E' v ORB Detail Issues in General Category

If not done, suggest check 38 Squadron Ops Record Book Appendices 1940-1942 for more detail than in Monthly Summary Form 540 or Daily Record Form...

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11th March 2023, 21:53

Don Clark replied to a thread Strong By Night 'Fortis Nocte': History and Memories of No. 149 (East India) Squadron in Authors, Books and Book Projects

I like to search www.bookfinder.com for harder to find titles, as it covers all the usual lists in one go, and for both new and used. For ...

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10th March 2023, 04:20

Don Clark replied to a thread Blenheim Delivery Flights to Egypt late 1940 in General Category

A closing note for my part in this thread. Thanks to Lee Richards @RCRE service, have now examined all apparent National Archives records referred...

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10th March 2023, 03:58

Don Clark replied to a thread W/O Ralph Charles Wingrove 545011 RAF KAO 1945 in General Category

A closing note for my part in this thread for W/O Wingrove... The Imperial War Museum includes this quite detailed and illustrated record of the...

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9th March 2023, 21:25

Don Clark replied to a thread Log-in problem in General Category

Login sometimes returns this screen + message "Invalid Redirect URL (http://www.rafcommands.com/)" For some little while now & not every login. ...

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9th March 2023, 20:03

Don Clark replied to a thread General Flying x Applied Flying at OTU course in General Category

An aside, if I may, on the relatively recent RAF release of the RAF AHB Narratives in PDF form. A good few years ago, the MLRS was the simplest...

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9th March 2023, 06:47

Don Clark replied to a thread General Flying x Applied Flying at OTU course in General Category

Most interesting, Pavel. 54 OTU was a night fighter OTU from the outset in 1940. They had quite a variety of twin-engine multi-crew aicraft...

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9th March 2023, 04:08

Don Clark replied to a thread General Flying x Applied Flying at OTU course in General Category

Mmm, low flying at night, nice example, (though that was on an operational Squadron, not through an OTU), and a nice distinction General/Applied in...

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7th March 2023, 12:50

Don Clark replied to a thread Scion crash Wednesday March 15 1944, a day relived in General Category

Andy is right, L9786 Short Scion Senior (G-AETH reserved but not taken up), the RAF serial recorded in the db here albeit with incomplete reserved...

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6th March 2023, 09:56

Don Clark replied to a thread Sgt. Arthur Michael Dowse (1624637) in General Category

"I'd expect there to be a Casualty File in TNA AIR 81 (Air Ministry P4 Casualty) files including Leo John Michael KURY (1604146), but could not spot...

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6th March 2023, 07:34

Don Clark replied to a thread can anyone decyper this hospital name ? in General Category

Paul, as written Cranwell Gen Hosp that is Cranwell General Hospital eg as per this ref at p33 The Royal Air Force Medical Services,...

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5th March 2023, 02:05

Don Clark replied to a thread W/O Ralph Charles Wingrove 545011 RAF KAO 1945 in General Category

Alex, no, definitely not the same. As recounted on my linked page above, db here and his CWGC entry... Ralph Charles Wingrove was born in 1920 to...

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4th March 2023, 18:15

Don Clark replied to a thread W/O Ralph Charles Wingrove 545011 RAF KAO 1945 in General Category

Thank you very much indeed, Ross. Progressive Cas file release, of course. Completely slipped my mind - though it's covered here often enough....

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4th March 2023, 03:19

Don Clark replied to a thread W/O Ralph Charles Wingrove 545011 RAF KAO 1945 in General Category

Fresh from the Pierian Spring: 1653 Conversion Unit https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7160903 So, the ORB found as...

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3rd March 2023, 22:40

Don Clark started a thread W/O Ralph Charles Wingrove 545011 RAF KAO 1945 in General Category

Following some recent family correspondence about Ralph Wingrove (211 Squadron Sgt W/Op AG, Nov 1938-Oct 1940) I've been looking for further...

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1st March 2023, 04:33

Don Clark replied to a thread Lancaster Bomber Photograph nose art Xquisite with 14 crosses in General Category

AWM image Description "Lincolnshire, England. 1944-12-06. "X" for X-ray" Simon asks "Is that meant to be June 12th 1944, or December 6th 1944? "...

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27th February 2023, 09:22

Don Clark replied to a thread arcre in Websites - Information, News and Reviews

Bruce, Didn't think of this earlier, I'm sorry. My PC is Windows 10, with Firefox as the default browser, and Microsoft Edge as "reserve" browser,...

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25th February 2023, 20:55

Don Clark replied to a thread Colin Burningham "From Great Britain to India" in Books - Information and Reviews

Update: Colin is rather isolated, for a couple of reasons, so email contact can be a touch erratic. However, he does sell copies of his book and...

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25th February 2023, 20:45

Don Clark replied to a thread Link polish Airman in the RAF in General Category

The webpage addr seems to be a placemarker: https://listakrzystka.pl/blank_page.html does load, as a mostly blank page. However,the page notes as...

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25th February 2023, 19:27

Don Clark replied to a thread arcre in Websites - Information, News and Reviews

No trouble logging into my @RCRE account. Lee did experience file request probs re the TNA IT glitch for recently opened files, back in Jan...no...

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