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7th August 2022, 01:21

JDCAVE replied to a thread 220 Squadron ORB, Records of Events, Ranks missing for aircrew in General Category

That would be excellent, Rob. He’s the author of this thread here: http://ww2talk.com/index.php?threads/3-and-220-squadrons.95939/ I managed...

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6th August 2022, 17:54

JDCAVE replied to a thread 220 Squadron ORB, Records of Events, Ranks missing for aircrew in General Category

Well, whatever the reason, I’ve not observed this before and I’ve examined countless Bomber Command ORBs. It seems the squadron records keepers had...

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6th August 2022, 13:05

JDCAVE replied to a thread Fast fire! in General Category

Graham: perhaps it was and end of was an end-of war case of looking for something to do and jettisoning off ammunition “surplus to requirements”....

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5th August 2022, 20:31

JDCAVE replied to a thread Fast fire! in General Category

David, Jonny. I think dad got it wrong when he recorded his audio memoirs. He did so 40 years after the war, and as he was not a gunner, he probably...

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4th August 2022, 16:18

JDCAVE replied to a thread Fast fire! in General Category

In his audio memoirs, dad mentioned his mid upper gunner had an occurrence of something he called "Cooks Rounds" whereby when a cartridge entered the...

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3rd August 2022, 21:52

JDCAVE replied to a thread No 2 sqdn MustangsS in General Category

Or possibly Z-Zebra, K-King and L-Love. These were the accepted phonetic alphabets in the RAF in WWII. Jim

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3rd August 2022, 18:25

JDCAVE started a thread 220 Squadron ORB, Records of Events, Ranks missing for aircrew in General Category

I note the following ORB Records summary where the ranks of are absent for quite a few of the aircrew: ...

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23rd July 2022, 05:16

JDCAVE replied to a thread AOC No.38 Group, Air Vice-Marshal Leslie Norman Hollinghurst. in General Category

His obituary, available here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03068377108729595?journalCode=raaf20 Jim

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22nd July 2022, 03:17

JDCAVE replied to a thread How was fighter victories distributed (statistically) among RAF fighter pilots? in General Category

Well, the statistical distribution (because you asked) is the negative binomial distribution, with an “r” of 1 (see the animation in the Wikipedia...

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18th July 2022, 14:57

JDCAVE replied to a thread F/Sgt Stanley Gawler DFM in General Category

I believe there would have been a Court of Inquiry into this incident, the record of which should be available at TNA (RAF Form 412, “Proceedings...

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17th July 2022, 01:47

JDCAVE replied to a thread Wanted Mossbank bombing and gunnery May 22 1942 class photo in General Category

HC: Those sorts of photos are as scarce as hen’s teeth. Your best bet is from the family of someone who was in the same class. I have some class...

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15th July 2022, 14:31

JDCAVE replied to a thread Henry 'Poppa' Ambrose - reproduction log book? in General Category

Not sure but if it’s from the IWM, probably legit. They also have a replica of Douglas Bader’s logbook. Jim

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