1. DDz Quorum Painless Posted January 10, 2009 1. DDz Quorum Share Posted January 10, 2009 ~S~ Chaps, Have a little read of this copy of Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snacko Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 Yes, he must! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erco Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 Wow, Dowding and Park, I guess you're getting your VC M8. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1. DDz Quorum B16Enk Posted January 10, 2009 1. DDz Quorum Share Posted January 10, 2009 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_James_Brindley_Nicolson His CO at 249 Squadron WC F.V Beamish pictured here: [attach=#] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JensenPark Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 great find Painless. where'd you get it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1. DDz Quorum Painless Posted January 11, 2009 Author 1. DDz Quorum Share Posted January 11, 2009 ~S~ Fine fellows, OK ...Sir Hugh Dowding was the Commander in chief of Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain and was directly responsible for keeping back enough Spitfires and Hurricanes from the battle of France to make a defence of the British Isles possible in the summer of 1940. He also insisted on the Radar network, the obsever core network and telephone network for Fighter Command thus avoiding the need for "standing patrols". Kieth Park was the officer commanding 11 group, (Kent), which took the brunt of the Luftwaffe attacks during August and September 1940. These two men were, along with Lord Beaverbrook,(who created a dispersed aircraft manufacturing and repair network), one of the main reasons we did not loose the battle. The Bf109 reference appears to be a correction but I have seen it written else where that it was infact a Bf110 ? What a great picture Rog! That is EXACTLY how you would expect a CO to look ! LOL Kelly, this was from a retail BoB information pack which a mutual friend of myself and Klinger gave to me the other day. It includes more copies of things like the flight test reports on the original prototype Spitfire K5054. A secret letter from the air ministry stating that the Russians are complaining about the Spitfires that they have received are not "new" but reconditioned which is jeopardising the current "improved relations" with the Soviet Union ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snacko Posted January 11, 2009 Share Posted January 11, 2009 Thanks for the info Painless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JensenPark Posted January 11, 2009 Share Posted January 11, 2009 A secret letter from the air ministry stating that the Russians are complaining about the Spitfires that they have received are not "new" but reconditioned which is jeopardising the current "improved relations" with the Soviet Union ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer57 Posted January 18, 2009 Share Posted January 18, 2009 Yeah, they complained about the Merlins not liking thier cheap ass oil and making metal. Once they got some oil a bit better than horse piss, they liked them. There was no pleasing those guys sometimes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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