Short Stirling & RAF Bomber Command Forum

Those space hamsters get everywhere.... LOL! That cant be the right translation. Will have to get a friend who understands German to have a look.

Thanks Skintman for the pics. Have sent the link to Glen Turner....

I have finally wrested this back from my Sgt and next project over the Easter break is to get it looked at properly for pics. By the way did I tell you guys about the humungus Stirling model that the President of our Assn is having built of a Stirling. Will have to go see if I did. Its not complete ...

Youre welcome.... One of these days my Sgt and I will get our asses into gear and come visit you and the Pathfinder Museum but theres so much to do and so little time...

Talking of bits of aircraft picked up an interesting tidbit on Wings over NZ forum. Apparently there is one going to excavated starting tomorrow in Germany. This is a link to the forum article http://rnzaf.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=Wartime&action=display&thread=13171 and the previous one...

Please contact me and I will give you contact details for the UK and NZ Assn secretaries.
Dee

My Sgt bid on them because a)hes a medal collector and b) cos he wanted to research the guys history! Oh well I hope they went to a good home with someone who wanted them for more than their monetary value!
Dee

Hi Bruno, Thats an interesting point about the target. Norman Franks book "Forever Strong" also has the target as Ludwigshaven, but Bomber Command War Diaries by Middlebrook and Everitt list Mannheim. I don't have the 75 squadron orb's for 1943, so can't check what their target was. Wayne...

Pity my friend Geoff doesnt arrive in the UK til May. He would certainly have wanted to go to something where there was an Aussie involved...
Dee

When I can wrestle it back off my Sgt I will certainly do that!
Dee