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07-01-2008, 04:00 PM
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#1 | | Senior Member
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Country:  |  Swordfish flies!
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07-02-2008, 03:49 PM
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Country:  | Great news, awesome to see a Stringbag in the air again.
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07-02-2008, 03:55 PM
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Country:  | Lee, where are you? YouŽll love to hear about this news...
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...a friend of Joe Owsianik,So. Plainfield, NJ, a former left waist gunner from B-17G ''Tail End Charlie" from 2ndBG,20th Sqdn, that was forced to bail out on Aug. 29th, 1944 over my country. | |
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07-02-2008, 04:23 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Jersey Shore
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Country:  | Great to see those old warbirds where they belong ..... in the air!
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07-02-2008, 11:36 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: UK
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Country:  | Hooray I may yet get to see one in the air.
They certainly are no glamour puss, but still deserve a well earned position in the great planes of WW2 hall of fame | |
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07-03-2008, 09:49 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Vila Real
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Country:  | i hope to see one of those very old school planes
which are awesome | |
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07-03-2008, 02:56 PM
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07-04-2008, 02:12 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Melbourne, Victoria
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Country:  | Great aircraft, I have a real soft spot for the Swordfish.
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07-04-2008, 07:45 PM
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Country:  | Congratulations! Repairing itself was a long-term project. The pic was taken by me at Yeovilton hangar in 2000 when the RNHF people said the LS326 was under repair.
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