 | Hi from a limey!| Basic Discuss Hi from a limey! in the Current forums; I joined a while ago but can't remember saying hello. So forgive me if I bore you with it ... |
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06-17-2008, 03:58 PM
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#1 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Wamphray. Scotland
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I joined a while ago but can't remember saying hello. So forgive me if I bore you with it again! In a way I started my service in 1944 when I left school and got a job as a naval messenger on the Grimsby naval base HMS Beaver. That lasted till September 1945. Then did a few years french polishing and repairing piano's. Came 1948 and national service loomed, two years in the Royal Artillery Ack Ack. Demobbed in 1950 and three months later was in the Royal Air Force. Trained as an electrical mechanic and ended up on 617 Squadron (dam busters) keeping Avro Lincolns flying. Then just as we got the EE Canberra, I went on a fitters course for my promotion. We took the Canberra's to Malaya, dropping thousand pounders on the terrs. After leaving the RAF, I worked for a firm producing oven ready duckling. I am now retired (I should think so at 78!!!) I now put time in at the local Aviation Museum and help my wife breeding miniature poodles. Phew! Done.
If youve heard it all before, my appologies!
Ken
PS. I did seven years as a Special Constable, so watch it!!! | 
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06-17-2008, 04:28 PM
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#2 | | IP/Mech THE GREAT GAZOO
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06-17-2008, 04:54 PM
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Country:  | G'day Ken welcome to the forum mate.. 
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06-17-2008, 05:23 PM
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06-17-2008, 11:25 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Dordrecht
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Country:  | Good to have you here, Ken
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06-18-2008, 01:52 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Cracow
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06-18-2008, 01:59 AM
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#7 | | Siggy Master
Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Poland
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I'm with V2. 
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06-18-2008, 06:36 AM
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06-18-2008, 07:41 AM
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#9 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Zlin, Czech Republic
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Country:  | Welcome to the forum Ken!
Greeting from the Czech Republic 
Which A/C museum do you work for?
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Zlin, Czech Republic
...a friend of Joe Owsianik, 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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06-18-2008, 08:57 AM
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06-18-2008, 09:48 AM
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Charles is no longer the oldest?
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06-18-2008, 09:54 AM
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06-18-2008, 09:55 AM
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Originally Posted by Njaco  Welcome to the forum!
Charles is no longer the oldest? | Think Jhor9 (Jules Horowitz), the WW2 vet is the oldest...
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Roman Susil
Zlin, Czech Republic
...a friend of Joe Owsianik, 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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06-18-2008, 10:20 PM
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Country: | Welcome Ken. From your "Bio" it looks like you have some interesting tales to tell.
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06-18-2008, 11:19 PM
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| Good to have to here ...From a nother poodle owner ..Great dogs ... | |
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