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12-04-2005, 08:34 AM
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#16 | | Der Crewchief
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01-03-2006, 09:33 AM
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#17 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: In WW2 Land, CODUO, SWON
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Country:  | Good news and bad news. The good news is that I have purchased a few flight combat books, whose names I will post later. The bad news is that getting through all of these books will delay my next update to my story. | |
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01-03-2006, 03:35 PM
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#18 | | Junior Member
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| mY FATHER FOUGHT IN WW2 hE WAS A TAIL GUNNER IN THE NEW aIR fORCE, His name was Homer Roy Beck...would like to know if there are any of his war friends alive to tell me any thing about him, I am his illigitamate daughter and he passed before I learned about him..Also would like to learn about the aircraft he flew in.. Thank You
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trying to find out what the plane my biological father flew in in ww2 he was a tail gunner | |
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01-03-2006, 03:43 PM
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#19 | | IP/Mech THE GREAT GAZOO
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Originally Posted by sharron mY FATHER FOUGHT IN WW2 hE WAS A TAIL GUNNER IN THE NEW aIR fORCE, His name was Homer Roy Beck...would like to know if there are any of his war friends alive to tell me any thing about him, I am his illigitamate daughter and he passed before I learned about him..Also would like to learn about the aircraft he flew in.. Thank You | Hi Sharron, what aircraft did he fly? Try here... http://b24bw.proboards33.com/index.cgi http://www.maxwell.af.mil/au/afhra/
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01-03-2006, 04:06 PM
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#20 | | Senior Member
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Country: | I'll try an pull some strings with my grandpa, and see if he and his friends remember anyone by that name. | |
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01-09-2006, 02:51 PM
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#21 | | Senior Member
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Country: | sorry no luck, my grandpa contacted buddies, and they couldnt remember anyone by that name. | |
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02-01-2006, 11:01 AM
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#22 | | Senior Member
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Country: | Ok, more help needed. If I were to send the Peregrines over Sicily in a Catialina for bombing, would it seem feasible for a special squadron that usually gets hand-me-downs? | |
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02-09-2006, 03:47 PM
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#23 | | Senior Member
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Country: | Personal opinion question, should I have the squadron participate in defending Malta? | |
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02-09-2006, 05:36 PM
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#24 | | World Traveler
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Country:  | If it is an American Squadron then no, if a British or Commonwealth then it depends where they are, I would say yes.
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02-10-2006, 12:35 AM
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#25 | | Senior Member
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Country: | Its an eagle squadron with people from all over the globe. | |
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02-10-2006, 06:31 AM
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#26 | | World Traveler
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Country: | It may of been sent to there in real life and so I would say it would be plausible for them to go to Malta.
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02-10-2006, 09:25 AM
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#27 | | Senior Member
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Country: | Sweet, new chapter idea. Thanks Gnomey!! | |
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06-23-2007, 09:47 PM
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#28 | | Junior Member
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Country:  | If you have the time to read detailed WW2 airwar histories, the Shores/Cull books are pretty definitive about Malta, and other theatres. There are also many books written about Beurling.
An interesting Spitfire pilot's-eye view is Dennis Barnham's "One Man's Window," c.1956 (William Kimber) and reprinted in the 80's in paperback.
When you find one book you like, check its bibliography for the source books the author used, and then find and read those. Rare books can be found fast through abebooks.com. | |
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