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Cannot spell either......
Posted by Will Fowler on Thu Nov 15, 2001 04:52:59 AM
In reply top Another occation when I.... posted by Will Fowler on Thu Nov 15, 2001 04:46:38 AM
That will teach me to type quickly when I am in a mood about something, sorry to all the English teachers that wasted all their time trying to teach me to read and write, seems to have been a waste of time :-)
: Yeap, yet another occation when I hold my head low and fee
: l ashamed to call myself a Brit, when will goverments lear
: n that they are there to serve the people not the other wa
: y around.
:
: Well if I had my bleeding way, I and a group of other peop
: le would be up there right now with a bloody JCB putting a
: mistake right, sod the farmer, its probably crown land an
: yway.
:
: Oh well, lets hope people see sense and this is made corre
: ct, sorry to all our Aussi freinds, we are not all W*&^ers
: up here, just the ones that seem to hold the goverment jo
: bs....
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: Will
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: : I saw on the East Midlands news last night, a story abou
: t
: : ND475.
: : It crashed in a Lincolnshire farmer's field returning fr
: om
: : a raid on Juvisy in France, killing all the crew, and i
: t
: : has been found that two of the crew still remain in the
: gr
: : ound there, and yes you guessed right......the MOD alway
: s
: : knew where they were.
: : They are both Australians and their families had thought
: s
: : ince the war that they were missing in action, because t
: ha
: : t is what they had been told, and their names are on the
: R
: : unneymede Memorial.
: :
: : The farmer keeps ploughing up bits of metal, and who kno
: ws
: : what else, but he doesn't want a recovery done for some
: o
: : dd reason.
: : A local aviation group, from East Kirkby I think, have a
: sk
: : ed the MOD for a recovery , but they say it is unlikely
: it
: : will happen.
: : The families have asked for a recovery, but the MOD stil
: l
: : say it is unlikely to happen.
: :
: : I would just love to know what the REAL reason is, as to
: w
: : hy the MOD will not consider giving these lost Heroes a
: de
: : cent burial.
: : It is obviously a policy decision that was made very man
: y
: : years ago, probably near the end of the war, so the curr
: en
: : t government is not entirely to blame for this.
: :
: : A quick bit of research reveals that ND475 served with 5
: 7
: : Sqn from RAF East Kirkby, and crashed on 19th April 1944
: ,
: : one of the crew lost was the second pilot on his first o
: pe
: : ration, Aussie Pilot Officer Culliford, one of those sti
: ll
: : in the ground.
: :
: : Regards
: : Mick
: :
: : A bit more on this on the Flypast forum where I have alr
: ea
: : dy "raved" a bit, so I won't repeat it here !
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