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January 7th, 2003, 06:06 PM
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Yes, Martin, try say SCHEVENINGEN 
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I have enough trouble at Arnhem trying to pronounce things like ' De Leeren Doedel'..I'm just glad that everyone in Holland speaks perfect English [img]tongue.gif[/img]
Now - concentrate on the question ! [img]smile.gif[/img]
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January 8th, 2003, 05:30 AM
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The Arc got a nice present send by a Beaufighter that day. Flight lieutenant A.K. Gatward and Sergeant G Fern dropped the French National Flag on the Arc and than strafed the nearby Kriegsmarine headquarters. It didn't say what time it was but it must have turned some heads. Whas it some kind of wager?
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January 8th, 2003, 06:30 AM
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Well done, Popski - absolutely correct.
I actually don't know the full story behind this incident - I shall do some research on this. The exploits of the Beaufighter are sometimes overshadowed by those of the Mosquito. Flt Lt Gatward died a couple of years ago and 'The Times' did a very interesting obituary which I failed to cut out and keep 
Anyhow - your question...!
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January 8th, 2003, 04:13 PM
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What colour is the "Waffenfarbe"of the German military justice?
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January 8th, 2003, 05:57 PM
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Bordeaux red
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January 8th, 2003, 06:12 PM
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Indeed Bish
Isn't it a nice colour.
Over to Bish
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Darn it Bish--you beat me to it 
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January 9th, 2003, 05:26 PM
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The proposed German E-series of AFVs was to be 6 vehicles.
Name them.
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January 9th, 2003, 06:36 PM
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Errr - haven't got the names, only numbers :
E-5, E-10, E-25, E-50, E-75, E-100 ?
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January 9th, 2003, 08:06 PM
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Thats all there was martin. Should have said designation really, but you got it.
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January 10th, 2003, 06:53 PM
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Here's something a little different...
Where did the AEF Orchestra play their final airfield concert with Glenn Miller.... ?
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January 10th, 2003, 07:55 PM
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G'day
The last airfieldconcert was at Knettishall airfield with the 388th BG I think. He flew from Twinwood farm airfield trying to get to Paris on 15th of December.
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January 11th, 2003, 12:14 AM
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Very good try, Popski..but it wasn't Knettishall...
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The other thing I found was the Corn Exchange in Bedford but that doesn't sound like an airfield and isn't named in the Bedfordshire WWII airfield's. It was with Beryl Davis a few day's before Alton Glenn left on the final flight to nowhere. So might this be the answer??
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Ok - you're really trying on this one, Pospki... here's a clue.
It was a fighter airfield, and it does begin with K....
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January 11th, 2003, 10:33 AM
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Thank's Martin
Found several airfields beginning with a K but than I would just give you a list of names. I haven't got a clue of where to look next, so any other takers?
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Total guesswork, and only because I went past it yesterday...Kimbolton?
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January 11th, 2003, 02:00 PM
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Good stab at it..but no. You're in the right area, though....
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January 11th, 2003, 03:12 PM
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Popskis, right we dont want to keep guessing on the K's wouldnt have thought there were that many of em anyway...But wife was born and brought up in Northampton village, we live in the town now though, she says its probably Kings Cliffe? If it aint I'll leave it to others...
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Hehehe...
Well done, Mrs. urqh !
Kings Cliffe it was indeed where, on Tuesday October 3rd 1944, Glenn Miller and the American Band of the AEF performed their last-ever airfield concert together. After that it was just too cold to play in aircraft hangars....
Incidentally, everything you could ever want to know on the subject is contained in 'Glenn Miller In Britain - Then & Now' by Chris Way.
It's all yours, urqh...
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Lots of memorials to the 8th in Northampton. Drive past em constantly and you just dont notice unless you get out the car.
Saying that, I go to work everyday and no its not in Northampton....Pass through a lovely memorial to all the dead of the Merchantile marine from WW2.
Only noticed it one day in the sun when I actually stopped and read a plaque then spent hours over next few weeks looking round the gardens site..
Names of all merchant seamen from Britian and commonwealth and some other nations that sailed out of UK and were killed majority with no known graves...are inscribed on it...
Now the question, where is it?
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Tower Hill ?
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Great question on Glenn...and quite a tough one. The "usual" connections did not bring the answer and neither my father, a Glenn Miller fan, knew the answer...
Great music!
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Blimey, talk about 15 minutes of fame...
Tower Hill it is...
http://www.british-merchant-navy.co.uk/TOWER.htm
Over to you again Martin, could you ask something the wife might know though???
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