Caribbean Naval Bases

will pm you with details

 

Trini Aviator: you have not enabled private message or email. PM me instead with your email and will send my email & cell number or try the Chaguaramas Military Museum at 634-4391. I am usually there on Wed & Fri

 

hmm jerome you do this for a living or as a hobby?

 

When I am physically at the Museum, I am paid a small stipend for those days - the other days I spend researching (many long hours into the night) is at my own expense - so I guess the best answer is No I don't do it for a living and neither would I call it a hobby - it is perhaps more a debt of honour to acknowledge and commemorate all those brave men & women who served and died. It is my ultimate goal to have my data placed on the Museum website - when it is seriously re-vamped- and so make it freely available.

 

I think i found the location

 

Where? Show this location by Google Maps, or other similar please......



Jan.

 

Ok i will

 

Jerome,

I was very interested in your information about American bases in Trinidad. Do you have any information about the Trinidad/Trinidad and Tobago Volunteers? They were a locally raised unit with 2 battalions. The 1st battalion was sent overseas but the war ended before the 2nd could be sent. My father and uncle both served in the 2nd battalion, but I can find little or nothing about the unit on the web. I have seen pictures of the men in uniform guarding military installations in Trinidad but there is no information around.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

My apologies for my long absence. What started as a simple request for a list of Trinidad aircrew in ww2, somehow got terribly out of hand!!

I have placed on this website, Caribbean Roll of Honour the names of those West Indians killed in both world wars. I am still working on it, but thought it best to post my data in the public domain just in case. For information on Caribbean RAF Aircrew visit this site Caribbean Aircrew in the RAF.

 

Dear Jerome:

Seems a big task.

I wish to you the best luck for your websites!





Jan.

 

This photo of a PBM Mariner, was I am told, taken over Trinidad. I have my doubts. The nose number 212 P2 seem to indicate 212 Sqn (VP212) but I can find no such USN Squadron. Can anyone help?

 

Take a look, Jerome:

• The fighting flying boat: a history ... - Google Libros
• Advanced Search

Jan.

 

Thanks a lot Jan.

 

You are welcome, Jerome!




Jan.

 

Jerome:

Possibly this link helps you in your enquiries:WarMuseum.ca - Democracy at War: Canadian Newspaper and the Second World War.

For search, in WarMuseum.ca - Democracy at War - Detailed search

In resume is a huge collection of clipping Canadians newspapers. A great resource, in my oppinion.





Jan.

 

VP 204 Squadron photograph.

 

Anybody have info on the aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm 752 Squadron? I am particularly interested in the Stinson AT19. I heard a BBC4 Broadcast that indicated that many airplanes were dumped into the ocean at the end of the war, particularly the Barracuda - just curious if the Reliant was included in that group.
Thanks,

 

I am not sure about the Reliant - I have been awol from the Museum for the last fortnight - but will check next week as to what types of a/c were dumped and location. I have uploaded some 752 Sqn photos on my site (see address in post 29 above), as well as 750 Sqn

 

Dear Stinson:

• In first place, welcome at WW2F!
• In second, go to Naval Air Squadrons Index of the Fleet Air Arm Archive 1939-1945 and digg it!

Following, please explain your investigations in this thread.......







Jan.

 

Hi Jan,
Thanks - this is a great site! I have looked thru the Fleet Air Arm Archive - they have alot of great stuff there. I have been researching the histories of all 500 Stinson AT-19's built. Both during the war and in their civilian life afterwards. I own 5 of the airplanes of which one is flying and one I am restoring. The flying airplane flew with 752 Squadron at Piarco. When I went thru the planes paperwork it still had the original Air Corp log of its flight from Detroit to Trinidad and also many of the Royal Navy logbooks from it's time in Trinidad. I am doing the restoration as accurate as I can be to the original FAA configuration. I have found all of the original UK equipment that was installed; radios, camera & drive motor, headsets/microphones, even the correct Air Ministry electrical connectors and fittings.

Thanks again for all your help - I am a "self-proclaimed" computer idiot so let me know when I do something wrong