Skipper, The detail you add to these posts is fantastic, linking faces in old photographs to names, squadrons, aircraft and crash sites. As I...
A friend of Dad's posted these remarkeable images from Freteval Forest - "Images of Bill Brayley". Skipper you may be familiar with these images....
Adam, You are not butting in at all! Searching with your term "tornister" this came up: Tornister That most certainly is the backpack and...
Regarding the cheese with maggots, this site: Beginner's Guide to French Cheeses has this reference: "Be warned, though, that the rinds of...
Dad sent some images of another memento from WW2, a German backpack. The outer cover of the backpack is hide (horse?) German Backpack Anyone...
Dad e-mailed images of shoes he bought in France in 1944. Shoes " I bought these in either Le Mans or Orleans. The name inside reads J....
I posted the four pages from my presentation that pertain to this site, they don't make a lot of sense unless you have been following this thread....
Skipper, Erich and others, I recently made a presentation to a group of 25 of our community educators, politicians and leaders. The presentation...
This is an interesting development in this story. You may recall an earlier discussion about a 100 Franc note with signatures of the evaders in...
We may have already posted this link, Dad wrote a few paragraphs about Freteval Forest: http://www.hilaroad.com/RCAF/freteval/freteval.html He...
Hello all, first day of 2007. Dad is still flying - with his feet on the ground! This is an electric RC piper cub he flew during the summer....
Skipper, amazing rendering of the JU88. It will be interesting to watch the evolution of this image. The collaborative nature of this project,...
Erich and Skipper, I have come across a reference to Lancaster ME858 J1 - J of 514 squadron that went down near Hunsel, Holland the night of July...
Skipper, thanks for posting the map. The airfield indicated on the map, is it the same one used by the Luftwaffe during WW2? Baigneaux is...
Skipper, Once again thanks for your work on this interesting story. That would indeed be amazing if that B&B was the Arthur farm house. The...
Good Morning, More on "flaming onions" form this site: http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/user/28/u1572628.shtml quote from site: "Also we were...
Skipper, Regarding more information about Freteval Forest, you are probably familiar with the Freteval information I have on the Internet:...
Skipper, Thank you for these evocative images. You have captured the essence of St. Cloud and it does look like a place frozen in time. Our...
This may be the cut-away Bristol Hercules that Dad is talking about....
Skipper, we are looking forward to your images from St. Cloud. I have posted another newspaper item, I believe this was printed in the Toronto...
