At a recent event at Bletchley I had a guided tour which was superb, the highlight of which was Tony Sale doing a demonstration of his...
Gordon, there is a memorial/pile'o'bits for the Ochils spitfires, this walk will take you to it...... Walking in the Ochils, Campsie Fells ... -...
Foerster details of the mission, and pictures of the pilot can be viewed on the above excellent website............ and they've added my pics...
a more respected internet site has the pilot listed as Oblt. Fritz Förster
no further information at all, it was a throwaway line in an article about walking in the remote parts of the hills and nothing to do with a ww2,...
dear moderator, could you please delete this thread as I appear to have duplicated myself........... many thanks
seeing as the owners have been 'protecting the site', it'll be interesting to see what else they found...
sorry slight c^ck up with the pics!:eek:
being a resident of Edinburgh, I frequently walk the dog and cycle in the pentland hills, but until I read an article on-line the other day, I'd...
you didn't mention if anyone survived? if they didn't the commonwealth war graves details usually have a town/area where each of the crew came...
how true, i was looking on a dehavilland research site the other day that listed all the mossies and there were a large number that met with their...
WW2 mine found just north of edinburgh... BBC NEWS | Scotland | Edinburgh, East and Fife | World War II mine found in Forth quite surprising...
The squadron ORB's should give details..... I've nothing for 156, but for example from 103 squardron raid on berlin december '43 gives.... The...
Hi Callum, On the top of castland hill which is just to the south of rosyth there is the old dockyard control centre, some nice old aerial mounts...
Loved the story on the danish bunker website about the guy with a flak gun in his garage.......
:bazookafire:the way the oil price is headed at the moment cavalry and or cycle troops may make a comeback...
Fortunatley my trips out usually involve just me and the dog, and he seems to like wandering round old wartime features and buildings..........
The germans actually dropped over 1000 of these on Grimsby and Cleethorpes in 1943. They were still killing people months afterwards. It was all...
brilliant find..... its so nice to see a relic that actually looks like what its meant to be!! many thanks for posting the pics...
