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Post by Dave Homewood on Aug 12, 2011 0:19:24 GMT 12
I'm only going by what I have been told by those 'in the know' both in the Army and in the museum industry, it is probably like all museums in having good and bad days. My guess is that weekends are probably always better for them than weekdays.
I visited in 2009 with my mate. It hadn't changed too much since we were kids, and we found it a bit dated compared with other museums nowadays, but at the same time we very much enjoyed seeing it again. Neither of us had been there since we were teenagers. It has some great exhibits and nowadays after meeting lots of soldiers from WWII I can actually understand their context so much more. The cost to get in was $12.00, so they had not followed Wigram's lead with free entry.
Luke, your profile says you're 31, is that right? ;D
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Post by luke6745 on Aug 12, 2011 0:38:17 GMT 12
Luke, your profile says you're 31, is that right? ;D Nope, I'm 15 haha ;D
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Post by Dave Homewood on Aug 12, 2011 1:07:57 GMT 12
I had wondered about that before. Putting your age up to 31 to get into the bars? ;D
Which ATC unit are you with?
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Post by shorty on Aug 12, 2011 11:25:11 GMT 12
Us ATC boys had fun putting on the full dress uniforms and running around with the fake guns in the kid area haha. ;D[/quote] About what we would expect! (At least you were in the appropriate area)
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Post by luke6745 on Aug 12, 2011 16:27:12 GMT 12
I had wondered about that before. Putting your age up to 31 to get into the bars? ;D haha ;D Which ATC unit are you with? 1 Squadron.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Aug 14, 2011 3:10:07 GMT 12
Here's a piece of RNZAF History:
Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 16, 18 July 1942, Page 6
MAORI GRADUATE
EMPIRE AIR TRAINING PLAN
The first Maori graduate under the Empire Air Training Scheme to be selected in Canada for a temporary commission is Hohepa Mete Meha, of Waipawa, Hawke's Bay, who has been granted the rank of pilot officer in the general duties branch of the Royal New Zealand Air Force.
Pilot Officer Meha is married and has one son. After leaving school, where he was prominent in sport, he was engaged with his father in farming at Waipawa, and afterwards was engaged in missionary work at Auckland with the Latter Day Saints Mission. He volunteered for the Air Force shortly after war broke out, and was accepted as a wireless operator-air gunner.
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