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Post by Dave Homewood on Nov 16, 2013 10:37:58 GMT 12
Another possibility regarding interesting colour schemes of NZ-connected Lancasters is perhaps you could get Hong Kong Models to sponsor the NZBCA with a number of their new 1/32 scale kitsets (or Tamiya with their 1/48 kit) and make up a display of various bombers with special nose arts and histories connected to the NZBCA - such as all the 100+ op Lancs which had kiwi crew members, and Taipo, and NE148 that Noel Stokes crashed in (with Donald Duck artwork), and Les Munro's Lancasters, and the special ops No. 101 Squadron Lancaster currently depicted, etc.
That way you would have maybe 15 Lancasters lined up in a display, that would really capture the imagination of younger folk and show the public the varying roles and squadrons, and each tells its own unique and amazing story. Just a thought.
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Post by pjw4118 on Nov 16, 2013 15:39:22 GMT 12
Now thats a thought.We are about to upgrade the current "empty " display cabinets and really want to refresh the diorama with some expert help ...hint . There is quite a lot of floor space still available and ideas so far are ,, a display nav table with charts etc , radio sets with live feed on demand and temporary displays or art/photo exhibitions. They all need to fit in with the rules and our ability to obtain funding.
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Post by tonywest on Dec 5, 2015 4:18:56 GMT 12
Re PB150 CF-V I believe that the Kiwi nose-art was probably added by the first crew led by P/O Trevor G Wilson who completed a tour in it. The next crew was a mixture of RAF and RAAF, the pilot being Ted Twynam from NSW. My uncle Archie was the mid-upper gunner. As bad luck would have it they were rested for a mission to Bochum on November 3rd, and CF-V was assigned to another crew. The mission was put off a day because of bad weather, and 5 extra crews were needed. They took CF-Y (PB-154) and were lost over the target. This is a photo of CF-V probably taken in October by the pilot. Archie is on the left of the four crew members. I wish I had a copy of "Watch the Down Wind" written by Jeanette Adams, a Leicestershire girl who married F/L Rod Hoffman from Invercargill who was the bomb aimer in the crew of George Reynolds, their regular aircraft being CF-L. After the war they returned to New Zealand. J N Harvey was the youngest RAAF pilot to complete a tour, and flew with 625. He survived the war and was the original founder of "Harvey's World Travel"
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Post by pinuche0706 on Nov 24, 2016 7:26:41 GMT 12
Hi guys, Thanks for your msgs. I'll see if Mel will let me post a picc of his print of NE181 asap. He has done so much great artwork for me, all the ties, scarves, lapelpins and the banner/flag all have his aircraft artwork, and will also be doing one of the Mosquito for Gerry Yagen.. and Gerry was very interested about this at Ardmore 'that day'. Re Ballingall above. Two brothers.... (from Colin Hanson's Sqn Nominal Roll). Alexander Stewart Ballingall. NZ 2286. Sqn Ldr, Pilot and Flt Commander. 75(NZ)Sqn, 8May to 21 Jul 1945. RAF Mepal. DOD unknown. Barry Gordon Ballingall. NZ4215138. W/O, WOAG. 75(NZ)Sqn 17Jul to 5Oct 1945, RAF Spilsby. Tiger Force. Lives in Wanganui. c/w O.J.T. Hodgson (as W/Op), who lives in Whangamata. So it was Alexander Stewart who would have flown NE181. Seems Alex and Barry only met up at Luffenham briefly, and maybe at Mepal for a day or so. I'll give Barry a call and see if he remembers anything of NE181 or has Alex's logbooks! For 514 Squadron RAF history, I am looking for relatives, photos, log book scans, documents about Barry Gordon Ballingall and his Hodgson crew, as follows. RNZAF airmen of the crew while at 514 Sqn, whom flew both 514 Sqn (at least 3 sorties from May to July 1945) and 75(NZ)Sqn, were: - NZ4213260 P/O Oliver Joseph Tate Hodgson (Pilot) - NZ438691 F/S John Gower Hughes (Navigator) - NZ4212790 F/S Vivian Francis Dufty (Bomb Aimer) - NZ4215138 F/S Barry Gordon Ballingall (WOP) - NZ423107 F/S Roy Newling Spence (Mid Upper Gunner) - NZ427034 F/S P. Turner (Rear Gunner) - unknown spelling for the firstname.
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Post by errolmartyn on Nov 24, 2016 12:07:49 GMT 12
- NZ427034 F/S P. Turner (Rear Gunner) - unknown spelling for the firstname. Patrick Michael Turner. Errol
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Post by pinuche0706 on Nov 24, 2016 21:35:41 GMT 12
Thank you Errol
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Post by pjw4118 on Nov 25, 2016 9:05:31 GMT 12
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Post by pjw4118 on Nov 25, 2016 9:30:54 GMT 12
That's Barry Ballingall above
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Post by pinuche0706 on Nov 27, 2016 4:08:27 GMT 12
Peter, thank you for your post - Any identification on the Oliver Hodgson's crew photo?
I know from left, the ranks below being those recorded in ORBs on 12/07/1944, 1st: NZ4215138 F/S Barry Gordon Ballingall (WOP/AG) 2nd: NZ438691 F/S John Gower Hughes (Navigator) 4th: NZ4213260 P/O Oliver Joseph Tate Hodgson (Pilot) 5th: 1397533 F/S MS "Jock" Jenner (F/Engineer) RAFVR the three others of the crew being in unknown order: maybe 3rd: NZ4212790 F/S Vivian Francis "Viv" Dufty (Bomb Aimer) and, NZ427034 F/S Patrick Michael Turner (Mid Upper Gunner) NZ423107 F/S Roy Newling Spence (Rear Gunner)
- Another crew having used the same A/C ME535 JI-G on 25/06/1945, I have to cross-check data of that day. Do you have the page right side of Hodgson's logbook, and left and right page of John Hughes logbook? I am looking for hours of take-off, landing and flight.
- In your album of "Les Adams (30)", is this Adams NZ414255 (or NZ414225) F/O Leslie Arthur "Les" Adams? Recorded in 514 Sqn ORBs NZ414255 and in Cenotaph NZ414225. He flew at 514 Sqn from March 1945 until 30 July, and possibly till Squadron disbanded 22 August 1945.
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Post by pjw4118 on Nov 27, 2016 8:45:37 GMT 12
In Olivers logbook he records the flight of 25/6 as 5.25 hours day and 1.50 hours night , no take off or landings time. I don't have John Hughes logbook just his album. The crew photo from left Ballingal,Hughes,Spence,Hodgson ,Jenner,Turner, Dufty.
The Les Adams album I have records his service in the Pacific as a ground engineer , he did not serve in Europe.
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Post by errolmartyn on Nov 27, 2016 10:57:19 GMT 12
- In your album of "Les Adams (30)", is this Adams NZ414255 (or NZ414225) F/O Leslie Arthur "Les" Adams? Recorded in 514 Sqn ORBs NZ414255 and in Cenotaph NZ414225. He flew at 514 Sqn from March 1945 until 30 July, and possibly till Squadron disbanded 22 August 1945. NZ414225 is correct for Adams. NZ414255 belongs to Walter Ross Craig. Errol
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Post by pinuche0706 on Nov 28, 2016 7:08:38 GMT 12
Thank you, Peter and Errol
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Post by redsix1 on Dec 22, 2018 9:23:20 GMT 12
Hello from the new guy.
In re: Lancaster III, EE129, on page 17 of his book for 1944, Chorley gives its loss date as 1 - 2 January 1944, on a mission to Berlin, with a Kiwi pilot, F/L L C Kingsbury RNZAF. All 7 aircrew became POWs.
Clearly needs a reconciliation.
Cheers,
G.
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Post by errolmartyn on Dec 22, 2018 11:41:24 GMT 12
According to Garbett and Goulding in "Lancaster" they could only trace a total of 28 Lancasters that did make the 100 mark and beyond. It explains how there is almost always doubt in the count and discrepancies often between the bomb talley marks on the nose and the ORB and other records. However of the 28 they found they detail and have photos of: . . . Lancaster BIII EE129 BQ-B Phantom of the Ruhr 121 ops, scrapped 1946 /quote] Should read EE1 39. Errol
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