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Post by corsair5517 on Mar 25, 2014 10:30:42 GMT 12
Just found this in the depths on my computer.. I realise most have probably seen it, but just in case, here it is...  ... sorry about this; I cannot seem to embed the clip! |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Mar 25, 2014 10:38:28 GMT 12
Great footage of the RNZAF Corsairs at Bougainville there. I believe the chap with the pipe in his mouth is Harry Wigley, which if I am correct this would be No. 19 Squadron RNZAF Corsairs. he was the CO of that Squadron in their Corsair era.
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Post by corsair5517 on Mar 25, 2014 12:08:06 GMT 12
Yeah; I wondered if that wasn't HW, too!! I thought it was interesting because it showed the SU personnel hard at it; I especially liked the armourer smacking seven bells out of the 50 cal ammo with a rubber hammer... at least I hope it was a rubber hammer!!
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Post by davidd on Mar 25, 2014 17:14:42 GMT 12
Harry Wigley commanded 19 Squadron only during the first tour (Kittyhawks, Dec 43 - May 44); after that he commanded 4 Fighter OTU at Ardmore, then Ohakea (May - Oct 44), then was CO of Field HQ Piva (Bougainville) from mid-October 1944 in rank of W/C (when he did get to fly a Corsair, but suffered an undercarriage collapse).
David D
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Post by Dave Homewood on Mar 25, 2014 17:21:04 GMT 12
Ah yes, you're right. My mistake. So, do you reckon that is him anyway? Maybe it's not.
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Post by corsair5517 on Mar 25, 2014 22:41:20 GMT 12
I''ll send the clip to my father and see what he knows....
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Post by baz62 on Mar 26, 2014 15:12:23 GMT 12
Great film, man those bombs are huge. Would they be 500 or 1000 pounders?
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