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Post by suthg on Jul 11, 2016 13:33:25 GMT 12
r5868 - Kerry,
on 3/3/45 during a raid on the Dortmund/ Ems Canal at Ladbergen.
My Uncle was flying a Lanc on a similar raid (44 Rhodesian Squadron) earlier on 7th February 1945, it seemed a difficult target to hit accurately and was mentioned after their raid that very little damage had occurred. (was described as Laderbergen Dortmund-EMS aquaduct, River Glane). Hence your Uncle's raid a month later.
Welcome to the forum. Graeme
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Post by roger1 on Jul 13, 2016 12:34:46 GMT 12
Hey there everyone. I just found this site and it's given me the push i needed to write my Dads war time story. Dad was born in the Uk but went to NZ in 1939 and joined up with the RNZAF. I'll put the full account with pictures over on the wartime RNZAF page.
Rog
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Post by baronbeeza on Jul 13, 2016 12:47:30 GMT 12
Welcome Rog. I am sure you will enjoy writing the story just as much as we will reading it. Looking forward to it.
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Post by planewriting on Jul 13, 2016 18:07:21 GMT 12
I recently signed up on the forum as I there were a few things cropping up for which I could supply answers both from personal knowledge and from the invaluable Aviation Historical Society Journals. I have been an AHSNZ member since 1970 and I am currently the Vice President. I come from an aviation background with my father being involved in aviation starting with the Waikato Branch of the Auckland Aero Club at Te Rapa in 1935 till his retirement on the last day of NAC on 31 March 1978 not to mention his RAF wartime secondment in addition to late and post war RNZAF service. Personally I had an "appreciable" amount of glider flying with the Auckland Gliding Club and I am still an Associate Member even though I left Auckland in 1981. I recently retired to Tauranga. For nearly 30 years I wrote "The Register" column in Gliding Kiwi but that publication went out of production in 2007. These days I am historian for Vintage Kiwi Glider Club which attracts a respectable chunk of New Zealand glider pilots interested in our older gliders hence the photo of me in Olympia ZK-GAA at Drury during the club's 80th birthday party. Since 2000 I have written and proof read books on New Zealand airline history with Richard Waugh, Graeme McConnell and Bruce Gavin. I wasted no time on moving to Tauranga to join Classic Flyers Museum, which is going from strength to strength. On Sunday afternoons I volunteer as a museum guide and on Mondays and Fridays volunteer as an archivist. We are building up a considering library of books (for lending to our members), photographs and artefacts. Our archive section shares the hangar with a Harvard, an Aermacchi,three Victa Airtourers (for rebuild) and the Avenger which is nearly ready for painting. Folk, if you are visiting Tauranga then come and look at our three hangars of display items. This is the only forum of which I am a member. Peter Layne
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jul 13, 2016 19:05:23 GMT 12
It's really great to finally have you on the forum Peter!
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Post by camtech on Jul 13, 2016 19:40:14 GMT 12
Yes, welcome aboard officially, Peter. Les Billcliff
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Post by planewriting on Jul 13, 2016 20:46:54 GMT 12
Thank you Les. I figured out your identity a while back. Thank you too Dave. You will recall I promised you when I gave you and Peter Lewis a lift in Masterton that I would join up one day . . .
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Post by picarfou80 on Nov 14, 2016 3:16:49 GMT 12
Hello everyone, my surmane is Franck, i'm french. I am interested in history and models kits. I am looking for all information concerning the F / O HALL which crashed in May 1943 in Métigny (80 Somme) Sorry for my bad english... Franck
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Post by Dave Homewood on Nov 14, 2016 7:38:27 GMT 12
Welcome Franck
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Post by suthg on Nov 14, 2016 11:37:32 GMT 12
Welcome Franck - was he a Typhoon pilot? - there is knowledge of a Hall that I have at home. Or was he in a fighter, bomber or Mosquito?
Graeme
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Post by errolmartyn on Nov 14, 2016 12:03:57 GMT 12
Hello everyone, my surmane is Franck, i'm french. I am interested in history and models kits. I am looking for all information concerning the F / O HALL which crashed in May 1943 in Métigny (80 Somme) Sorry for my bad english... Franck From Vol Two of my For Your Tomorrow - A record of New Zealanders who have died while serving with the RNZAF and Allied Air Services since 1915 : Tue 18 May 1943 FIGHTER COMMAND Ramrod - attack on airfield at Poix, France 3 Squadron, RAF (West Malling, Kent - 11 Group) Typhoon IB R8979/N - took off at 0605 with seven others, being one of five which failed to return. The target was bombed satisfactorily but almost immediately afterwards the formation was bounced by enemy fighters. Five Typhoons fell to the defending fighters or flak, R8979 crashing and burning out at Laqueue de Vache near Métigny, 19km NNW of Poix-de-la-Somme, where the pilot is buried. Pilot: NZ413061 Fg Off Douglas Ross HALL, RNZAF - Age 21. 490hrs. 18th op. And from Vol Three (Biographies & Appendices): HALL, Flying Officer Douglas Ross. NZ413061; b Auckland 10 Aug 21; Auckland Grammar; clerk - Wright Stephenson & Co, Auckland. RNZAF Levin/ITW as Airman Pilot u/t 25 May 41, 3EFTS 6 Jul 41, 2FTS 16 Aug 41, Pilots Badge [wef 29.9.41] & Sgt 8 Nov 41, att RAF & emb for UK 17 Nov 41, 3PRC 26 Dec 41, 17(P)AFU 2 Feb 42, 56OTU (Hurricane) 17 Mar 42, 3 Sqn (Hurricane, Typhoon; 18 ops) 19 May 42, Comm 20 Sep 42, kao 18 May 43. Poix-de-la-Somme Churchyard - E.10, Somme, France. Son of Harry & Mary Hall, Auckland. Errol
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Post by picarfou80 on Nov 15, 2016 10:04:33 GMT 12
Welcome Franck - was he a Typhoon pilot? - there is knowledge of a Hall that I have at home. Or was he in a fighter, bomber or Mosquito? Graeme I contacted the AIR FORCE MUSEUM OF NEW ZEALAND who gave me this information: Tue 18 May 1943
FIGHTER COMMAND
Ramrod - attack on airfi eld at Poix, France
3 Squadron, RAF (West Malling, Kent - 11 Group)
Typhoon IB R8979/N - took off at 0605 with seven others, being one of fi ve which failed to return. The target
was bombed satisfactorily but almost immediately afterwards the formation was bounced by enemy fi ghters. Five
Typhoons fell to the defending fi ghters or fl ak, R8979 crashing and burning out at Laqueue de Vache near Métigny,
19km NNW of Poix-de-la-Somme, where the pilot is buried.
Pilot: NZ413061 Fg Off Douglas Ross HALL, RNZAF - Age 21. 490hrs. 18th op.
They gave me a biography of the F / O HALL. I also retrieved copies of the pages of the book:"Three's Company" by Jack T C Long. I'm looking for photography about the pilot and his plande if it's possible.
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Post by picarfou80 on Nov 15, 2016 10:06:28 GMT 12
Thank you for your answers.
Cordially.
Franck
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Post by suthg on Nov 15, 2016 10:57:42 GMT 12
OK - sorry left home late this morning and forgot to bring a specific book to work. Thanks for the details - I'll see if they line up with what was published as stories, memoirs of a Mr Hall, Typhoon pilot in this book that I have which has a history of Typhoons in service.
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Post by suthg on Nov 15, 2016 20:33:28 GMT 12
Oh I found the chapter on F/L Tom T Hall DFC of 175 Squadron, an Australian originally trained in RAAF. So it was a different pilot. Sorry.
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Post by captainsensible on Dec 2, 2016 9:28:02 GMT 12
Captain Sensible is on board.
I will be flying you towards the truth of Tracey Curtis Taylor and her amazing voyages after she left Auckland and a class three commercial pilots ticket at Ardmore
Captain Sensible is based in the northern hemisphere where it gets cold and dark in winter but the truth is always rising on the horizon.
Standby for news coming in from the NZ Warbirds team in Auckland.
Could it be one of their former star members is about to collect another new award to add to the many she has received in London?
Captain Sensible will be asking questions and revealing the truth on how Tracey Curtis Taylor has eclipsed Jean Batten to become a 21 century NZ flying heroine .
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Post by errolmartyn on Dec 2, 2016 12:20:33 GMT 12
Tracey Curtis Taylor has eclipsed Jean Batten to become a 21 century NZ flying heroine. Only someone grossly ignorant of aviation history could make such a ludicrous claim. (It's not April 1st today, is it?!) Errol
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Post by hunternut on Dec 2, 2016 14:16:01 GMT 12
Hey guys and gals. I'm Jamie Bigham from Dunedin (ex Tauranga). 41yrs old. Haven't been in the military due to the fact that I have Spina Bifida, but have done glider training, skydived a couple of times, flown many times on many types, and am obviously an aviation nutcase. I've been lurking on this site for many years, but have only now got off my backside and joined ranks.
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Post by skyhawkdon on Dec 2, 2016 19:09:16 GMT 12
Welcome Jamie, great to have you on board.
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Post by pompiergold75 on Jan 13, 2017 9:57:26 GMT 12
What's your name? Kerry Gordon Where are you from? Tauranga, New Zealand How old are you? 48 What is your main interest in aviation? Model making and flying (when money and time permits) Tell us about your background in aviation ? Grew up around the bases (Ohakea, Whenuapai, Hobsonville, Woodbourne);cadet cpl ATC 41 Sqn, passenger in many aircraft incl helicopters Do you belong to any aviation groups, like the NZ Warbirds, RNZAF Association, Royal Aeronautical Society or CAF, etc? Supporter Classic Flyers Tauranga Are you an aircraft modeller? Yes, starting to get back into RNZAF aircraft after several years of building fire trucks. My RNZAF stash needs to be built What are your favourite aviation books? Reach for the Sky, The Wooden Horse What are your favourite aviation films or TV programmes? Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines, Battle of Britian, Top Gun and Planes Fire Rescue. Do you frequent other aviation forums? No
Having just completed 25 years as an operational volunteer firefighter (past 10 as an officer) needing this change to get back into modelling
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