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Re: Looking for Halifax's serial
Rethink? No, I don't think so!
All research is theory that is updated, and revised, in the light of new evidence, and as such is welcomed. if someone refutes my theory and shows valid evidence as to why, then I am as happy as they are!
If I got 'Angry' every time someone doubted my research, I wouldn't be much good as a researcher!
The research for truth is not down to "I'm right, you're wrong", (or vice versa), it's that the end result is the truth. (Funny thing, I was going to put 'French' Canadian, and thought better of it!)
To rephrase my earlier statement, and qualify it: In general terms Nose art was 'frowned upon' by superiors in Special Duties Squadrons due to the nature of their missions. Couple this to the fact that many crews in SD squadrons were allocated aircraft on a 'mission' basis rather than as a permanent thing. Hence Nose art was very rare in 148, the squadron that I, and my group research, but this does not mean to say that it 'never' happened.
Another point, is that with an expected life span of just a few weeks with an SD squadron, and with evidence from the ORB's of nightly missions, would they have had time to put it on?
1586 Flt, (later 301 Sqdn PAF), worked 'hand in glove' with several 'SD related' squadrons, they seldom changed the 'livery', on a 'one off' borrowing of an aircraft, but would have changed the livery to the Polish one, and a 'GR-?' ident if the transfer was permanent, and the nose art would have been lost in the repaint.
There is an old Tibetan saying, which sums up the problem nicely: "If you have a thousand monks in a monastery, then you also have a thousand religions"
Terry Maker
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