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9th November 2024, 17:06
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Re: eBay: Allied intrest
Post # 3196 (KAKI). A memorial presumably to the RAF airmen killed in the bombers listed ( Wellington / Blenheim/ Whitley ?/ Hampden ), not unusual this early in the war; the inscription reads (as I see it)... " In his mind he counts his loved ones because these are the ones missing".
Nick 
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11th November 2024, 22:22
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12th November 2024, 23:15
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https://www.ebay.com/itm/40532750569...QAAOSwAOxnKPq6
https://www.ebay.de/itm/226445873516...Bk9SR4KV5qLkZA
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#3204
13th November 2024, 13:31
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This is an odd collection (photo 1), the 368BS was with the 306BG Eighth AF; B-17F 42-30667 ("Wild children") was 390BG also Eighth AF, lost 11-12-43 on the Emden mission.
"Frank Buck" ( B-17E 41-2659) is interesting, 19BG then 43BG Fifth AF; she force-landed on the beach at Hood Point PNG Sept.15 1942 after a Rabaul raid and some PSP matting was delivered by boat to help her take-off to P. Moresby. The markings above the name are 5 Rising sun flags. Her nickname was "Bring 'em back alive", Buck was a famous game hunter. There is an account of the 42-30667 event in the Netherlands here: http://franckruffino.chez.com/My-Sit...2042-30667.htm Regards Nick
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13th November 2024, 15:12
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14th November 2024, 23:23
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15th November 2024, 01:02
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Images 1, 2, 3 above seem to be Whitley V of 102 Squadron N1377
https://asn.flightsafety.org/wikibase/53865
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Best wishes Tim O. Looking for any information or documents relating to: Alfred Schmittka 5./KG 54; Josef Harmeling 4.(Schlacht)/LG 2; Wilhelm Gaul 1./106, 2./906 & III./KG 40; Karl Müller I./KG 2; Werner Breese 5.(F)/122
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#3209
15th November 2024, 12:58
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Photos 4-5, the much-photographed B-17F 42-3040 OR-Q (91BG) "Miss Ouachita" shot down by Maj. Heinz Baer 6./JG1 on 21 Feb. 1944 (some sources say 22nd. but MACR 2457 has 21st.); she was strafed by US fighters on the ground. This was Mission 228 but the 1st. Division had no PFF aircraft so bombed targets of opportunity.
Nick
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