tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2388717540545987605.post7813047629346519902..comments2024-01-26T19:48:37.576+00:00Comments on crivens jings and help ma blog: Through These Portals Go The Bravest Of Men.....Alistairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16667242161539996736noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2388717540545987605.post-5929339878707384732016-10-17T21:48:27.106+01:002016-10-17T21:48:27.106+01:00Excellent Blog. My Sister in Laws Grandfather was ...Excellent Blog. My Sister in Laws Grandfather was the first Pilot of 'Fair Fighters Revenge'PSF while she was still with 166 Sqn. He had completed his Tour prior to her moving to Scampton with the formation of 153 Sqn. 'LEST WE FORGET' JOHN WOODSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2388717540545987605.post-25114422310058943422012-04-06T17:15:00.829+01:002012-04-06T17:15:00.829+01:00Thanks for visiting and commenting Steven. I'l...Thanks for visiting and commenting Steven. I'll have a look and see if there is any more info about the crew. Pretty much all the info I have about operations is included in the posts covering Jan to May but I may have some info about prior to that.<br /><br />I'll have a look and email you direct when I have something - but shouldn't be too long. If you don't hear from me get back in touch - I'm getting forgetful in my old age {ha ha}Alistairhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16667242161539996736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2388717540545987605.post-77921073654127523002012-04-06T15:09:49.870+01:002012-04-06T15:09:49.870+01:00Just found your blog. I am the son of William Ian ...Just found your blog. I am the son of William Ian Hamilton Turner, the radio operator in the Lancaster piloted by Whiz Wheeler. Dad passed away in 1994, and he was very reticent to speak too much about the war, but he did mention he saw a bomb go through the wing on one mission - and the rest of the crew would not believe him. Also that he had a forced landing in Eindhoven... but hadn't mentioned opening the hatch! Would like to know any more there is to know about his crew and his time in the UK. I am contactable on turner.steven@abc.net.au Many thanks,<br />STeven Turner (sydney aust)StevenThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12964041114492615778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2388717540545987605.post-26549423933955755852010-07-04T04:22:18.181+01:002010-07-04T04:22:18.181+01:00Very well written and very much appreciated. As I ...Very well written and very much appreciated. As I said in a previous comment, your father and mine flew together in 153 sqn from October 1944 to Jan 1945 when dad transferred to 582 pathfinder sqn. I found the latter blogs very touching and was reduced to tears as I considered deeply what you had written. If you would like to make conatct with me I would very much like to hear from you. My email address is jdighton@hotmail.com. I have just recently started to research my fathers time in the RAF and hence I came across your wee blog.<br /><br />Sincerely,<br /><br />John DightonJohn Dightonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2388717540545987605.post-66486621179430417912010-05-04T00:24:52.103+01:002010-05-04T00:24:52.103+01:00Received by email from F Powley, 153 W/Commander P...Received by email from F Powley, 153 W/Commander Powley's nephew.Dear Al - Just to tell you how much I enjoyed your very informative and equally moving blog on 153 sq's career during the final months of the war. Your blog is certainly the most comprehensive and personal history of the squadron I've come across. I salute your time and effort in producing such a document, and your ability to compile a complicated story from diverse sources. I noted especially your moving account of the fateful night of 4 April. Though, of course, I never met my namesake uncle Frank, and the family rarely spoke of him - at least in my presence - nevertheless, my research, including your blog, has afforded me a peculiar at-a-distance acquaintance with the man. Perhaps, more importantly, these war stories have made me appreciate all the more the courage, determination and seeming tirelessness of the men like him and your Dad who were caught up in that emergency of civilization, which is total war. My own father, too, was a navigator in 61 squadron in the final two years of the war, having left secretly for duty in England just days after his wedding. My mother, not one to be left behind to keeping the home fires burning, went to Washington to work for British Intelligence at the embassy there. Meanwhile, her brother, my uncle Jack was listed as missing in 1943 after his Halifax was shot down over Holland. As it turned out, he sat out the rest of the war at a POW camp just outside Auschwitz. He only recently posted his harrowing story on the BBC website dedicated to personal remembrances of WW2. My own father hardly ever talked about his war experience, although I knew he had crashed twice returning from sorties and still had shrapnel in the one leg. My mother, talkative as she is, signed the official secrets act, which I suppose still applies. Anyway, when I think what a relatively easy time of it I've had, especially in my wild 60s youth and since coming to live in welfare state Denmark, I can almost blush.<br />So thanks again for your wee blog.<br />There is one thing I wanted to ask you about the final entry. That is your reference to a group squadron photo. I don't believe I've ever seen it, unless somehow I missed it on your blog. I am wondering if you would be so kind as to scan it and send it to me as an attachment. Oh, and thanks for including in your blog for 4 April that group photo of Major Werner Husemann and crew, the first I'd seen. Let me know if there is anything more I can help you out with in your research.<br />I raise my glass, cheers,<br />FrankAlistairhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16667242161539996736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2388717540545987605.post-21494829581547760672010-05-04T00:22:45.861+01:002010-05-04T00:22:45.861+01:00Received by email onto original post and re-posted...Received by email onto original post and re-posted here<br /><br />Hello<br />my dad was the Reggie Morris F/Eng in Noel Crane's crew mentioned in the item about the gardening trip on 12 March 1945. Unfortunately he died age 50 in 1975 so I cant give you any more information. He never mentioned this incident although he did say that they had been badly shot up twice - once by flak and the other by night fighter. And he used to talk about "brown trouser" missions. He also hated the sea and the wind - which may well have been a result of this incident! He must have known your father.<br />Phil MorrisAlistairhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16667242161539996736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2388717540545987605.post-89687060917723924632010-05-02T01:51:49.356+01:002010-05-02T01:51:49.356+01:00Err no not yet, lots of excuses though...Err no not yet, lots of excuses though...OldTrumptonianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06063236341554966823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2388717540545987605.post-41663095494806065782010-05-02T00:02:33.829+01:002010-05-02T00:02:33.829+01:00Thanks for your comments here. That was the toughe...Thanks for your comments here. That was the toughest one to write. I'm almost sad its coming to an end.<br /><br />God knows what I'm going to post after all this.....<br /><br />Thanks again.<br /><br />How 'bout you Old Trumptonian. Have you done anything on yours yet?Alistairhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16667242161539996736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2388717540545987605.post-79955498601962174432010-05-01T17:47:53.931+01:002010-05-01T17:47:53.931+01:00Thank you for giving me this often deeply private ...Thank you for giving me this often deeply private insight into your Dad and the men he served with and their exploits.<br />I hope you preserve it somehow, it is a goldmine of information for anyone in the future who wants find out about 153 Squadron.OldTrumptonianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06063236341554966823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2388717540545987605.post-30233836940102736462010-04-30T15:07:37.911+01:002010-04-30T15:07:37.911+01:00Al,
I have yet to go back to where I had to leave ...Al,<br />I have yet to go back to where I had to leave off regular reading in mid-February--just as I've had to put my own family research on hold.<br />I do feel, although you have taken "chunks" of information from existing sources, that your account has its own validity.<br />I beleive that in some final form it should be published--even if privately so, as my cousins and I hope to do with our g-uncle's WWI letters. War--or any other huge event--is so often seen in an over-view--bringing it "down home" helps us to understand what happened, and how it affected the lives of those who were invovled and the lives of their families for several generations.Morning's Minionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01912356455981434029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2388717540545987605.post-18107794648465661012010-04-30T08:00:34.391+01:002010-04-30T08:00:34.391+01:00You may have noticed Al that I have mostly refrain...You may have noticed Al that I have mostly refrained from commenting on your very personal mission. I have however read it all ,,, every painful & sometimes tearful word, brilliantly written. All I want to say is, you sure as hell got the message across.<br />Your Dad would have been so proud of you, just as you are of him.The Scudderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15382592033956628186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2388717540545987605.post-35120091983971573682010-04-30T03:59:26.858+01:002010-04-30T03:59:26.858+01:00Wonderful.
KatWonderful.<br />KatKat_RNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14008977319279272365noreply@blogger.com