@missiontoofar
Here for history & wargaming. Predominantly Napoleonic Wars & 2WW, in particular Bomber Command & my RAAF G.Uncle Keith ‘Steve’ Stevens’ career - 57 Sqn Wireless Op, Sigs Leader, Evader. Interested in veteran testimony and research.
Yeah more or less now thanks. I could have done with losing weight but I am / was on a whack load of steroids so I just wanted to eat everything I could find (more than normal). 😂
Urgh grim.
Although I would say the food was much better than expected.
I had a week on an acute ward in January. A bay with 5 others who on the face of it appeared much more unwell than me. It was bleak to say the least.
The lord giveth (Escape to the Country on the waiting room TV) and the Lord taketh away (the temperature in here is unbearably hot) hospitals eh aaaam I right?
The 2011 laptop has finally given up. It’s done well since its systems are so out of date, it’s full of sand and sounds like an old washing machine on an aggressive cycle.
Went to the local computer shop most people pass on the way to Currys and they were super helpful. New laptop purchased.
A packed house. Tonight the IBCC… tomorrow Wembley. Sorry I couldn’t make it.
Lovely spot at Shuttleworth today to do some pre-day job book prep.
Fantastic JS!
Holy moly. Frogs been busy.
I love the rocket battery John. 👌🏼
Morning! Ep 66 is out today. Erik Parker tells the story of 2 Group and the low level, daylight raid on Rotterdam in 1941.
www.buzzsprout.com/2327200/epis...
Love your style Jeff. These are great.
Haha. Yeah the Duck needed some positive PR after it banged out a coot so convinced the Air Marshal to pick him up.
We’ve got a PR opportunity here Arthur. We need to come across a bit more fluffy, you know approachable….. ‘I’ve got just the thing.’
1941 RAAF medical examinations give rise to some excellent band names. ‘Pendant Testicle’ and ‘Defective Intelligence’ are front runners and will no doubt be on a 1979 Top of the Pops soon.
Interesting listen as ever.
The postman dropped this in. Not a change of interest but looking at the troops who liberated the area in which my Uncle was hiding. Looking to get hold of the war diaries. I gather also the 113th Cavalry were providing a recce screen. Keen to get into some detail of what elements were where.
This will be excellent if you can make it.
Allyness saves lives
Spot the Australian.
A bit of writing for a drizzly evening activity.
New quality ear food.
Yes it is late isn’t it. I’ve been amongst the BDU papers which illustrates loads of trials happening much later than you’d expect when stuff (tech or aircraft) is still well in service. It reminds me that 1) they didn’t know when the war would end and 2) sometimes the best R&D is in service.
Oh my lord 🙄😂😭
Yes. Ultimately this is decided to be the likely cause although a combination of the two is probably true. Detection of signal and also anyone following the same course as the chap in front is ultimately going to be easier to find.
It’s often written as a linear experience. This is what we did. This is what they did etc… but even a glance in papers like this reveal the constant churn of tech and tactics was quite the battle in itself. Until you’ve some results you can’t analyse this things and results mean casualties.
H2S not HS2 🚂🚂🚂
… aircraft were just easier to find as they were following the more predictable route, find one, find the next.
It illustrates the constant balancing act between aids, countermeasures and the constant enemy threat.
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With my nose in Bombing Development Unit papers over the weekend. One thing that stood out was the flipside to H2S. That losses for aircraft with HS2 outstripped losses of aircraft without for a time. Theories around the signals being detectable or simply that HS2 fitted…
Inspired by the Winter Olympics…. But not to take up a sport….