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    D-Days Sunken Secrets TV

    in Archaeology - WW1 to the end of the cold war

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    Just noticed a TV programme on tomorrow night Monday 19th on Channel 5. D-Days Sunken secrets, hour and a half long, looks like it could be worth a watch.

     

    http://www.channel5.com/shows/d-days-sunken-secrets/episodes/d-days-sunken-secrets

     

    June 6 1944 saw the world’s biggest amphibious assault, one of the most important military campaigns in history and a pivotal moment in the Second World War. For generations, historians, archaeologists and other experts, in their attempts to reconstruct the events of the day, have scoured every battlefield – except one.

    Just off the coast of Normandy is a lost graveyard, where hundreds of objects lie on the sea bed. Using two mini-submarines, a team of historians, wreck detectives, scientists and veterans are on a quest to discover what lies below the waves.

    In summer of 2013, the multi-disciplinary team scoured a 500 square kilometre stretch of seabed. Among the astonishing objects they found were a curious collection of American Sherman tanks, specially adapted to float, and the wreck of the SS Leopoldville, a troopship hit by a German U-boat on December 24 1944 with the loss of 800 lives.

    In an emotional testimony, American D-Day veteran Bill Allen recalls his experiences as a teenage medic on a ship which ferried supplies into Normandy. On his fourth trip to the beaches, his ship hit amine and 94 of his shipmates died. Returning to Normandy for the first time, Bill takes a submarine to the seabed to pay his respects to those comrades who never returned.

    Submariner Jim Booth, now in his 90s, was part of a key five-man crew manning a midget submarine that lurked off the coast for days before the invasion. At first light on D-Day, they erected a light to guide landing craft safely on to the beach. The expedition team takes him on his first submarine trip since the Normandy landings.

    D-Day was not only a triumph of individual courage, but also a miracle of detailed planning and engineering brilliance. Tim Beckett’s father Alan was an engineer who had the crucial job of designing a deep sea harbour which would be used to supply the invasion. Tim now teams up with a computer graphics specialist and engineer to build a virtual model of Mulberry Harbour – Alan Beckett’s masterpiece without which the Normandy campaign could not have succeeded.

    Trying to find RAF members records

    in Research Centre

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    I looked at the pictures, and it's not R C Bass it's just Bass and he's a Roman Catholic. No initials should be put on tags at this time.

    The Service Number is from those allocated for Cardington entries early war, as you say, although he did not necessarily serve there.

    Thanks for that, I had no idea religion formed part of the tag, but it suppose it makes sense, thanks for that, I will do some more research.

    Trying to find RAF members records

    in Research Centre

    Posted

    I'm normally a dab hand at this sort of thing but finding it difficult to find any info. As in a previous thread, i found a pair of RAF dogtags in an RAF uniform. I can't seem to find any info on him, so if anyone can help I would be grateful.

    R.C. Bass

    RAF

    Service number 940189

    Fairly sure he served at RAF Cardington

    Thanks in advance

    Insurance on back of MVT magazine.

    in Legislation, Licenses & Registration

    Posted

    I'm sorry you can't get cover, I use the company mentioned and I have had nothing but First Class service from them over the years, so it may just be they do not understand the vehicle type and you need to get to actually speak to someone higher up who can help you. Currently I insure my '43 Ford GPW, Chevrolet G7107, Capri 2.8, Skoda Estelle :-D, London Taxi and a Lambretta LI 150 with them and they always go out of their way to help. :)

     

    Oooh, Skoda Estelle, nice. Was looking at getting one months ago. Had a customer once, many moons ago, who had its engine totally tuned. Rare as hens teeth now.

    Unusual swastika pennant i.d.

    in Clothing/uniforms

    Posted

    Talking to the boss of a local shop in town and the conversation swung to military vehicles etc. He then told me he had a german pennant that he found in a box when he moved from Iran many years ago, he had no idea of its worth or value so he said he would bring it in this week for me to look at. I popped in to see him today and looked at it, I have never seen one like it despite looking on the net etc. So I am posting up a couple of pics in the hope someone can give me any more info. Dimensions approx 13"x 7". thanks.

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