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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Mr Skrunts on 13 August 2015, 09:43:09
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http://www.SLady bitshorpetelegraph.co.uk/OPERATION-EAGLE-13-Spitfires-set-stage/story-27594669-detail/story.html
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Thanks for that. I have alerted my family in Gods' Own. :y
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Low cloud?
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That will be a day to remember for the rest of your life! :y
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Sadly saw nor heard anything. :-\
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Yep,pretty low cloud today.However they were flying below it,what a beautiful sight and awesome sound track too :y
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Got word this was happening from family of my girlfriend, but sadly they must've come within a mile of my work, but I saw nothing - she was at home about two mile away and saw them cruise overhead. Close but no Spitfire!
I was at the somethingth anniversary of the design of the Spitire when I was a child, and there was the then-largest gathering of them in the air - 21 or thereabouts if I remember rightly. That in indelibly imprinted on my mind :y
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Yep,pretty low cloud today.However they were flying below it,what a beautiful sight and awesome sound track too :y
What was it the Ride of the Valkyries? Where was it coming from? The planes?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V92OBNsQgxU
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Sound track definitely from the aircraft,what other sound do you need? :y
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7 not 8 spits over Pompey Tuesday afternnoon :y
I like listening to the old stories from ppl who where there in the city at the time of WW2. :) One of the German raids targeted the railway network of the city, hitting the harbour station etc. One Cosham resident at the time told me her Uncle (fireman) was runinng down Cosham high street as the raid grew in intensity. He was making for a point south of Cosham station. A bomb came hurtling down only yards from the station, clipped the front of the cinema but didn`t go off. It skipped-up off the road & flew over the railway gates & smashed thru the top of a 2 storey building & flew another quarter mile east before burying itself near some playing fields. :o She pointed out the clearly visible repaired brickwork on the front of the building following the repair after the war.
My Mum tells the storey of a German raid on Thorney Island (coastal command airfield) The Landmines being dropped drifted north & one went off in Emsworth creek. She & her Mum & little brother were in the shelter & felt the explosion. When they came up followng the raid. the blast had knocked the front door in & travelled up the stairs & out thru the roof. The following morning the kids started finding shredded parts of the landmine parachute. The next day german fighter / bombers flew the length of the railway between chichester & Pompey shooting up the trains & stations, One A/c circled back around to target the gasometer in Emsworth. He missed & went around for a second time. The spits from tangmere clobbered him on his second pass. She recalls seeing the german aircraft smoking & flying south out to sea.