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Re: Is this beyond a restore ?
« Reply #210 on: Thursday 08 May 08 03:04 BST (UK) »
Poll I think you are absoluetly marvellous.  Grin Grin Grin

I have just come across this thread tonight, and strangely enough came across our own photo yesterday when I was decluttering my wardrobe.  I have just gone beetling upstairs to find it and had forgotten that it had the names of the men on it. So in case anyone might have had rellies in No 7 Pathfinder Force based at Oakington in Cambridgeshire in April 1945 I am posting it below. If you find a rellies name then I am afraid that you will have to count to get to him   Wink

I am afraid that I do not have the skill to put the 2 halves together like Wooley so if anyone is able to amalgamate them I would love to have a copy of the "whole" as it were.  I have taken the time to check that I havent cut anyones name off but there are a few "duplicated" men as it were

Fingers crossed ( as this is my first post of piccies Tongue Tongue Tongue)

Jackie

* No_7_Sqd_PFF_RAF__Oakington_April_1945.jpg (116.58 KB, 830x601 - viewed 200 times.)

* No_7_Sqd_PFF_Oakington_April_1945_p_2.jpg (112 KB, 829x600 - viewed 199 times.)
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« Reply #211 on: Thursday 08 May 08 06:32 BST (UK) »
Hi Jackie, and congratulations on posting your first photo Smiley

You will get better results if you post these in a new thread, though, as many people don't revisit old threads due to time or bandwidth restrictions. You will have to rename the pics because RC won't let you post the same photo more than once, but just adding a letter or number to the file name will do.

Great pic! Please do repost to share it with everybody.

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« Reply #212 on: Thursday 08 May 08 09:30 BST (UK) »
How smashing to have all the names there as well...that's a real lucky stroke....but imagime trying to put the names to the people, you would get about a dozen in from the side and....now was it that one or that one, and what row was I on and.......who am I? Cheesy
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« Reply #213 on: Thursday 08 May 08 10:15 BST (UK) »
Hi Jackie,

What a lovely picture, thank you for having put it up for us to see.

I recognise several names in there from my Dad's Service days.  I wonder if they are the same people.

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Re: Is this beyond a restore ?
« Reply #214 on: Thursday 08 May 08 10:49 BST (UK) »
Hi Jackie
Here it is, resized, and put back together again, with its rhs propellors repaired Wink Wink Wink
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« Reply #215 on: Thursday 08 May 08 10:53 BST (UK) »
Wow Mudge,

You are clever!  That is brilliant!

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« Reply #216 on: Thursday 08 May 08 10:57 BST (UK) »
Glad you approve Rabbit Embarrassed
Here's a slightly larger version Wink
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« Reply #217 on: Thursday 08 May 08 11:25 BST (UK) »
Oh thank you Mudge,

I am trying to read the names!  Super!

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« Reply #218 on: Thursday 08 May 08 14:11 BST (UK) »
Thank you very much indeed Mudge.  Grin Grin

It will certainly make it easier for people to find their rellies if they wish.

I have put a link to it on the WW2 board as well.

I do think it would be a great idea if we could set up a child board for this sort of thing with perhaps seperate parts for the Army, Navy and Raf and any other groups. I would love to see if anyone else has photos they wish to show. I have rellies who were in WW2 but I have no photos of them, maybe someone out there has  Wink

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Re: Is this beyond a restore ?
« Reply #219 on: Thursday 08 May 08 14:22 BST (UK) »



That's a wonderful photo JMP and to have the names as well, that's a bonus.

Thanks Mudge for putting it back together, it's brilliant.


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Re: Is this beyond a restore ?
« Reply #220 on: Thursday 08 May 08 15:37 BST (UK) »
Hi
Have repaired top of cockpit, and reposted above
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« Reply #221 on: Thursday 08 May 08 15:53 BST (UK) »
Thank you very much Mudge Wink It got chopped off in the scan Roll Eyes

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« Reply #222 on: Thursday 08 May 08 17:25 BST (UK) »
Jackie,
what a splendid photo - and with a name placard too. Can I strongly urge you to send a copy to The Royal Air Force Museum? 
research @rafmuseum.org
In addition you might like to go to
www.worldwar2exraf.co.uk
and search on 7 Squadron, where you will find a goodly number on unit veterans lined up for contact.
7 Squadron was at Oakington from 18 Aug 42 thru 23 Jly 45. Even without your specialist knowledge of the photo, it would be reckoned to be late war period, due to the IFF aerials on the nose sides and the clear vision panels on the nose blister of the Lanc.
By April 1945, there was very little left to bomb in Germany, so we might imagine that there is a background feeling of relief amongst the sitters.
Hope this helps.
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« Reply #223 on: Thursday 08 May 08 17:41 BST (UK) »
Thanks Dave, that is great information.

I will certainly go to the sites you suggest. Wink Wink

In fact my Dad is not on the photo itself. Roll Eyes Roll Eyes He was transferred to the Lancaster Finishing School in the April for conversion on to Lancastrians and subsequent secondment to BOAC in June so he must have been given the photo by his mates to remember them

I am very lucky in that he wanted to be a journalist and therefore kept a "diary" of sorts with details of  all the ops he went on (102) and has accompanied it with photos of the squadrons, Stirling, Wellington and Mosquito as well as the Lancs.  Alas most dont have the names on them. This is the "longest/largest" photo I have but others are smaller and equally impressive, but you do have to have good eyesight to spot him, and mine is fading fast Grin Grin

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« Reply #224 on: Thursday 08 May 08 18:12 BST (UK) »
Hi Jackie,
that photograph is absolutely superb!  I'm ex 7 Squadron myself (a bit later than the date of the photograph, though!), and also a member of 7 Squadron Association.  I have pointed out this thread to our Chairman.

If your father was on 7, you are also entitled to become a member of the Association.  Check out the website: http://www.7squadronassociation.org/

What other information do you have relating to the Squadron?

I've also sent you a pm.
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