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peter wrote:Was Ludovic kennedy a serving officer on one of the ships involved in the hunt for the Bismatk and was his father the captain of the armed merchant cruiser Jervis Bay sunk by one of the pocket battleships?.
Dugald wrote:I'd be a bit hesitant about calling it "Britains biggest naval loss after the Royal Oak". I'd think the loss of the 'Hood', and the combined loss of the 'Prince of Wales' & Repulse', would have been rated as greater than either the 'Royal Oak' or the 'Thrasher'..
junkcatcher wrote:It was a body wash ashore from Dasher at Farlie that was used for "The Man Who Never Was" intelligence D Day decoy operation to devert attention from the normandy beaches.
Apparently the body an AB from Wales and not a Scot as in the film.
escotregen wrote:Another wee poser for you... what was the other connection in WW2 between the old British Fairey Swordfish aircraft and the high-tech Japanese torpedo aircraft? (and no, it wasn't that all their torpedoes were produced at Alexandria on the Clyde
Dugald wrote:...... could the shrapnel have come from such a big 'bomb'?
.Or it could be a bit of a Japanese Torpedo
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AlanM wrote:
I suppose the starting point for researching this would be to look at newspapers of the time, Mitchell Library here we come
Alan
Period newspapers will tell you nothing. Locations weren't published at the time for security reasons.
Socceroo wrote:Interesting find Hollowhorn, i find it quite sad, i recall reading that the family were killed in Scotstoun at home on Queen Victoria Drive.
I think one of the photographs earlier in this thread has a photograph of their street decimated following the air raid.
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