Todd I am honored to have met you and being able to call you a friend is really important to me. Colin.

I will be at Royal Air Force Blake Hill Farm here in Wiltshire on Sunday as usual. This long gone RAF station was used for the D-Day landings and ceas...

Well I think 12 would work but I make it 15+ and the one thing a lower number would affect is our relationship with the Crowne Plaza's attitude to roo...

Hi Marion, I totally agree that some thought is needed on this before the annual reunion ceases to exist by default! No one is here to mak...

Randy, Thank you for reviving my post with the information about the glider crash. I had never heard of this! Colin.

Frank, You might like to try this if you have not already seen? Pages: 371- 73 and 420. Colin.

Hi Phillip, The 342nd appears a number of times in the volume we call our "bible" 0n WW2. Pages 38, 271, 346-47, 353-54 and 398. Th...

One of my hero's from WW2, Ernie Pyle would have recognised this and probably written about it. I'm reading his BRAVE MEN at the moment and "shave tai...

Thank you for this Todd. I'm going to my library catalogue to see if Mr Samuel's books are listed. Colin.

I spent some time this morning going through the above posts. The story of Edward Lawson shows what WW2 research is all about and it also shows the va...

That is amazing after all this time to find Rocky again. I must say it looks like he is being well cared for. Colin.

Marion. If this is Dragoon don't we have the perfect person to discuss them with at the reunion in October? Colin.

I am sad to hear of the death of John and his wife. I am even sadder to think that you and I never made that trip to see them we talked about. As al...

Marion, I'm either preaching to the converted or talking out of turn! With the current situation regarding WW2 veterans, is there no possibili...

Hello Ed and thank you for this post and to Marion for passing it on. What an interesting list and was it as much a roller-coaster as it looks? No...