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Apr 19, 2012, 09:39 PM
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 British WWII P-40 found in the Sahara(EDIT MORE PHOTOS 4/24)
Last edited by EDDE; Apr 25, 2012 at 01:13 AM.
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Apr 19, 2012 09:39 PM
# ADS
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Apr 19, 2012, 09:44 PM
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 It's dangerous to be right when those with a thimbleful of perceived authority are wrong.
Looks like a very early model Brit export P40. Sweet post.
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Apr 20, 2012, 05:41 AM
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Edde,
hope all is well in DeKalb; all is well?
Nothing like all the facts in Polish. 
Take Care,
have a good un.....
SHERMANVILLE
In the academies many books, at the circus many sacks of peanuts, at the club rooms many cigar butts.
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Apr 20, 2012, 09:15 AM
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Amazing.
For you guys interested in this stuff look up, "The Lady Be Good"...I have the hardback book but I am am sure the story is online somewhere...amazing, tragic, and profoundly interesting story of a U.S. bomber lost in the deserts of Libya during WW II and found by oil exploration crews years later.
The desert environment is an amazing preservation environment...when powered up radios still worked, tire was still inflated..
Worth the time if you enjoy aviation and military history.
The faster I go the behinder I get...
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Apr 20, 2012, 11:02 AM
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 Originally Posted by Sam 8
Amazing.
For you guys interested in this stuff look up, "The Lady Be Good"...I have the hardback book but I am am sure the story is online somewhere...amazing, tragic, and profoundly interesting story of a U.S. bomber lost in the deserts of Libya during WW II and found by oil exploration crews years later.
The desert environment is an amazing preservation environment...when powered up radios still worked, tire was still inflated..
Worth the time if you enjoy aviation and military history.
Is that the story where they found one of the pilots diary talking about slowly dying from lack of food and water?
I believe I read that story, very sad.
Carl
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Apr 20, 2012, 02:57 PM
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It's dangerous to be right when those with a thimbleful of perceived authority are wrong.
Originally Posted by curbdiggercarl57
Is that the story where they found one of the pilots diary talking about slowly dying from lack of food and water?
I believe I read that story, very sad.
Carl
Yes sir,that is the one.
very sad,indeed. it is believed that the lack of proper navigation training led to their demise.
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Apr 20, 2012, 03:26 PM
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Have you read that during a recent visit to Singapore by our Prime Minister, it was revealed that 20 Spitfires had been found. I believe that negotiations are taking place, so that we can go and retrieve them.
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Apr 20, 2012, 03:29 PM
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It's dangerous to be right when those with a thimbleful of perceived authority are wrong.
Originally Posted by Unicorn
Have you read that during a recent visit to Singapore by our Prime Minister, it was revealed that 20 Spitfires had been found. I believe that negotiations are taking place, so that we can go and retrieve them.
There are a few posts here about that. Interesting story, I can't wait to see them reassembled.
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Apr 21, 2012, 01:41 AM
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When the going gets wierd, the wierd turn pro....
Most of that b24 is still in Libya at an airbase there. I wonder if anyone will ever try to get it now that things are changing over there.
"That's me, on the beach side combing the sand, metal meter in my hand, sporting a pocket full of change"...... NOFX
Now in the process of posting my antique photo collection at : http://forgottonimages.tumblr.com/
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Apr 21, 2012, 11:49 PM
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Originally Posted by SHERMANVILLE ILLINOIS
Edde,
hope all is well in DeKalb; all is well?
Nothing like all the facts in Polish.
Take Care,
have a good un.....
SHERMANVILLE
Its O.K. ,no time to really do anything now that I have a grand peanut.....cept read and troll....this new forum style sucks....
All animals are equal, but some are more equal then others. -George Orwell
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Apr 25, 2012, 08:45 PM
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All animals are equal, but some are more equal then others. -George Orwell
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Apr 25, 2012, 11:52 PM
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18C "De Oppresso Liber" "WP"
Originally Posted by EDDE
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If I was President; I would take away welfare! I wouldn't make any bargains with foreign countries! I wouldn't take #@*& from any country! I would close the borders! I would get rid of taxes! I would make EVERYONE own at least 5 guns! I would ENFORCE Finders Keepers Law !!!!!!!!
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May 10, 2012, 01:50 PM
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That P-40 site is about 30 miles from the Farafra Oasis in Egypt (as the crow flies). Been through that area a few years back. Nothing much there, although Dakhla is incredible.
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
~T. S. Eliot, The Rock
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May 13, 2012, 03:27 AM
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When the going gets wierd, the wierd turn pro....
"That's me, on the beach side combing the sand, metal meter in my hand, sporting a pocket full of change"...... NOFX
Now in the process of posting my antique photo collection at : http://forgottonimages.tumblr.com/
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