"Douglas Dildy" wrote in message
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'Dave Kearton[_3_ Wrote:
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Hi Dave,

My name is Doug Dildy and I am new to the forum.

I came here because of my professional (retired USAF F-15 pilot) and
avocational interests (author of military and aviation history books
and articles).



G'day Doug,

Must say from the outset, that it's people like yourself who make me wish I
was a lot brighter and tried harder in school.




I am currently composing an article on the USAS formation in WWI and
noticed that you had contributed an image of '148th American' Camels on
the 'Gordon's Picks' thread back in 2006.



Whoaa, that was a while ago. Back then, I was posting pics to
usenet for a good friend of mine, Gordon Permann.

Gordon is an ex-sailor, an ASW crewman on Seasprite heloes, a sea rescue
swimmer who has two live rescues to his credit. Operating from small
frigates and the Eisenhower at he far ends of the planet, where the water is
cold and survival times are depressingly short.

In brighter times, he served with distinction as a P-3 crewman and part of
the intelligence gathering effort on Diego Garcia.



Today Gordon has AOL.



AOL is a binary deficiency that progressively renders the user cut off from
the usenet world.


What started out as the occasional missing binary post, slowly worsened to
not being able to post at all - binary or text. Finally his condition
worsened to not even being able to see any binary messages.


There is no cure for users with AOL. Help desks have no solution, there is
no hope on the horizon, no light at the end of the tunnel and sadly, no
tunnel.






This week is AOL week here on usenet.



Please give generously; your donation could be the one that helps people
like Gordon to post normally again.





I have been unable to locate anything but an official USAF
Museum/Historical Research Agency version of this image and it is
fairly low resolution. I was wondering if you have a high rez version
I can 'borrow' for my article -- to be published in the next issue of
Aviation Classics magazine. I will of course give you full credit in
the source citation for providing the photo.


This and all of the 'Gordon's Pics' or 'Gordon's Pix' and many other series
are scans from Gordon Permann's private collection. He picks up old
photo albums at garage sales, deceased estates and various other sources

You can contact him here or here
.....


....but not here alt.binaries.pictures.aviation.






I hope you're having a great weekend and I hope to be corresponding
with you more in the future.

Cheers,
Doug Dildy





Thanks Doug, It's ANZAC Day here in Australia. It's the one day
every year where we honour our servicemen and remember their sacrifices in
war and peace. I've just returned from the dawn service, but
couldn't stay for the march. I'm recording it on TV, looking out for my
regiment, and may post fragments of it later.


Otherwise, it's shaping up to be a fine autumn weekend, I'm looking forward
to getting out in the garden tomorrow.



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Cheers

Dave Kearton