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the Kamikazi that hit the Australia...
Re The Kamikazi Prop wreckage from the Zero that hit the front funnel of the
Cruiser "Australia", When I was about 9 years old I traded some Black Hawk comics for the Aircraft Identification plate from THAT Zero with the kid next door. My mate David's father worked at the Garden Island dockyard in Sydney during the war years, and his father scored the ID plate (which was about 120mm x 100, black with Japanese writing brass plate )from the wreckage of that Zero. I don't know if he retrieved it himself from the wreckage, or traded it with a sailor who had, but anyway I ended up with it and had it in my collection of really unusual bits for more than 50 years, but about 10 years ago I noticed it missing....I rember saying that the Zero hit the front funnel and low and behold, heres a photo on alt.binaries.pictures.aviation Thanks a lot for that pic Dave, brought back memories. Ronaldo8 ----------------------------------------------------------- Posted using Android Newsgroup Downloader: .... http://www.sb-software.com/android ----------------------------------------------------------- |
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the Kamikazi that hit the Australia...
ronaldoB wrote:
Re The Kamikazi Prop wreckage from the Zero that hit the front funnel of the Cruiser "Australia", When I was about 9 years old I traded some Black Hawk comics for the Aircraft Identification plate from THAT Zero with the kid next door. My mate David's father worked at the Garden Island dockyard in Sydney during the war years, and his father scored the ID plate (which was about 120mm x 100, black with Japanese writing brass plate )from the wreckage of that Zero. I don't know if he retrieved it himself from the wreckage, or traded it with a sailor who had, but anyway I ended up with it and had it in my collection of really unusual bits for more than 50 years, but about 10 years ago I noticed it missing....I rember saying that the Zero hit the front funnel and low and behold, heres a photo on alt.binaries.pictures.aviation Thanks a lot for that pic Dave, brought back memories. Ronaldo8 Thank you - the world just got a fraction smaller. -- Cheers Dave Kearton |
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