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May 17th, 2006 at 7:39am

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Well on this day in 1943 that the news was broken of 617 Sqns famous raid on the the Ruhr dams.
 
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Reply #1 - May 17th, 2006 at 11:23am

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Well on this day in 1943 that the news was broken of 617 Sqns famous raid on the the Ruhr dams.


Was it not "X" Sqn (as in EX and not 10) and then named 617 Sqn after the mission was over?

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Reply #2 - May 17th, 2006 at 11:35am

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Sorry Matt I just didn't want to confuse people excessively Kiss
 
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Reply #3 - May 17th, 2006 at 11:53am

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Don't apologise ozzy, that is only required, when you say to your wife, "Lets go to the Mohnesee and walk the dog".
It is a nice day and she is in full agreement. Normally an hour in the car, but well worth it. Mrs The-ex-Pat falls asleep as she does once we have driven 200 meters up the road.
I head to the Autobahn put the pedal to the floor and get on with it. Mrs The-ex-Pat wakes up and asks what I am doing.
"What are you doing", asks Mrs The-ex-Pat
"Driving to the dam", I reply.
"Which one", she asks as we pass a sign for the Edersee, 1 hour past the Mohne.
So the dog was walked at the Eder that day. Castle is well worth a visit if you are in the area though.

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PS. When ever we visit the Mohne, funny, but she just can't let that one go.

 
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Reply #4 - May 17th, 2006 at 12:26pm

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The last time I visited the Mohne was whilst based at Gütersloh. We kept running up and down singing the Dambusters theme and asking any Germans that were handy if we could buy "I love Barnes Wallace" T-Shirts... and we wondered why they used to hate us sooooo much Grin
 
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Reply #5 - May 17th, 2006 at 12:36pm

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And I thought Americans were crude.... Grin
 
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And I thought Americans were crude.... Grin



Sorry, but when pushed, we Brits win hands down, or should that be, hands up?

Ozzy, you even spelt it correctly. Gütersloh, home now for around 15 years. An Englishmas home is his Schloss.


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Reply #7 - May 17th, 2006 at 1:51pm

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Darkest '89 I got sent out for some months as punishment... I don't know who I upset but off I went. They'd just had the new gym put in! The best base gym in the entire service 8)
I was working with 230 Sqn Wink
 
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Reply #8 - May 17th, 2006 at 2:33pm

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You were over the"road" then. In 1989 I was on 3Sqn.
So if I say Sennalager, then a chill should run down your back.

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Not so much a chill down my back as a quivering of my bowels Grin
 
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Mmmmmm, the smell of a turd tardis on a hot summer day.

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Is Lego Land still there?
 
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If you mean the army CQB no idea, it is 10 years since my last visit and as my reserve time is well over, I am not planning on checking any of it out.

Senna Lager, probably the worst Lager in the world.

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Aye that'd be the bugger! I haven't been to Germany for a few years now and I only drive through, no intention of visiting old haunts... with the possible exception of one pub where I want to settle a couple of scores Grin
 
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Well, Mancer Barracks is still here, and RAF Gütersloh is now Princess Royal Barracks. It gets to be interesting down town on a Friday and Saturday night. Saying that I was having a nice quiet beer last Wednesday evening with my wifes cousin, sat outside "Pats Irish Pub" in Drei Ech Platz (excuse the spelling, I speak, but I do not write), where the English phone box is. A group of lads who had come back from Iraq that day came and sat down all was quiet. Of course the beer was flowing and after about an hour, so were tables, chairs, glasses. The oficer in charge, a captain tried to convince Pat that  they where just blowing of post Iraq steam. Needless to say Pat did not see it that way. So scores can still be settled here in GUT and probably a few new ones developed!!


Matt

PS Herties is no longer, It is Karstadt now AND the BP lights have gone too. It is an Aral fliing station now. The Aral lights just does not have the same ring to it.
 
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