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Wraggles To The Rescue!

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Ted Parry said:
Don't remind me of those 'recce' missions .... Jesus H Christ, you needed balls bigger than that bull ... You remember the big black bugger that used to fuck that 'WAAF Good Time that was had by all' behind the air raid shelter .... You remember her .... Dorothy ... the blonde one with tits like barrage balloons and a fanny like the bomb bay on a Lancaster ....
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Oh well, at least we managed to stay in a tight little formation...
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RacingRodent said:
Well that is always going to be an awkward one. I mean while if you are in the infantry and toting a rifle it should be fairly obvious but does the guy trekking with a backpack full of food under fire in order to bring it to those riflemen count as fighting? An awful lot of 'non-combat' troops can find themselves awfully close to the fighting even if they never pick up a rifle.

Royal Army Service Corps drivers for example were considered combatant personnel as their job typically took them into harms way. Even so Royal Army Ordnance Corps personnel might not have been considered combatant but handling explosive stores was their full time and hardly safe job.

Also in other services all the personnel on RAF Fighter and Bomber Command bases in Southern England could expect to experience direct attack during the Battle of Britain. The Merchant Navy and similar merchant marines of several allied and neutral nations all also risked and often experienced direct attack despite officially being counted as civilians.

It is probably never going to be possible to give a clear, definitive answer to that one.
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So true. I think the highest British loss of life in WW2 was experienced by the merchant navy, and they were considered non-combatants!
Civilian ATA Ferry Pilot Jackie Moggridge was nearly hit by a V1 whilst delivering a Hawker Tempest in 1944 (the book cover shows her as a member of the RAF after the war.)

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bobinder said:
So true. I think the highest British loss of life in WW2 was experienced by the merchant navy, and they were considered non-combatants!
Civilian ATA Ferry Pilot Jackie Moggridge was nearly hit by a V1 whilst delivering a Hawker Tempest in 1944 (the book cover shows her as a member of the RAF after the war.)

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It seems that 15 ATA were lost while going about their duties; they certainly weren't entirely without risk.
 
Wragg134 said:
It seems that 15 ATA were lost while going about their duties; they certainly weren't entirely without risk.
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Indeed, that looks like the number of female members who died. The following is from:-
http://www.atamuseum.org/about-the-ata/

IN MEMORIAM

In total 173 ATA aircrew died in ATA service, including Amy Johnson. They are commemorated on a special memorial in St Paul’s Cathedral, London. Poor weather, mechanical failure or accidents in training were the principle causes. The largest group of ATA graves is at All Saints’ cemetery in Maidenhead, where 17 war graves represent men and women 6 different nationalities.
http://www.raf-lichfield.co.uk/ATA Casualties.htm

THE FORGOTTEN PILOTS

There are memorials to ATA at various airfields including White Waltham, Ringway, Ratcliffe, Whitchurch and Hamble. However official British government recognition did not come until September 2008 when all surviving veterans were awarded a special Veterans Badge at a ceremony at 10, Downing Street, London.
 
Here's what Madiosi would call "the blurb", in case he's thinking of setting up a e-book. ;)

Spitfire pilots Wraggles, Ginger, Algy and Bertie have had a fairly boring flight escorting bombers. Ginger Windar decides to add a little spice to life by shooting up a train, but when they spot a nude girl on a cross life gets a lot more spicy than they'd bargained for....
 
Wragg134 said:
Here's what Madiosi would call "the blurb", in case he's thinking of setting up a e-book. ;)

Spitfire pilots Wraggles, Ginger, Algy and Bertie have had a fairly boring flight escorting bombers. Ginger Windar decides to add a little spice to life by shooting up a train, but when they spot a nude girl on a cross life gets a lot more spicy than they'd bargained for....
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Wragg134 said:
“Get that poor woman off that cross! I’ve admired her thoroughly, time to let her go!”

A group of infantrymen jumped to it, and at long, long last poor Messaline was rescued from her cross. Tree radioed for medics to take care of her.
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:doh:I missed that and the following too ...
Hum, it was time that somebody takes care of me ... I was a little benumbed !!!

Wragg134 said:
“This is Captain Tree of the 101st Airborne!” A Missouri accent rolled over the clearing. “Come out with your hands held high!”
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I'v already them high since some days ago ...Have you not remarked ?:D

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windar said:
But that blurb, Wragg. I shot up that train just to "add spice to life"? How do we know the train wasn't carrying important Nazis or critical war materiel or some vintage Bordeaux for Goring? A train in enemy held-territory is perfectly fair game in wartime, is it not?
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Indeed it is, Ginger ;)

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Nazis, Bordeaux, spice - all great fun to shoot up! :)
 
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