Monthly Archives: October 2008
Back in the air, aged 89
The campaign for belated recognition of the wartime efforts of those who served in Bomber Command is gathering pace. At a recent parliamentary question time, Tom Harris MP elicited a reply from the government that a new memorial was under … Continue reading
Filed under BBMF, Bomber Command medal, Modern video clips
Sherburn memorial pays tribute at last
Sherburn, a sometime colliery village in Co Durham, was the home of Flt Sgt Vivian Nicholson DFM, navigator of David Maltby’s aircraft AJ-J on the Dams Raid. Unlike most small communities in the UK it has never had a war … Continue reading
Filed under Memorials
More Dambusters online
My 12 year old daughter, to whom these kind of things matter, tells me that girls nowadays have several categories of ‘best friend’, including such acronyms as BFF, Best Friend Forever, and the less permanent-sounding BFFN, Best Friend For Now. … Continue reading
Filed under Dams Raid crews, Operation Chastise
Partly political
Some politicians are as dull as ditchwater, but many have a genuinely wicked sense of humour and love an audience, however small. (I remember an evening in 1990 in a Bradford curry house with a lovely man called Derek Fatchett, … Continue reading
Filed under Britishness, Dambusters remake, Stephen Fry
Gibbo’s four legged friend
Last weekend’s Sunday Telegraph had a bit of a scoop which probably confirmed the worst suspicions of some Dam Buster film enthusiasts. Sir David Frost, who is producing the new film with Peter Jackson, told the newspaper’s diary writer, Mandrake, … Continue reading
Filed under Dam Busters 1955 film, Dambusters remake, Peter Jackson
