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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: SIM on February 01, 2013, 06:57:23 PM
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(http://www.kelseyshop.co.uk/image/cache/data/back-issues/AI/001_COVER-Mosquito-500x500.jpg)
Found my copy at the local Barnes and Noble.......Well worth the money spent!
This is not a book per say, but more of a special edition periodical.
Can order online at: http://www.kelseyshop.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=2600 (http://www.kelseyshop.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=2600)
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(http://www.kelseyshop.co.uk/image/cache/data/back-issues/AI/001_COVER-Mosquito-500x500.jpg)
Found my copy at the local Barnes and Noble.......Well worth the money spent!
This is not a book per say, but more of a special edition periodical.
Can order online at: http://www.kelseyshop.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=2600 (http://www.kelseyshop.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=2600)
Never has an airplane been more aptly named to personify the winged terror with a mouthful of blood-sucking armament that haunts the local river bottom timberlands in ravenous multitudes. Unfortunately, winter merely grounds them for a short time; that is why summer gets old to me very fast.
Is the cover illustration depicting the Oslo raid on a Gestapo HQ?
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Not to hijack, but anyone read "Mosquito: Menacing the Reich" by Martin Bowman? Newish-book. I'm thinking of picking it up maybe with my next round of book ordering (paging mr. taxman).
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Is the cover illustration depicting the Oslo raid on a Gestapo HQ?
Amiens prison raid, Operation Jericho, a favorite for artists choosing to paint the Mossie in action.
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Not to hijack, but anyone read "Mosquito: Menacing the Reich" by Martin Bowman? Newish-book. I'm thinking of picking it up maybe with my next round of book ordering (paging mr. taxman).
Bowman's stuff can be pretty hit-and-miss, a touch of the old cut and paste. Some stuff rehashed from previous books, some ORB/Combat report stuff, some interviews.
On my list is Norman Malayney's book on the USAAF's 25th BG, which corrects many previous errors (mostly from Bowman, that man again) and a book by a fellow named J.P. Ducellier which takes a new look at the Amiens raid.
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/edmundscycles/8436925301/ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/edmundscycles/8436925301/) A great cartoon from Carl Giles .
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Heheheh, yeah, that''s a good one Never knew how long he'd been cartooning until I saw that one.
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He started drawing at the start of the war when working for a small local paper . He drew some wonderful wartime cartoons .
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check this site out
http://www.cartoons.ac.uk/browse/cartoon_item/anytext=Carl%20Giles?page=101 (http://www.cartoons.ac.uk/browse/cartoon_item/anytext=Carl%20Giles?page=101)
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currently reading this:
http://www.amazon.com/SEPARATE-LITTLE-WAR-Kreigsmarine-Luftwaffe/dp/1906502137/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1359830894&sr=8-1
Very good.
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Mosquito lover - the very definition of needle dick :P
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currently reading this:
http://www.amazon.com/SEPARATE-LITTLE-WAR-Kreigsmarine-Luftwaffe/dp/1906502137/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1359830894&sr=8-1
Very good.
I have that one, is indeed very good. There was some talk of Andy Bird doing a Second Edition, putting in all the stuff the publishers omitted from the first - is there any mention in your book along those lines? I'm tempted to order a copy, but it makes little sense if it's the same one I already have.
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Kiwigrin's video from Wings over Wairarapa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=CffNMxsGeoo
the Mossie is about 5 minutes in
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Kiwigrin's video from Wings over Wairarapa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=CffNMxsGeoo
the Mossie is about 5 minutes in
There is no end to this plane's awesomeness. The people who built KA114 have 70 virgins waiting for them in paradise.
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There is no end to this plane's awesomeness. The people who built KA114 have 70 virgins waiting for them in paradise.
brilliant job
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Didn't Giles end up doing a cartoon following a family and life in everyday blue collar England? The holiday ones were funny as hell.
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I have that one, is indeed very good. There was some talk of Andy Bird doing a Second Edition, putting in all the stuff the publishers omitted from the first - is there any mention in your book along those lines? I'm tempted to order a copy, but it makes little sense if it's the same one I already have.
The one I have does not say much. The only mention of updats is:
"This revised and updated edition first published 2008"
In the usual page of copyrights and ISBN details.
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Didn't Giles end up doing a cartoon following a family and life in everyday blue collar England? The holiday ones were funny as hell.
Yeah . In fact the family first appears in a WWII cartoon . if you look through that web page you may see gran .
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The one I have does not say much. The only mention of updats is:
"This revised and updated edition first published 2008"
In the usual page of copyrights and ISBN details.
Thanks for that, will check against mine.
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Yeah . In fact the family first appears in a WWII cartoon . if you look through that web page you may see gran .
Used to have a stack of Giles annuals. There always seemed to be about 37 things happening in each one, all wicked funny.
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yeah i used to love looking through them as a kid at home . there is one war cartoon that was real event , you see a load of flyboys running towards a naffi shouting "COOKIES" . He was at an airbase when a lancaster crashed on takeoff with Cookies and 1000lber on board . The crew survived and stopped all the rescue trucks ect going near . Every one found it funny how they all ran to the naffie shouting cookies as if they crashed because the biscuity treats were on offer .
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Yeah . In fact the family first appears in a WWII cartoon . if you look through that web page you may see gran .
(http://www.gilescartoons.co.uk/gilesimages/family/grandma.gif)
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Haha ! found her . More fun than where's wally !