…chute descent’ completed over Salisbury plain and I’d like to find a prior instance! Regards David List Brett Holman Thanks David! I have some comments on your comments, in another post. joan shelton nee Mulqueeney I was wondering what family the John Joseph Mulqueeney came from that you wrote about, My father and grandfather were both John Edward Mulqueeney from the Gundagai area and I would like to know the connection. regards Joan Brett Holman…
…orking, so I updated the theme and now it seems ok. By way of apology I’ve installed an amazing plugin called Live Comment Preview which does just what the name says. Anyway, the aviatrix mentioned was Mary Allen, though I’m not sure if she actually flew herself? The Oxford DNB doesn’t mention if she did. Another female fascist sympathiser with an interest in aviation was Lady Houston, owner of the Saturday Review, fan of Mussolini and Hitler, and…
…t, into the secrets of his inventions, being convinced that they would be “instantly adapted for warfare”. He also states that he wonders if it would not be better “if I were to destroy myself and my inventions” to avoid this happening. His heroes do indeed encounter Martians, and the professor invents a pesticide to help them in their fight against the mosquito like creatures that have devastated the planet. Johns likens space travellers to sailo…
…epresented a far greater threat, and the relative nearness of the American installations to Japanese bases in Formosa meant these aircraft could be taken out early in the event of conflict. Which is, of course, precisely what happened. Brett Holman Quite right, Paul, I forgot to mention that! Quester notes the worries that Japanese planners had about their buildings made of wood and paper. Also, in 1932 Billy Mitchell wrote a magazine article argu…
…strikes in the river. I was thinking of offering the article in the first instance to Prologue, NARA’s in-house magazine (they have the original Heinkel snap from which the IWM print was copied), or to a House mag for veteran image analysts. I’ll keep you posted. Brett Holman So if the photo has a documented context and is from a series of similar images taken at the same time, I think it is (finally!) safe to conclude that it is, in fact, genuin…
…eet of especially effective E-Boats. These could wreak havoc, and did, for instance carving-up an Allied amphibious force heading for a practice landing just off the coast of Devonshire near Start Point. Also, ships sheltered in fjords are one thing, 1914-18 vintage destroyers out in the open in the Channel is quite another matter. Don’t forget too, that a little later, admittedly with the help of bad weather, the Luftwaffe provided a very highly-…
…s of both the Communist Party in China and the Nationalists in Taiwan, for instance, reference the æŠ—æ—¥æˆ°çˆ (Kà ng-Rì Zhà nzhÄ“ng) [edit: unfortunately, a WordPress upgrade garbled the Chinese characters here — BH], or War of Resistance against Japan, which lasted from ’37 to ’45. Similarly, the two Koreas refer to the heroic resistance against Japan instead of tying it into the larger global struggle. One consequence is that while Japanese…
…rted). Life is harder if you want to plot arbitary other trajectories (for instance highly elliptical orbits, orbits with periods ~24 hours, parabolic trajectories as of missiles, etc.) and the above discussion doesn’t apply in full. However, the plane of the orbit must still pass through the center of the earth and therefore still divides the (notionally spherical) earth into two equal hemispheres. Brett Holman Firstly, please note that an earlie…
…he one sensible thing to do and it does not matter whether enough military installations were hit. it certainly was not “nice” but it boils down to whose life is worth more: that of a civilian enemy or that of your own soldier and as war is never nice and my people started it, it is only justified that we had to pay the price, children included as far as I know the Wehrmacht were never in doubt! also having been born in 1942 I certainly am gratefu…
…rning 1900 tragic cancer deaths was anything but sarcastic and of course I instantly assumed that the writer was as disgusted as the next person at the thought that ANY rational human being would have thought that it WOULD be “a small price to pay”. The thing that amazes me continuously, is how many folks there are in our midst that just don’t get it when it comes to verbal banter. These are typically the same folks you can’t discuss anything arou…
