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Posted: February 25, 2005 09:23 am
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Posted: February 25, 2005 09:56 am
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MacDonald was the British Air Attache in Bucharest during the 1980's and became interested in why there were so many RAF graves in the graveyard at Tincabesti


The monument dedicated to all RAF ( and Commonwealth) lost airman in WWII over Romania from Tancabesti cemetery. Courtesy Dan Melinte.


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Posted: February 25, 2005 11:13 am
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i am sorry for the bad quality photo of my last post, it loks fine on my screen, i don't know what is the problem, il try again.

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Posted: February 25, 2005 11:15 am
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The story of the Welington crashed in the lake, from the same book.

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Posted: February 25, 2005 11:22 am
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From the same book, information about Landcasters on the romanian teritory.

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Posted: February 25, 2005 11:23 am
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From the same book...

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Posted: February 25, 2005 11:27 am
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i am sorry for the bad quality photo of my last post



And i'm sorry for non french speeking people. tongue.gif Maybe Barbosu could help with translation.

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Posted: February 25, 2005 01:30 pm
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Well, I'll translate them but fragment by fragment.
tongue.gif I made a request to the government to issue a law making the day of 30 hours and sleep time only three hours blink.gif

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Posted: February 25, 2005 02:48 pm
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The book " GERMAN/RUMANIAN NIGHT FIGHTERS" where did you buy it from ? what is the printing year ? can you repost the first photo posted as it doesnt work .....also can you scan the cover of the book.

It also says under one of the photos where two soldiers looks into the sky ..that the AMERICAN bombers bombed Zilistea while flying from Russia to Rumania...I knew that some joint US / Sviet B-25's Bombers under the Russian Naval Air Command were based in Crimea and used on the Crimea front in 1944 , I didnt know however that other US bombers were based elsewhere in Russia.....I would like to know the type and location of the bombers just in case you know .

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It also says under one of the photos where two soldiers looks into the sky ..that the AMERICAN bombers bombed Zilistea while flying from Russia to Rumania...I knew that some joint US / Sviet B-25's Bombers under the Russian Naval Air Command were based in Crimea and used on the Crimea front in 1944 , I didnt know however that other US bombers were based elsewhere in Russia.....I would like to know the type and location of the bombers just in case you know .

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It was one of the shutlle raid ( july ?) used by 15th Air Force freqvently in summer '44. One of the american base in Rusia was Poltava.

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Posted: February 28, 2005 10:17 am
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The book " GERMAN/RUMANIAN NIGHT FIGHTERS" where did you buy it from ? what is the printing year ? can you repost the first photo posted as it doesnt work .....also can you scan the cover of the book.


Below the front cover of the book.

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Posted: February 28, 2005 10:38 am
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Great thread, by the way i wanna make plans for a trip to Corbii Mari, resting place of a Landacster. I know somme people there and they said to me that they prepared information for when i get there. Is not verry far from Bucharest.

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Hey Cip, the Lancaster was in fact a Halifax shot down at Corbii Mari.
( info from book La chasse de nuit...)



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Posted: February 28, 2005 10:44 am
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German radars position map.
Cornelius was the code name of the one placed near Comana village.( book Chassse de la nuit..)



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Posted: February 28, 2005 11:51 am
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This chart if translated from French to English says it shows all location of the German visual night signalling aids and status for night fighter activity and not German Radar locations....from German translated it also indicates the 12 BF-110 soled to ARR for the amount mentioned ....the circles are NAV compass roses and the legend indicates the night signalling status of each facility........it doesnt indicate about any Radar station location.

Also I am not aware nor there are any RAF reports that Halifaxes and Lancs were lost over Rumania....it could well be an RAF B-24...however if you have clear evidences from the crash site pointing out of a Halifax , let me know

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This chart if translated from French to English says it shows all location of the German visual night signalling aids and status for night fighter activity and not German Radar locations....from German translated it also indicates the 12 BF-110 soled to ARR for the amount mentioned ....the circles are NAV compass roses and the legend indicates the night signalling status of each facility........it doesnt indicate about any Radar station location.



Yes Alex you are right they are not radars but radio control centers who direct the german night fighters to the night intruders position ( or something like that). But also Wurzburg radars could be part from that complex sistems ( visual, audio, signalling, radio). I will check for more in that book.
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