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    Adrian Warburton

    Last night, BBC2 .....

    I have never heard of him. Young bloke, RAF pilot WW2, learned in Hurri's and then fell inlove with Spit (no news there then)

    He became a Recon man...flying in for photos.

    But this bloke was a nutter but brave.
    He got involved with the US Airforce. He asked for a stripped out US twin engined bomber (cant remember which one) so it was as fast in level flight as a 109, and then this loonatic came in really really low and massively fast across harbours, through AA and took photos of the naval forces.....he even took sea level fotage of the route to a coastal attack so that the Navy knew where too land ....and he was LOW...

    Really phenomenally big balls......he came back from one sorty with the WIRE AERIAL FROM A SHIP stuck in the underside of his plane...

    THATS LOW

    and he went back, time and again....mad as a march hare.

    Then he disappeared and the archives showed sod all...an RAF man in a US plane.....nobody knew.

    Mid 90's a German, studying WW2 losses, puts all the info together and works out the field he landed nose first in...they dug..and they found him straight away. That plane was mangled.

    Incredible. The pilots who were interviewed thought the world of him. He was one brave bloke

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    Quote Originally Posted by Advice Trinity by Knoxville
    "The second you aren't paying attention to the tool you're using, it will take your fingers from you. It does not know sympathy." |
    "If you don't gaffer it, it will gaffer you" | "Belt and braces"

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    Sorry I missed that, Ive just been trying to find a chapter in one of my books on a RAF chap that did a recon from Malta with 2 Spits as escort, they came into the harbour below the level of the masts and this guys just kept taking photos even when the 109s came in, when told we gotta get the fook outta here theres a swarm of 109s his repsonse was..Deal with them then old boy thats why I bought you!!!

    Laddie Lucas flew as his esort iirc

    Big Carhoonies those recon blokes, no guns no defense except the fastest planes on the bloke

    OMG just checked the link!!! Same bloke
    Last edited by Dakaras; 15-11-2003 at 03:43 PM.

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    tis...same bloke


    He was a fruit loop....top bloke

    Quote Originally Posted by Advice Trinity by Knoxville
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    i was in a talk with a lancaster wireless op the other week, very interesting stuff. he was born in the UK but flew with an ozzy crew, he flew 32 missions all in germany, 25 to berlin!, god knows how he survived. Thing that surprised me the most, was that he didnt socialise with his crew AT ALL! they were great friends, slept in same dorms, but never did anythin else together, as not to get too attatched to them. was a bloody nice chap though, he was called Norman Corbett BTW if u were interested
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    My fave in combat quote so far..

    'Help me out, I've got a 109 on my tail...'

    'Sorry old chap, can't help, I've got three on my tail.... Don't worry though, I've got em surrounded!'
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    "OH OOOOHH oOOHHHHHHHOOHHHHHHH FILL ME WITH YOUR.... eeww not the stuff from the lab"

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    LOL Yeah thats a classic, right along with

    Doug Bader....Where are you red 1

    Red 1 Sector Blah blah blah Angels 15

    Doug Bader Same as me red 1 come Im Angels 5 come down to me

    Turns out that Red1 and Bader had had a set to the night before

    The response

    Oh I dont think so I rather think you can come up here

    Bloke wasnt giving up his height

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    Re: Adrian Warburton

    Originally posted by Zak33

    He got involved with the US Airforce. He asked for a stripped out US twin engined bomber (cant remember which one) so it was as fast in level flight as a 109,
    http://www.us-aircraft.com/marylandbomber.htm

    It was the Maryland Bomber that he used and stripped everything not essential out.

    Really phenomenally big balls......he came back from one sorty with the WIRE AERIAL FROM A SHIP stuck in the underside of his plane...
    Warburton was stationed on Malta and became a symbol of hope for the island, the sorty above was the reconnesaince that allowed for the following attack...

    "The night of November 11, 1940, the "Night of Taranto", was the saddest in Italian Seamen's history and one of the most brilliant for the British. That night all of the six Italian battleships were in the Taranto harbour; the Royal Navy planned a daring action: two strikes of torpedo-carrying Swordfish aircraft took off from carrier Illustrious, that approached undetected to within 170 miles of Taranto. Battleships Conte di Cavour, Caio Duilio and Littorio were hit by torpedoes. And only two of the twenty-one British aircraft were shot down. Littorio and Duilio were moored to prevent their sinking. Cavour sank with only her superstructures above water. Littorio and Duilio were repaired in some months while Cavour was ready again only at the time of the armistice."

    This was vital to secure the supply lines in the mediterain.

    Very interesting program.
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