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Westland Lysander Mk.IIIa V9289, 357 Sqn, Burma 1945

Famed for its very short take-off and landing (STOL) capabilities, the Westland Lysander proved itself to be a capable and dependable machine across all allied fronts during the Second World War.
One of its lesser known theatres of operation however, was in the so called ‘forgotten war’ –the conflict in Burma.  During the opening stages of the war in Burma, the Lysander had been used for bombing duties.  However, by 1945 the aircraft was being used to drop covert forces behind enemy lines.  The Lysander was ideally suited to this very risky job, blessed with such good STOL capabilities.
While 357 Squadron only operated the Lysander for a brief period of time, from March to November 1945 the squadron flew countless operations and dropped many agents, sometimes deep behind enemy lines.  It was in this theatre that the Lysander last saw operational service with the RAF, thus ending its distinguished frontline career.corgi

• Scale:  1:72
• Wingspan:  203mm
• Era:  World War II

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This is positively the most exciting book on any operation in Southeast Asia I have read. It was recommnended to me by a friend who explained the book was declared a work of fiction because the publisher refused to publish it as non-fiction because there is no proof the operation exsisted. After reading the book, I have no doubt it has to be true. Gayle Rivers' first peson point of view is detailed and precise. His writing style make accounts of training, living in the jungle, and guerilla tactics used in the field come to life while at the same time give the words a flow that is easy to read. I highly recommend to anyone interested in works concerning the war in Southeast Asia but want something different than the typical line infantry, Ranger, SEAL, or Green Beret accounts to read this book then reread it again. For myself, I ask anyone with more information concerning The Five Fingers (authenticity of the story, other points of view, etc) to e-mail me.This is positively the most exciting book on any operation in Southeast Asia I have read. It was recommnended to me by a friend who explained the book was declared a work of fiction because the publisher refused to publish it as non-fiction because there is no proof the operation exsisted. After reading the book, I have no doubt it has to be true. Gayle Rivers' first peson point of view is detailed and precise. His writing style make accounts of training, living in the jungle, and guerilla tactics used in the field come to life while at the same time give the words a flow that is easy to read. I highly recommend to anyone interested in works concerning the war in Southeast Asia but want something different than the typical line infantry, Ranger, SEAL, or Green Beret accounts to read this book then reread it again. For myself, I ask anyone with more information concerning The Five Fingers (authenticity of the story, other points of view, etc) to e-mail me.A lot of folks in Vietnam bought locally made knives that were the inspiration for the original SOG Bowie model. The were mostly not very faithful copies of the Randalls. A number of American troops carried Randalls. That was the most desirable knife for most people. For a few years in during the war, pretty much all of Bill Moran's knives were going to soldiers. I have a beat up old Airman fighter from that era. A very popular choice was the basic Buck stainless steel bowie/hunter. The Gerber Mk2 also came out in around 1968. I recall that most guys who had the Buck knives had to have them sent from home or trde for them because the PX didnt have any.what was a common fighting knife carried by the british in vietnam? also what was a common fighting knife for the australians? i had some family in that war and they had kabar style knives not sure what brand. Britain sent a very small contingent of Special Forces "Advisers" to Vietnam.I can assure you that the Brits were there, as mentioned, as "advisers", and they did carry their own choice of kit, rifles and edgeware included...
I had a long conversation with one, a sergeant, who has since passed away...
He was there in 1973/4...and he intended to write a book, but Sir Peter's book and the drama caused, prevented him from ever doing that.
He carried a US requested and supplied M16, Browning P35 9mm, and a Randall Model 14 with black micarta scales...

I hope someone does come out and write something for us, as it is a forgotten and rather unknown past of history...
I saw him only once again, and shortly after that, he drowned...  the ausse knife industry was pretty much buggered up by the 1960s.. 
lots of cheap junky english, german and japanese knive simported at very low prices.....
and lost of higher priced german and amriecan hunting knvies, so there was no room for the local makers...... 

some of the australian soliders has issued the saliors rope knvies...... 
also ww2 machetes were issued, 2 types, one longer and thinner and one shorter and fatter, both with bakerlite handles, and canvas sheaths.... with brass throats. 
aslo the lithgow made goloks were also issued, i think the vietnam war ones have bras rivets, ( i think this si one of the best quality cutting tools issued in the modern era to the militery. the smatchets and the very old brass guarded bolos the amriecans got in ww1 were proably better quality, but they mostyl dated from the turn of the centuary.... and the smatchet was far form general issue, and not so well made either)

there goloks had a tapered blade, with a black coating , a full tang, a compressed wood handle and a razor sharpe edge..... not like the thing you britts got,, the sheath was oiled canvas with a sharpening stone. 

now there was no isue as such of knives to the australians, i think some wilkinson sword MOD knives were issued to the airforce..... 
i think soliders took what knvies they could buy with them or got kabars form the yanks when they were there,

now from what i understand the brittish only numbered some 200 or 300 guys , mostly jungle warfare advisors who had some experience in malasia...... 
so i guess they woudl have had what they wanted...... 


now,, the british were in vietnam some 20 years before.... 
and did do quite some figthing. 
........
originaly coming with indian troops to disarm the japanese and vietnamese nationalists. 
and to set up for the french to re establish control over their colony..... 
but later using the japs to helf them fight various independence groups in vietnam trying to throw out the french,........ ( but i understand form the start the french made dicks of them selves and didnt learn a thing

the conflich and intervention of the british was caused partyl because of fear of communist insergents,,, .. although they were rather keak at the time as the japanese have them in check.. but actualy more becuase of the amrican attempts to destabilise the colony for thier own ends, (like giving weaponry and advisors to anti french groups , including the communists.). the amriecan presedent of the tiem even protested the british invasion of the south .. saying it effected thier interests yep, when I was in Singapore with my Father in the late 60's the SAS did a lot of training from R.A.A.F Butterworth, before going out to Vietnam Worked with a bloke in the 70s....he was a colonel in the Aus Army.
Was on exchange to the Brit army. That army sent him to VN as "an observer".
I guess it was because he had fought in Malaya during "the Emergency".
He showed me the private purchase Case Bowie he carried in both theatres. There were apparently 6 bars to the GSM awarded with the legend "South Vietnam". That would suggest at least 6 British soldiers did serve there.

Speculation has been that they were attached to the Aussie or Kiwi SAS in a training role, and ended up "in country".

Not sure how you would find out though.all fiures eureka

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There is probably no other aircraft in civil or military aviation that is more well known than the Junkers Ju 52. During the 1930's she epitomised flight safety and was a synonym for reliability. It was initially designed - at the request of the cargo airlines - as a single-engine aircraft. Airlines such as Lufthansa however preferred a three-engine variant for safety for its passengers. In addition to robustness, it should require only short take-off andlanding runs and still deliver low maintenance and low cost operation. The firstaircraft with three-engines took-off on its maiden flight on 07 March 1932. In this series, the BMW 132A radial engine with an output of 660hp was used. With these engines the Ju 52 achieved maximum speeds of between 250 and 290 km / h (155 mph and 180 mph). The Second World War interrupted the development of civil air traffic. When the War finally end in 1945, a huge demand for passenger carrying capacity was identified and the search began for suitable aircraft for civil aviation. British European Airways, which on 1 August 1946 began air services from Croydonand Northolt to the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man and Scotland began to feel the effects of the lack of suitable aircraft. One way out of this predicament was the use of Ju 52's captured by the Royal Air Force in Europe. In this way BEA acquired ten Ju 52/3m in different versions. The British European Airways Junkers Ju 52/3m were in constant use until the end of 1948, before they were scrapped at Ringway for economic reasons.

Fuselage with detailed corrugated sheet metal structure
- Detailed interior withwall cladding, luggage racks, coat hooks and ceiling lights
- Detailed passengerseats
- Two seating options may be built
- alternatively with smoking compartment
- Detailed toilet
- Oil tank above the pilots seats
- Encased undercarriage
- New exhaust system for the centre engine
- Detailed cockpit withinstrument panel and control stick
- Access door optionally open of closed
- Detailed radial engines
- Separate ailerons
- Flattened tyres

- Detailed decals for two Ju 52's with "British European Airways" markings:
- Junkers Ju 52/3m of British European Airways at Croydon; 1948
- Junkers Ju 52/3m of British European Airways at Gatwick; 1947

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On August 27th 1943, a German Luftwaffe long-range photo reconnaissance bomber, a Junkers Ju-390 took off from its base in Norway and flew out across the Atlantic Ocean. Among its four man crew was a brave and daring woman Anna Kreisling, the ‘White Wolf of the Luftwaffe’. A nickname she had acquired because of her frost blonde hair and icy blue eyes. Anna was one of the top pilots in Germany and even though she was only the co-pilot on this mission, her flying ability was crucial to its success.
The Ju-390 was twice the size of the B-29 Superfortress. It was powered by six 1,500 hp BMW radial engines and it had a range of 18,000 miles without refuelling.
This was to be the longest photo-recon mission flown by an enemy airplane in World War II. Nine hours later, the Junkers was over Canada and swinging south at an altitude of 22,000 feet. In the next few hours, it would photograph the heavy industrial plants in Michigan that were vital to the United States.
By noon on August 28th the gigantic six engined bomber was over New York City, where it finally was spotted by the US Army Air Corp. but by then it was too late. The Junkers disappeared into the vastness of the Atlantic Ocean, fourteen hours later, Anna would bring the huge bomber in to land at a Luftwaffe base outside of Paris.
Thoughts of this mission came to mind as I sat across the table from Anna Kreisling at a recent Octoberfest in Los Angeles. She is still quite beautiful with her icy blonde hair tied-back in a pony-tail and her radiant blue eyes, which have seen events in human history only a few of us could ever imagine.
She had flown Ju-52 Trimotors into the streets of Stalingrad when it had been surrounded by the Red Army. Many times her plane had been riddled with bullets so badly that she landed with only one engine running while the other two were on fire.
In 1945 she was assigned to fly the jet fighters that Germany was producing.
One of these jet fighters was the Horten V9 flying wing. It was powered by two Jumo turbo-jet engines, which enabled it to fly at 600 mph. It was armed with two 30mm cannon and air to air missiles.
Anna never scored any victories in the Horten. While taxing in the snow an American Sherman tank crew captured her after she had turned off the engine and pulling off her flight helmet they thought she was a movie star!! For the next six months she poured coffee for the US Army and did not spend one night in a POW camp. Everyone thought she was part of Bob Hope’s USO show!!
P.S. An article in Air Progress magazine in the Nov/Dec issue 1965 also talked about the Junkers Ju-390 over-flying Michigan and New York. This was held top secret throughout World War II and the Cold War.
If you look in books they will say that only two Ju-390s were built, when in fact there were around 11 built. Also they were used in Odessa, Russia to fly to Japanese held fields in China. Very secret jet engines and technology was traded for raw materials. At Area 51 in Nevada the United States Air Force it is rumored has a Junkers Ju-390 it captured during Operation Paperclip toward the end of World War II.