Rick Van Malsen BCR (RhArmy)
Rogues Gallery
RHODESIAN - GUATEMALAN CONNECTION
My name is Tulio Soto; I live in Texas, and I am a co-founder of a website on Latin American Aviation History (www.laahs.com)
Going through unclassified CIA documents, a friend has found a reference to Rhodesia, in connection to the CIA's invasion of Guatemala, in 1954.
I am seeking your help in trying to identify the aircraft involved, and if possible, the persons involved. Almost 60 years later, I don't believe that it poses any risk to their well being to identify them.
In any case, the supposed airplane smuggling did not take place. The information is being sought for a book being written on the 1954 invasion of Guatemala.
This is the paragraph that makes reference to Rhodesia:
"2. The F-51's would be obtained by [Name Deleted] from Lend Lease supplies in France. Lend Lease AT-6's are already owned by [Name Deleted] in Rhodesia. Other arms and ammunition would be procured by [Name Deleted] from Israel through London Contacts, or direct from the [Name Deleted] arms pile in Israel. It was planned that the F-51's would be sold legitimately by [Name Deleted] to Dominicans who would sell and equal number of their planes to him. He would then send them to Costa Rica for overhauling and ferrying to Guatemala. The AT-6's would be sent directly from Rhodesia to Costa Rica. The arms would be transferred to a Guatemalan ship from a [Name Deleted] vessel on the high seas."
Any help you can render, will be credited and of course, appreciated.
Tulio Soto
Brookshire, TX
If you can assist please contact Tulio direct on ningues1010@gmail.com
DOUBLE DECKER BUSES
Mike McGeorge Writes:-
I used to drive a truck from a quarry my brother an I had past Epworth , delivering crushed stone to various building sites in Salisbury, travelling down the old Widdecombe Rd, in Cranborne, and often saw these buses , am sure they went over that low level bridge, that is behind the present Macro in Hillside, one had to give way to oncoming traffic as the bridge was only a single lane affair. This was in the early 50s. Very little traffic problems, and vehicles continuously being checked by VID (vehicle Inspection Services), that is the trucks and buses, any sniff of black diesel smoke, one was stopped, straight to the VID, tow the vehicle away , and get it fixed, before returning to the road, they would have a field day today!!
Refer http://rhodesianheritage.blogspot.com/2014/02/london-buss-in-salisbury.html to read the complete article
SAPPERS
In the meantime if you could let all your members know that I also have a blog that is an account of my ever-fading memories as a Rhodesian and South African Combat Engineer. I would appreciate some visits and encouragement as we all do. There will be mention of RhAF in numerous postings and perhaps you members will be able to help me with more detail. Please have a look at:fatfox9.wordpress.com
Mark Craig
BARRY ROBERTS AND STEVE PROPHET
Can you fellows please confirm receipt f this letter - as you well know, a fair amount of mail addressed to you has taken a walk a bout in cyber. Please confirm by sending an email to orafs11@gmail.com
POSTING OF COMMENTS ON OUR STORY AND RHODESIAN BLOG
I understand some are having difficulty in posting comments to the sites, please note that I do offer you the choice in mailing those comments to me for loading. All that I ask is for you to place a sentence asking for it to be loaded - otherwise we end up with someone saying I never asked for it to be loaded.
Interesting to note that many hundreds of folk manage to manage to post comments and also search for posting?
REMINDERS
Dale Collett's Motorcycle Ride to Raise Money
AFA (Cape) Monthly Braai
First Friday evening of each month.
Contact Johnny Ness and or Tony Cowell for details
AFA (Gauteng) Monthly Prayer Meeting
First Saturday afternoon of the month at Dickie Fritz Shellhole.
Contact Cheryl Grover for details
AFA (Natal) Social
First Friday evening of each month.
Contact Neville Mare (RhAF) for details
SMILE A WHILE
1st woman: Hi, Wanda!
2nd woman: Hi, Sylvia! How'd you die?
1st woman: I froze to death.
2nd woman: How horrible!
1st woman: It wasn't so bad. After I quit shaking from the cold, I began to get warm and sleepy, and finally died a peaceful death. What about you?
2nd woman: I died of a massive heart attack. I suspected that my husband was cheating, so I came home early to catch him in the act. But instead, I found him all by himself in the den watching TV.
1st woman: So, what happened?
2nd woman: I was so sure there was another woman there somewhere that I started running all over the house looking. I ran up into the attic and searched, and down into the basement. Then I went through every closet and checked under all the beds. I kept this up until I had looked everywhere, and finally I became so exhausted that I just keeled over with a heart attack and died.
1st woman: Too bad you didn't look in the freezer---we'd both still be alive.
"You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.."
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Comments are always welcome - send them to Eddy Norris at orafs11@gmail.com
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Ref. ORAFs, Rhodesian Air Force
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