Martin Bowyer (GDP)
Rogues Gallery
DEATH NOTICE - MIKE DENNESS (Cricket)
Visit http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/cricket/mike-denness-former-england-captain-1842506 for details
TERENCE MURPHY (RhAF SHORT TERM)
Don Munroe (RhAF) sent in this link:-
Visit. http://www.flyingmarines.com/Biographies/1951-1960/Murphy.htm
(Note the borrowed photograph of ORAFs and Kevin Milligan)
10 COMMON SAYINGS
Doug Smith (RhAF) Writes regarding the listing that ORAFs recently distributed:-
They are famous sure but I think the most famous saying and only understood by Zimbos is:
See you just now or see you later.
These can mean in a few minutes, hours, days weeks or even longer.
Other people just cannot work out when we say one of these to a mate he knows the time frame it
is in.
See you later
Eddy Norris (RhAF) Writes;-
In South Africa a beauty is when you ask someone how far it is to somewhere. They answer \"about 1 hour (always time it takes to get there)
HERO RAF PILOT DROPPED FRENCH LAG ON ARC DE TRIOMPHE UNDER NAZI RULE
From Ron Jarman (RhAF)
Visit. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2239241/Hero-RAF-pilot-Ken-Gatward-dropped-French-flag-Arc-Triomphe-Nazi-occupied-Paris.html
SEEKING CONTACT
Joan McLaren-Smith Writes:-
I was married to Doug smith and would like to try and find his son Michael from his marriage to Margie
Replies direct to Joan at joanmclarensmith@gmail.com
AIR RHODESIA\'S B720 - \"A RIDDLE WRAPPED IN A MYSTERY
Francis Fynn (RhAF and RhArmy) Writes:-
There is one point which we all missed including Chris, when he was in the US training the main reason aircraft were going cheap (probably DC8\'s as well) Was the fact that the mighty 747s were becoming available and even SAA flogged their 707\'s off cheap to buy 747\'s. Also until a few years ago a 720 was being used as a refuelling tanker for the SAAF Cheaters and Mirages, not bad for rubbish!!
Refer. http://rhodesianheritage.blogspot.com/2013/05/air-rhodesias-b720s-riddle-wrapped-in.html
ADVERTISEMENT - STAR WARS
Ian Pringle (Praw) Writes:-
I bet not too many RhAF people attended that premiere of Star Wars; it was right in the middle of Operation Dingo.
In fact, it was on the eve of Zulu 2 - the attack on Tembue - when most No7 Squadron crews were spending the night at Mount Darwin\'s FAF 4, while Rex Taylor was busy hacking out helicopter clearings on the \'Train\' in Mozambique, while ground crews were busy rolling drums at Chiswiti, where 32 Alouettes would land at first light en-route to the Train.
Refer. http://rhodesianadvertisements.blogspot.com/2013/05/rhodesian-armoured-car-regiment.html
BIRTHDAYS FOR THE MONTH OF MAY
List supplied by Nev Mare.
03 May Mike McCormack.
04 May Pete Billett.
05 May May Cameron widow of Joe Cameron & my sister.
12 May Rich Carroll.
14 May Barry Ashley (Barrel) Roberts.
15 May Pete Woolcock.
15 May Rory Conrad Hilton.
15 May Don Segal.
15 May Neville Mare.
17 May Sketch Roberts.
Happy Birthday to you all.
V-E DAY - May 8
ORAFS writes:-
V-E Day stands for Victory in Europe Day, commemorating the unconditional surrender of Germany to Allied forces on May 8, 1945. Adolf Hitler declared that Germany had proved unworthy of him and committed suicide in his Berlin bunker on April 30, 1945. Hitler\'s successor, Admiral Karl Dnitz, started negotiations with the Western powers, hoping to save as many troops and refugees as possible from Soviet reprisals. But the U.S.S.R. refused to recognize the surrender ceremony at U.S. General Dwight Eisenhower\'s headquarters on May 7 (the hostilities set to end at one minute past midnight May 9, 1945 - or 9:01pm Eastern on May 8 in the U.S.). A separate German surrender to the USSR was signed and a separate Soviet V-E Day held, in Berlin on May 8 to end the war once and for all.
SMILE A WHILE
An Arizona Highway Patrol officer stops a Harley for traveling faster than the posted speed limit, so he asks the biker his name.
\'Fred,\' he replies.
\'Fred w...hat?\' the officer asks.
\'Just Fred,\' the man responds.
The officer is in a good mood, thinks he might just give the biker a break, and write him out a warning instead of a ticket. The officer then presses him for the last name.
The man tells him that he used to have a last name but lost it.
The officer thinks that he has a nut case on his hands but plays along with it. \'Tell me, Fred, how did you lose your last name?\'
The biker replies, \"It\'s a long story, so stay with me.\' I was born Fred Johnson. I studied hard and got good grades. When I got older, I realized that I wanted to be a doctor. I went through college, medical school, internship, residency, and finally got my degree, so I was Fred Johnson, MD.
\"After a while I got bored being a doctor, so I decided to go back to school. Dentistry was my dream! Got all the way through School, got my degree, so then I was Fred Johnson, MD, DDS. Got bored doing dentistry, so I started fooling around with my assistant and she gave me VD, so now I was Fred Johnson, MD, DDS, with VD.
\"Well, the ADA found out about the VD, so they took away my DDS. Then I was Fred Johnson, MD, with VD. Then the AMA found out about the ADA taking away my DDS because of the VD, so they took away my MD leaving me as Fred Johnson with VD.
Then the VD took away my Johnson, so now I am Just Fred.\"
The officer walked away in tears, laughing.
\"How does Moses make his tea? Hebrews it..\'\'
End of Newsletter
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