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Ah, you do me honor great sir. :D Now if ya didn't live so danged far we could all go out for a drink. :drinkin::drinkin:

 

Really thanks. It means a lot coming from you. :wub:

Marion J Chard
Proud Daughter of Walter (Monday) Poniedzialek
540th Engineer Combat Regiment, 2833rd Bn, H&S Co, 4th Platoon
There's "No Bridge Too Far"
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#12

James Pickering checking in-- nice to be here. Originally from Burnley, England now living in Tucson, Arizona. Link to my WW2 British Homefront website was kindly listed previously by Marion -- also in my signature block below.

 

James

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#13

A very warm welcome James. Great to have you amongst our new members. I hope you will find this site as beneficial as we do yours.

 

How long have you lived here in the states? We'd love to hear a little background about you and the how the site got started.

 

:pdt34:

Marion J Chard
Proud Daughter of Walter (Monday) Poniedzialek
540th Engineer Combat Regiment, 2833rd Bn, H&S Co, 4th Platoon
There's "No Bridge Too Far"
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#14

A very warm welcome James ..... How long have you lived here in the states?  We'd love to hear a little background about you and the how the site got started.

 

:pdt34:

Thank you for the welcome, Marion. I emigrated to the US in 1950. I am a retired aerospace systems engineer. My WW2 Memoirs website resulted from the urging of my family and friends -- before I got too old to record my memories and remembrances.

 

James

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#15

Hello James and welcome to the forum.

I'm just down the road from where you used to live, i live in a village called Crawshawbooth (just outside Rawtenstall).

 

I've bookmarked your website and will visit it soon, i'll let you know what i think. :)

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#16

Hello James and welcome to the forum.

I'm just down the road from where you used to live, i live in a village called Crawshawbooth (just outside Rawtenstall).....

Thanks for the welcome, Bader40 -- nice to see another Lanky on the Forum. Yes, I have been to Crawshawbooth -- I used to take the Ribble bus from Burnley -- stopping in Rawtenstall -- to Manchester when I worked at Metropolitan Vickers (Trafford Park) in the late 1940s.

 

James

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#17

I'll introduce myself here as well, Stevin Oudshoorn from Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Marion and I got in contact through Mr. Art Morneweck, whose brother is buried in The Netherlands after being KIA on April 12, 1945. I have him on my website and Marion has a great tribute on this webiste for him as well.

 

I am amazed by how this site is growing both in perspective and size! Thanks to Marion I have also been in contact with several veterans and have now Mr. Palmer's book, which I recommend to everyone. I am a slow reader but this book I finished in no time!

 

Also big thanks for Marion for keeping an eye out for the technical well being of my site.

 

As to myself; After years of working as an editor I went back to university to study history. ( :drinkin: ) I try and research the lives and deaths of all the Allied soldiers that were killed in The Netherlands or are buried here. That is what my website is about. I hope it is a fitting tribute to these men. Furthermore I read and try to study everything to do with the land and air war in ETO.

 

I'll be back!

 

Greetings,

 

Stevin

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