Waritme icons. Who would you have most liked to share a glass of nectar with?

Rob Fast · #1 20-09-09, 02:03

I thought I would post this thread thinking to myself how great it would have been to sit down with all the personalities involved in WWll and share a glass of the nectar with them.
I will start this thread with a grand Lady whose angelic voice still plays in my shop on a regular basis. Cheers Rob

Rob Fast · #2 20-09-09, 02:07

Myself , being a keeper of the greens, I would have loved to have a couple of weak whiskeys discussing the landscaping of Chartwell. Cheers Rob

RHClarke · #3 20-09-09, 02:40

Since the blue jobs were out flying their vintage aircraft over Ottawa today, I would like to sit for a chat, tea and scones with General Sir Frederick Alfred Pile (AKA Tim 1884 – 1976).

It would be interesting to find out how he was able to put together his command when the army was less than impressed with air defence (seems it is a tradition) and the air force was convinced it alone "ruled the skies" (seems a tradition).

Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP) · #4 20-09-09, 02:59

...and so is Sir Winston. Aside from the fact that he's supposedly a distant relation (on my fraternal grandmother's side), he was a wily, hard-living, hard-drinking sonofabitch who stands out as arguably the Man of the Twentieth Century. There's little question that we wouldn't have the world we have today without him.

Aside from him, I think I would have gotten along famously with such bloodthirsty bastards as Douglas Bader.

As with some here, I have met some like him (mostly Brown Jobs) whom I still find immensely inspiring; they did what they had to do when it was necessary to do it, and they neither gave nor asked any quarter.

To me, personally, all of them are my heroes. We share certain.. er.. values.

Alex Blair (RIP) · #5 20-09-09, 03:08

If I could talk to anyone,I would like to sit down and talk to Staff Sergeant A Carl Blair.....who passed away at 90 years of age..back in 1999....
The only time he would talk of his war time experiences was a week before he died ..when I was visiting him at my sisters home in Halifax..
He served in the artillery on 25 pounders and I would give anything to talk to Carl,my dad ,again...
RIP dad....

Keith Webb · #6 20-09-09, 05:54

Interesting and timely topic. I bought a book just yesterday which has a fascinating central theme which is the reason why we had so many fatal Beaufort crashes here. One of the key reasons it was solved was because of a chap named Charles Learmonth... anyway I was thinking I would have loved to discussed this with my dad as I don't know he ever knew the reason. He served on Beauforts.

Other than that I have been very fortunate to meet and speak to many of my childhood heroes such as Bobby Gibbes, Dick Cresswell and Tony Gaze, all Australian aces.

I would love to have been able to speak to Blackjack Walker, a Beaufighter pilot and also a chap named Davenport who commanded 455 Squadron. Clive 'Killer' Caldwell is another. Then there are bomber boys such as Guy Gibson and Leonard Cheshire. I have been very fortunate to meet men who knew them well, also have some great stories from pilots who knew and flew with Douglas Bader.

For army I would like to have met Claude Auchinleck.

Jon Skagfeld · #7 24-10-09, 19:40

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Originally Posted by Rob Fast

I thought I would post this thread thinking to myself how great it would have been to sit down with all the personalities involved in WWll and share a glass of the nectar with them.
I will start this thread with a grand Lady whose angelic voice still plays in my shop on a regular basis. Cheers Rob

Kurt Meyer, Commander 12th SS (Hitler Jugend) Div, in order to try and psych him out as to why he allowed the atrocities of Abbe d'Ardennes and Oradour-sur-Glane to happen.

RHClarke · #8 06-11-09, 04:11

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Originally Posted by Jon Skagfeld

Kurt Meyer, Commander 12th SS (Hitler Jugend) Div, in order to try and psych him out as to why he allowed the atrocities of Abbe d'Ardennes and Oradour-sur-Glane to happen.

Jon, I visited the Abbe and asked a similar question to our French host. He simply replied "He was a Nazi". I think I would let him share in the terminal effects of an explosive train...

Mike Timoshyk · #9 06-11-09, 06:02

Nuf sed?

Mike

Alex Blair (RIP) · #10 10-11-09, 21:59

The Soldiers Song..God Bless 'em..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8gRx8tWJmI&NR=1

Rob Fast · #11 28-12-11, 01:21

I had a short chat with him in Winnipeg when I was a young lad, and he was gracious enough to sign something for me. Yes, a pint with him would have been alright. Just going thru all of my old slides and I came across this pic I took of him. Is that his first wife with him? Cheers Rob

sapper740 · #12 06-11-09, 01:44

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Originally Posted by Rob Fast

I thought I would post this thread thinking to myself how great it would have been to sit down with all the personalities involved in WWll and share a glass of the nectar with them.
I will start this thread with a grand Lady whose angelic voice still plays in my shop on a regular basis. Cheers Rob

The TRUE Ace of Aces of The Great War. Any student of WWI knows that in order for a kill to be counted, it had to be verified, quite often by ground troops. The swashbuckling Canadian seldom stayed on the Allied side of no man's land in order to hunt down his prey, consequently, not all his "kills" were awarded to him. Conversely, Von Richtofen did indeed spend most of his time either over no man's land where friendly troops were able to witness his kills or over land held by the Central Powers. By the end of the war, Von Richtofen had the greatest number of "confirmed" kills and so has been considered the greatest Ace of the war, but we C

anadians know better!