Toast 16,209 Posted August 2, 2020 3 minutes ago, Sir Creep said: Is URSS some gdamn Gen Y thing? It’s USSR just ask the fucking Beatles. We are English speaking folk around here so stick that alt name up your arsesky. I’m sure Sergei never spent a day fighting for the URSS fuxsake. SirC Drol's from Italy, isn't he? I think it's just a language thing. Like AIDS is SIDA in French. Similar words but different order. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
time 8,655 Posted August 2, 2020 12 minutes ago, Sir Creep said: Is URSS some gdamn Gen Y thing? It’s USSR just ask the fucking Beatles. We are English speaking folk around here so stick that alt name up your arsesky. I’m sure Sergei never spent a day fighting for the URSS fuxsake. SirC In that case, I expect to see colours, rumours, realise, etc in your future posts. Two nations separated by a common language Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Toast 16,209 Posted August 2, 2020 8 minutes ago, time said: In that case, I expect to see colours, rumours, realise, etc in your future posts. Two nations separated by a common language To be fair, he did say arsesky and not asssky. assky? 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drol 12,085 Posted August 3, 2020 21 hours ago, Toast said: Drol's from Italy, isn't he? I think it's just a language thing. Like AIDS is SIDA in French. Similar words but different order. Yes, it stands for Unione Repubbliche Socialiste Sovietiche. My bad, it is different in English. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,142 Posted August 6, 2020 @msc Just if you are struggling for a news spot on the DDP, here's a lovely recent story on John Cruickshank VC: https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/aberdeen/2240459/woman-thanks-aberdeen-war-hero-for-miracle-rescue-of-her-australian-pilot-dad/ Nice for me to have something positive to post, rather than the miserableness of trembling low hanging fruit.... 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Old Crem 3,621 Posted August 17, 2020 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8628367/D-Day-veteran-dies-aged-96.html D-Day veteran John Hutton has died aged 96 - last year he replicated his parachute jump into Normandy for the 75th anniversary. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,071 Posted August 17, 2020 8 hours ago, The Old Crem said: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8628367/D-Day-veteran-dies-aged-96.html D-Day veteran John Hutton has died aged 96 - last year he replicated his parachute jump into Normandy for the 75th anniversary. Proving life has its ups and downs 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arghton 6,829 Posted August 25, 2020 On 10/11/2011 at 03:17, time said: Watched BBC 2's Timewatch last night, about the Dambusters raid. Three of the surviving aircrew appeared. New Zealander Les Munro, is 92 and the only pilot still alive; Bomb-aimer George 'Johnny' Johnson, now 90, and the only Briton surviving;. RCAF F/Sgt Grant MacDonald (age unknown but c90+) was a front-gunner. Munro and Johnson are pretty much guaranteed UK obituaries, MacDonald, maybe less so. Sgt Fred Sutherland (RCAF) is believed to be the only other airman still alive. Was reading the posts from the first page. They're from 2011. Interesting that both George Johnson and Fred Sutherland are still alive, now 98 and 97. Edit: Apparently Sutherland died last year. Didn't check the wikipedia page but google mentioned that he'd still be alive. Darn Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arghton 6,829 Posted September 18, 2020 Heikki A. Reenpää, longtime owner of the Finnish publisher Otava and ww2 vet, known for being Marshal of Finland Baron C.G.E. Mannerheim's car driver and a friend of wartime president of Finland Risto Ryti and for his long "colorful" life has died at age 98. https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-11551769 https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heikki_A._Reenpää 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arghton 6,829 Posted October 23, 2020 Is anyone keeping track on the last medal recipients of WWII? I've found a couple of medals where there are only one or two left of the ones who recieved it (or of the ones who recieved it during wwII) Medal of Honour (United States, awarded 473 times): Charles H. Coolidge, Technical Sergeant, 99 DEAD Hershel W. Williams, Chief warrant officer 4, 97 Victoria Cross (United Kingdom, awarded 182 times): John Cruickshank, Flight Lieutenant, 100 Mannerheim Cross (Finland, awarded 197 times): Tuomas Gerdt, Sergeant, 98 DEAD Military Order of William (Netherlands, awarded ? times): Kenneth Mayhew, Major, 103 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Whitehouse 873 Posted October 31, 2020 The last Belgian pilot who flew on D-day died October 29th. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,142 Posted November 1, 2020 On 23/10/2020 at 12:19, arghton said: Is anyone keeping track on the last medal recipients of WWII? I've found a couple of medals where there are only one or two left of the ones who recieved it (or of the ones who recieved it during wwII) Mannerheim Cross (Finland, awarded 197 times): Tuomas Gerdt, Sergeant, 98 Tuomas Gerdt dead: https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=fi&u=https://www.hs.fi/kotimaa/art-2000006707623.html&prev=search&pto=aue 4 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arghton 6,829 Posted November 1, 2020 1 hour ago, YoungWillz said: Tuomas Gerdt dead: https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=fi&u=https://www.hs.fi/kotimaa/art-2000006707623.html&prev=search&pto=aue Big death to Finns. Knights of the Mannerheim cross were very respected here and Gerdt had become a symbol for Finnish wwII veterans and after his death Jaakko Valtanen is probably the only left wwII veteran known by most of finns. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,142 Posted November 6, 2020 On 08/05/2020 at 10:12, Ulitzer95 said: For anyone interested, Absolute Radio have set up a one day only Radio 40s station you can find here. They're playing records from 1920s–1940s, news clips from the day and talking with veterans. A lot of it is very entertaining stuff. Jim Radford and Captain Tom Moore appeared earlier. Though had to turn it off temporarily when Frank Skinner came on to play a George Formby song on his uke – just awful. Jim Radford reportedly dead: Should get him out of those sexual offence accusations... 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arghton 6,829 Posted November 6, 2020 Economist Kimmo Kara died last month aged 101. Finnish wikipedia page: https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimmo_Kara https://www.hs.fi/muistot/art-2000007021104.html Probably one of the last people (if not the last one) who was in Marshal of Finland CGE Mannerheim's headquarters during WWII and who knew Mannerheim. Not a combat veteran in any way, but was involved in de-coding messages during the war. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,381 Posted November 7, 2020 Pierre Simonet, a World War II French liberation hero and one of three surviving soldiers decorated by Charles de Gaulle for his role in the liberation of France, has died. He was 99. French President Emmanuel Macron paid tribute to Simonet after learning of his death. https://www.connexionfrance.com/French-news/WW2-French-liberation-resistance-hero-Pierre-Simonet-has-died-at-the-age-of-99 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 12,769 Posted November 8, 2020 On 06/11/2020 at 16:34, YoungWillz said: Jim Radford reportedly dead: Should get him out of those sexual offence accusations... Shocked that no major news organisations have reported this yet. Same with actor John Fraser. The British press are still too busy salivating about the news of Biden/Harris. Even the U.S. media have pretty much stopped talking about it constantly on rolling news by now. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 12,769 Posted November 9, 2020 On 06/11/2020 at 16:34, YoungWillz said: Jim Radford reportedly dead: Should get him out of those sexual offence accusations... Local obit 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 12,769 Posted November 13, 2020 On 06/11/2020 at 16:34, YoungWillz said: Jim Radford reportedly dead: Should get him out of those sexual offence accusations... Jim Radford featured alongside Lord Sacks and John Sessions on the latest episode of The Last Word. Does that count as a QO? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,512 Posted November 13, 2020 12 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said: Jim Radford featured alongside Lord Sacks and John Sessions on the latest episode of The Last Word. Does that count as a QO? Last Word doesn't because "The notice of death must be in written English. Video links are only accepted if the strapline mentions the celeb’s passing." However, each Last Word episode has this page. Which is a straight up mention of death in a QO. Rules: bbc.co.uk/news (and all subsections, including the previously banned local news pages) Does "ALL subsections" include pages for BBC News Programmes on the programmes section like this? I've just assumed no, but let's see what the forum thinks... The closest we've come to testing this rule was Cynthia Heimel's death, but the blurb didn't mention she was getting a tribute on that particular news broadcast... (Hang on, he's not a DDP pick, but I guess that's another unsorted loophole...) 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 12,769 Posted November 13, 2020 6 minutes ago, msc said: Last Word doesn't because "The notice of death must be in written English. Video links are only accepted if the strapline mentions the celeb’s passing." However, each Last Word episode has this page. Which is a straight up mention of death in a QO. Rules: bbc.co.uk/news (and all subsections, including the previously banned local news pages) Does "ALL subsections" include pages for BBC News Programmes on the programmes section like this? I've just assumed no, but let's see what the forum thinks... The closest we've come to testing this rule was Cynthia Heimel's death, but the blurb didn't mention she was getting a tribute on that particular news broadcast... (Hang on, he's not a DDP pick, but I guess that's another unsorted loophole...) Yeah, I didn’t check if he was a pick. Handy to know though. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Toast 16,209 Posted November 13, 2020 11 minutes ago, msc said: Does "ALL subsections" include pages for BBC News Programmes on the programmes section like this? I've just assumed no, but let's see what the forum thinks... In the case of Last Word, it couldn't be more in the spirit of a proper obituary. Much more than a passing mention. So I think it should count as a QO. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,512 Posted November 13, 2020 1 hour ago, Ulitzer95 said: Yeah, I didn’t check if he was a pick. Handy to know though. 1 hour ago, Toast said: In the case of Last Word, it couldn't be more in the spirit of a proper obituary. Much more than a passing mention. So I think it should count as a QO. Rest of committee had assumed I meant pages like this when I said all subsections of BBC news, so, yes, the Last Word page ( note the death has to be written down) counts. It's different from the long running BBC Music pages debate as those are taken off Wiki whereas this is written by the production staff. Another loophole that needs spelt out in the rules! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,381 Posted January 9, 2021 Eleanor Wadsworth, Britain's last surviving female World War II pilot, has died. She was 103. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/13691288/britains-last-surviving-female-spitfire-war-pilot-dies-103/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebarweb 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 12,769 Posted January 9, 2021 26 minutes ago, alt obits guy said: Eleanor Wadsworth, Britain's last surviving female World War II pilot, has died. She was 103. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/13691288/britains-last-surviving-female-spitfire-war-pilot-dies-103/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebarweb Hmm... misleading heading. If you read the end of the article, it explains that there are still two alive, both 100+, but they emigrated to North America. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
