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Member no. U229957 Started conversation Sep 3, 2003
Hi Mark!
It's really very sad that you are leaving the BEEB in a couple of days whilst I'm leaving to-day!
It can all be found in my final Bader post, my personal page and e-mails to and from the moderators about a fellow known as researcher 240119.
Here is the latest version of my now defunct Personal Page.
AS OF TODAY, SEPTEMBER 3RD 2003 I WILL HAVE NO FURTHER PARTICIPATION IN THIS WW2 WEBSITE. YOU WILL FIND THE REASONS AS A POST ON MY DOUGLAS BADER ENIGMA ESSAY. WHERE YOU WILL ALSO FIND DETAILS OF HOW TO CONTACT ME. IF YOU WISH TO E-MAIL ME SEND TO [email protected]
So again
Good Luck and Au revoir!
KEN
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Mark E Posted Sep 3, 2003
Dear Ken
I'm so sorry that you feel things have come to this. I've read the threads on your Bader page. I understand that you have had some correspondence outside of this site that may well help your investigations further, and for this in particular I wish you the very best of luck!
I hope that you will keep in touch?
Mark
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Member no. U229957 Posted Sep 3, 2003
Dear Mark,
Just to clarify, the posts on my Bader Story are not the specific ones that have caused me to abandon the BBC.
I now longer know where to find them but I'm sure you will know where to go. I hope you will understand why I feel as I do after you have digested them.
As a thought, it might be an idea to mention to your moderators that they, in their 20's perhaps would have a totally different view of what is or is not "acceptable" that would I think, not "compute" with the standards of behavioue expected by people in their late seventies and eighties, people who this site is all about.
My private "talks" off-site have just resulted in a setback for me.
If I tell you that my contact has only this minute advised me that Alec Ross, who was Bader's batman died peacefully in his sleep to-day. This may give you an idea of where I am/was with this story. I expect he will no doubt receive some press? However all is not yet lost.
You and I? Nothing has changed!
Cheers
Ken
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Member no. U229957 Posted Sep 3, 2003
Mark
If I had the slightest thought about perhaps NOT leaving this site, and I didn't, your moderators have now set my decision in concrete by HIDING my final post No.12.
The ultimate insult indeed.
Ken
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Mark E Posted Sep 3, 2003
Dear Ken
I'm glad nothing has changed - I was (and now still am!) really looking forward to an excursion into the Hunter Valley!
We are all still finding our feet here at the site, it's a hugely complex operation to manage, and we have such a diverse audience it adds to the difficulty. Clearly we don't yet have everything right.
I had no idea about Douglas Bader's batman. I see that could have been very fruitful for you, but another avenue closes. But glad all is not lost. Maybe you could ask a question of Walter Morrison, the chap who has written the (in my view) excellent article Colditz: The Last Days:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ww2/A1119827
As an aside, the National Archives (formerly the Public Records Office) hold the records of a particular airman (I forget his name) who dropped the tin legs into Germany, which includes an account of this mission. The record is online (in as much as you can find the reference numbers etc), the actual content they don't put online, but I gather that it is possible to arrange for people to retrieve the records for you if you wished to do so (I don't know how much this costs though). I think you might even be able to order an electronic version online, now I come to think of it (again I don't know the price).
The record is here (stupid address to follow):
http://catalogue.pro.gov.uk/DisplayCatalogueDetails.asp?CATID=3781651&CATLN=6&Highlight=%2CDOUGLAS%2CBADER&EncodedRef=AIR%25%24%40%2A%28%21%409%25%24%40%2A%28%21%404%25%24%40%2A%28%21%40%25%24%40%2A%28%21%403%25%24%40%2A%28%21%40%25%24%40%2A%28%21%40210%25%24%40%2A%28%21%40&DTN=4
Best, Mark
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