“Entirely British and absolutely Australian.” – Words of an Australian WWI Digger.

"We Australians, with New Zealand, represent Great Britain here in the Pacific – we are her sons – and on us the responsibility falls.
  I pledge to you my word we will not fail."  
John Curtin, Australian Prime Minister in a radio address to America on the 14th March,1942.    

Click on the photograph above for a really great film detailing preparation
 by a Czech squadron before taking-off on a mission.
Click on Churchill's name for his speeches.
Click on the other photographs for various selected documentaries.

Prime Minister Winston Churchill

Intro to English History, the Battle of Britan and Siggels' IL-2 Sturmovik 1946 Aviation Stuff

A few years ago my eldest son gave me the Battle of Britain movie, I first saw this movie in 1968 and have watched it many times since.

  So, after reading "A History of England" by Keith Feiling, I began to read some of the history of Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain. I'm now writing short articles on English history which will also feature on this site.

Last April (2011), I took up IL-2 Sturmovik 1946 because I had heard it was a great WW2 flight sim. and wanted to experience in some small measure what it must have been like for the young men (both English or German) in 1939 and 1940, flying at break-neck speeds in death-defying feats to out-smart and out-wit an equally ruthless and determined enemy.

'Siggels' IL-2 Set-up' is my contribution to the IL-2 community as well as other packages I've written, available for download here on this website.

Thanks to all the IL-2 community who have helped develop this great flight simulator.

And lastly, but most of all, thanks to the brave young men and women who fought in WWII, and to the stalwart and stoic British people who didn't cower to Hitler's demands.  And on this occasion, especially the airmen who flew, fought and died over the English Channel.

Lest We Forget.

Battle of Britain Pilot

"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."

  Prime Minister Winston Churchill, 20th August 1940

SIGGELS' IL-2 STURMOVIK 1946 AVIATION STUFF

I am dedicating my work to an Australian national hero, Group Captain Clive Caldwell.

Group Captain Clive Caldwell DSO, DFC & Bar chats to mates.
Royal Australian Air Force

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WRAF's at war.



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SIGGELS' FLIGHT CHECKLISTS PACKAGE

When you hear that bloody bell, run like hell!  Righto chaps, it's a Scramble!
Don't just stand there, get one up!

The Flight Checklists feature various aircraft.  The list is not exhaustive and only includes aircraft I have a personal interest in.  Also, some of
the checklists available here are UP 3.0 specific.  This remains a work in progress. More checklists will be published as time permits.  Everything
on this site is free to download.  There's no copyright although a donation would go a long way to enabling me to maintain and expand these helps.

'Flight Checklists' featuring the Spitfire IIa and 'Flying the Pattern':      

BAG THE HUN TRAINING AIDS PACKAGE

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TO MAKE A NAVIGATION BEZEL PACKAGE

I found a compass rose and a bezel on the internet and combined them into a really usefull navigation tool.

'How To Make A Navigation Bezel':           

JOINT-OPS VIRTUAL COMBAT FLIGHT SCHOOL

While you're here, I'd like to tell you more about Joint-Ops Virtual Combat Flight Schools. Joint-Ops is an ideal
place to learn and fine-tune the skills needed for a successful virtual air-combat career.  Here, both the beginner
and the more seasoned pilot can take advantage of the many years of professional experience of dedicated
instructors who have been teaching the many courses of instruction offered through the Joint-Ops schools.
Also, there is the opportunity to meet other pilots and access the technical help available from a very experienced
user-base

The first school offered is Basic Flight School.  This is free to the public.

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Reserved Occupations


 
Fitter and Turner working on a lathe, filing the burrs off a shaft between the faceplate and fixed steady.
Typically 6-8 years experience is required for complex machining jobs.

The other heroes are the skilled tradesmen who tirelessly worked long hours on shift, producing war industry output.
A tradesman I worked with, told me that during the war, his job as an apprentice fitter and turner on night shift, was to machine on the lathe, a bilge pump shaft,
 screwed at both ends, and keyways cut using the lathe also.  That was one bilge pump shaft each shift from start to finish.

A mamoth effort, considering the lathe was not equipped with a quick change gearbox but had change wheels instead, and also considering the lower quality of cutting tools,
ie. high carbon steel lathe tools, which fortunately, I have never had to use.  Also the lathe would have been powered by a over-head belt driven arrangement (line shaft) that was common
 in machine shops in Australia at that time.  We were generally, always behind the Brits then, in technology uptake, ie. electric motor driven machine tools.
They must have worked like the clappers to produce the much needed machine parts with the machine tools and cutting tools available.

A herculian effort by any standard!




A typical Australian 1940's line shaft machine shop, complete with apprentices at work stations.


The British administration of reserved occupations was superior to the Nazi's.  Reserved occupations played an important role in the Battle of Britain,
producing fighter aircraft, namely the Spitfire and Hurricanes.  The Battle of Britain ground down to a battle of attrition.

At the beginning of the battle, the British had just 600 fighter aircraft.  Aircraft production increased during the battle, so that there was always a reserve of fighter aircraft stored in crates,
 in old mine shafts, ready for despatch to any station sector.  The lowest number of crated fighters got down to thirty aircraft.

By this good management the British had a surplus of aircraft but a shortage of pilots, the Nazi's had a surplus of pilots but a shortage of aircraft.  Also the Nazi's drove their best pilots into the ground
by not rostering rest periods.  This practise, plus the 'Ace' culture, bred resentment by lower ranking Nazi pilots who saw themselves as fodder, used by the aces to glorify and enhance their status.

Dowding and Park, by careful management of resources availabe to them, won the battle.

It is a fact that war industry output was a key factor to winning the Battle of Britain.

(I acknowlege that women played a vital role in war production output.  The skill requirements were usually low, with minimal training.
As women's labour during the war has been adequately dealt with elsewhere, and the skilled labour of the tradesmen, in my opinion,
brushed aside, I felt a special treatment in favour of the trademen, is long over-due.
It was evident in my search for the above image, that there is an abundant number of photographs of women working on lathes,
but this above image is the only one of a tradesman working on a lathe in Britain in 1940 that I could find.
It's obvious to me that this is because certain political movements have a post-war agenda to push.)


ON THE HOME FRONT

British Women Contributing To The War Effort

AT THE SHOP FRONT

British Women queing at a shop.

British womem were vital to the war effort in many ways, not least being at the home front, making do with the scant rations
imposed on the nation.  One reason for the Blitz was to attempt to demoralise the women folk, but this was not achieved in the
slightest, but strengthened the women's resolve to carry on.

An example of how the women felt can be drawn, when a Nazi airman was dangling by his parachute from power lines.  The local women
took to their kitchen knives and started attacking the poor chap.  He was rescued by British soldiers but alas, he died later from his wounds.

Don't upset British Women whatever you do.

ENGLISH HISTORY AND THE PURSUIT OF FREEDOM

This section may not be to everybody's liking.  But what the hell.  I'm gunna publish it anyway.
 I've got a lot to tell and if you keep reading you might understand why I'm excited about what I have learned.
 Reading is a dying art I hear, and so I decided to write the stuff that's been on my mind on one-page handouts
that  crams as many facts into as a provocatve a format as possible.  I'm just interested in truth and don't have time
for all the rubbish that has smoke-screened the people from it.  There are plenty of sites that deal with the
smoke-screen, just google the key words in my handouts to find out more about those peripheral issues if you wish.

FOUR HUNDRED YEARS OF FREEDOM

The great privileges and protection that the British people have experienced throughout history are for a reason.
Read why we should celebrate the unprecedented freedom the British people have experienced for over 400 years.

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The British Empire's Reason For Being

It is said the sun never set upon the British Empire.  There is only one reason for the existence and success of the British Empire and that was to provide a platform from which God could produce a nation free from Roman Catholic interference, free the people from serfdom, which incidentally happened some five centuries before Napoleon freed Europe of serfdom (curiously the pope was made a prisoner at the same time), develop laws and institutions that promote freedom, translate the King James Bible and spread this bible around the world.  This King James Bible was then translated into a miriad of languages, thereby helping to fullfill the prophecies in the New Testament concerning the preaching of the Gospel to all the world.

God is not responsible for the evils committed by the British in the process, as He did not have complete control over the British people, but merely guided them in right paths. His people could follow or not.  That's freedom.  But His servants did to some extent redress those evils by eliminating slavery and instituting many other reforms that were adopted by Great Britain and the Empire as well as many other nations throughout the globe.

Cardinal Manning, English Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminister said in 1859:
"England is the head of Protestantism, the centre of its movements and the stronghold of its power.  Weakened in England it is paralysed everywhere.  Conquered in England, it is conquereded throughout the world.  All else is but a warfare of detail"  Jesuit Plots From Elizabethan to Mordern Times by Albert Close p. 18.

The British Empire declined when the people re-admitted the Roman Catholic Jesuit priests after two hundred years of exile.  The British weren't the only nation to exile the Jesuits, and for good reason.  Soon after their re-admittance, a steady decline in the Protestant faith followed, beginning with the Oxford Movement, where today, the people have almost completely forgotten their Protestant heritage and are now being over-run by Roman Catholics, Mohammedans and others.  When a nation looses the control their own borders, they have lost their sovereignty.  Great Britain has lost her national sovereignty and is now chained to the Vatican inspired Nazi European Union.

Hitler has a partial win!

What is astounding is the fact it takes an Australian like me to see the reality of the situation.  The British are truly blinded as was Samson upon his capture.  But there are Brits who have not let the side down and are making themselves heard.

I'm sorry this is not a popular view.  As I've read in the Scriptures, God wasn't very popular either.  This is probably the first time you have been exposed to such a viewpoint.  The reason being, that those with such viewpoints are hounded down into silence.

Just have a look at this movie, exposing secret societies.  Note the reaction of the audience when the truth is told.

THE FOURTH REICH

The Reich has world domination as it's ultimate goal.  The 3rd Reich was never defeated. It just transitioned to the 4th Reich via the UN and the EU with some help from 'Paper Clip' , etc.  It's final stage is a fascist NWO.
 

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My British Fortress

So where does all this leave me.  Knowing that the British Empire has fallen and the Protestant Fortress of Britain is falling.  It leaves me wondering.  And I've come to the conclusion that if there is no longer a British Fortress to rely upon out there, I must fall back upon the resolve to stand for the right though the heavens fall, and be a fortress to my loved ones.  And if my home falls, then it's up to me to stand on my own.

Well, it's actually God who is my fortress, and a mighty fortress He is.  He wants me to imitate Him is some small way, but not as an act of saving myself but rather as an example to others, how my saving relationship with God changes me so I reflect Him.

I invite all to become the fortress God intends you to be.  It doesn't matter what your nationality is, or your race.  God wanted the British Empire to be a blessing to the world through the spreading of freedom and the Holy Bible to the four corners of the globe.  Accept His invitation offered freely to all.  In Acts 16:30-31 KJB, the Philippian jailer asked Paul and Silas: “ . . . ‘Sirs, what must I do to be saved?’ And they said, ‘Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved . . . .’ ”

"If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed."   John 8:36 KJB

Amen.

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