FLYING OFFICER J.L. THOMPSON

Subject:     460SQN
Date:              Sat, 26 Dec 1998 17:39:18 +1000
From:            Dave Holmes <dave@dove.net.au>

I have just had a quick look at your web page on 460SQN RAAF. A few months ago I came across another page on 460 by Gordon Stooke (gstooke@netlink.com.au). It was very similar in content and very interesting just as yours is.

I know a bloke who was with 460 SQN from 30 Apr 45 - 18 Jul 45, 437173 FLG OFF Thompson J L (pilot) and like many who were there he has some interesting stories.

Keep up the good work

Regards

Dave Holmes

Subject:   460 Squadron
Date:           Sun, 09 May 1999 16:49:29 +0900
From:          Dave Holmes <dave@dove.net.au>

Peter

I don't know if you read the Womans Weekly but there was somebody looking for a J L Thomson the service no. etc matches the bloke I know from 460SQN.

Anyway his daughter contacted him about it and the Womans Weekly is going to do a story about it it seems that some of his crew are still alive and they will get them all together.

So keep a look out for the Womans Weekly I will be.

Regards

Dave Holmes

Subject:    460 Squadron
Date:             Sun, 30 Apr 2000 20:46:03 +0900
From:           Dave Holmes <dave@dove.net.au>

>Gidday Dave,
>Did the story ever appear in the Womans Weekly?

G'day Peter,

I must apologise, the answer is no.

It seems that the story was a bit embellished by the time it got to me, but John Thomson is still alive and kicking (he just turned 77 ) and he has been in contact with the member of his crew who put the letter in the Womans Weekly.

John tells me that there are still 4 members from his crew still alive and scattered around Australia.

I have attached some info to add to your MILITARY AIRCRAFT CRASHES AUSTRALIA DURING WW2 YEARS pages. I hope you can read MS WORD.doc files.

The information was taken from the book A'OSIS AIRFIELD Researched and published by Ron Telford, Mount Gambier ISBN 0-646-35143-5, First published 1997

page 108
Record of 2 AOS Aircraft Crashes and Forced Landings 1941-45

Also on your SA crashes page the crash 14 Oct 42 5 miles west of Tantanoola
RAAF Avro Anson AY849
This a/c may have been AW849 which was allocated to 2AOS in Dec41.

There was also an a/c crashed in the Benara area 12km sw of Mt Gambier it is beleived to be an Airacobra, the pilot parachuted to safety only to be captured by a local farmer who thought that it must be a Jap, the cockpit door complete with pilot logbook was found by a friend's father but later returned. There is no record of this in the A'OSIS book

Well this certainly wasn't the way I was going to spend my Sunday, we have just come home from holidays, but I have enjoyed scrounging through the small amount of information I have and looking at some of your pages that I hadn't seen before. Keep up the good work!

Regards
Dave Holmes

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