User:Folks at 137

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I'm a recent contributor, mainly since August 2005, and prone to over-simplifying. But basically good-natured and I try to avoid nastiness. I'm still getting to grips with conventions and rules.

Areas of interest have been fairly random, but include WW2, places I've visited and my area of work. Contributions include:

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[edit] Stoneage or Stone Age?

Dear Folks- When I wrote my book on the subject (Hell, ten years ago, gosh I am old!) of military codewords, my sources indicated it was two words. Those sources were with the (American) Merchant Marine. Of course in those days before cut-and-paste spelling and other errors were rampant. (Check out Operation Starlite for a good example.

So if you would like to change it to one word, please feel free. I would ask you to add a link to a page for the two word variant, which might just be that, a variant.

Finally, are you and I the only people with an unusual attraction to codewords?

Paul, in Saudi 02:08, 30 November 2005 (UTC)


Dear Folks- I would not want to say with authority which is correct. As likely as not, some typist put it one way on some documents and the other way on others. In those pre-computer time things like that were accepted pretty well.

Due to security concerns, I am on dialup for the next few weeks. Please do not think I am ignoring your fine contributions. Paul, in Saudi 14:43, 3 December 2005 (UTC)


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Career The White Ensign of the Royal Navy.
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Armour:
Original configuration		 magazine box protection,
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side-plating,turrets and bulkheads,
belt,
internal boiler room sides (added 1936-1940).
Aircraft:
Career (Canada) The RCN used the White Ensign during WWII
Name: HMCS Algonquin
Builder: John Brown & Company, Clydebank
Laid down: 8 October 1942
Launched: 2 September 1943
Commissioned: 28 February 1944
Out of service: 6 February 1946
Refit: 1954
Motto: A coup sur (With sure stroke)
Honours and
awards:		 Norway, 1944
Normandy, 1944
Arctic, 1944-1945
Fate: scrapped April 1971
Badge: Blazon Sable, a base barry wavy argent and azure of four, from which issues an Indian's arm embowed proper wearing arm and wrist bands argent and holding a fish spear in bend argent transfixing an eel or[1]
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type: V-Class destroyer
Displacement: 1710 tons (standard)
Length: 363ft (overall)
Beam: 36ft
Draught: 10ft
Propulsion: 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers, 2-shaft Parsons geared turbines
40,000shp
Speed: 36 knots
Range: 4,680nm at 20kts
Complement: 180
Sensors and
processing systems:		 HF/DF
Electronic warfare
and decoys:		 Radar 272, later Radar 276
Armament: 4 4.7in QF Mk IX (4x1)
2 40mm Mk IV
4 20mm (4x1)
8 21in torpedo tubes (2x4)

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Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside
May 6 1880 – September 22 1959

Ironside (centre) with Polish chief of staff Gen. Wacław Stachiewicz (left)
Nickname Tiny
Place of birth Edinburgh
Place of death Queen Alexandra Military Hospital, London
Allegiance United Kingdom
Service/branch Royal Artillery, British Army
Years of service 1887 - death
Rank Field Marshal
Commands held 99th Infantry Brigade (1918)
Allied Troops Archangel (1918 - 1919
Ismid Force (1920)
North Persian Force (1921)
Staff College, Camberley (1922 - 1926)
2nd Division (1926 - 1928)
Meerut District, India
Eastern District (1936 - 1938)
Governor and C-in-C, Gibraltar (1938 - 1939)
Inspector-General of Overseas Forces (1939)
CIGS (1939 - 1940)
C-in-C Home Forces
Battles/wars South African War
World War I
North Russia Campaign
World War II
Awards [2]Mentioned in Despatches, DSO (1915), CMG (1918), KCB (1918), GCB (1938), created Baron Ironside of Archangel (1941), CBE (1952), Croix de Guerre avec Palme (2nd Class), Order of St. Vladimir, Croix d'Officier de la Légion d'Honneur, Grand Croix de la Légion d'Honneur (1946)


The Allies
•  Soviet Union
•  United Kingdom
•  United States
•  China
•  Poland
•  France
•  Netherlands
•  Belgium
•  Canada
•  Norway
•  Greece
•  Yugoslavia
•  Czechoslovakia
•  Australia
•  New Zealand
•  South Africa
•  India
•  Egypt
•  Brazil
• more...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Ships/Ensigns

The Axis
•  Germany
•  Japan
• Kingdom of Italy Italy
• Hungary
•  Bulgaria
•  Romania
•  Finland
•  Croatia
•  Slovakia
• more... |-

[edit] websites

http://www.royalnavyresearcharchive.org.uk/ESCORT/index.htm http://uboat.net/allies/warships/ http://www.regiamarina.it/names.htm http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/ http://www.combinedfleet.com/kaigun.htm http://www.german-navy.de/kriegsmarine/ships/index.html http://richardwhite1.tripod.com/id65.htm http://www.burmastar.org.uk/eastern_fleet.htm http://www.fleetairarmoa.org/asp/fleetairarm.asp?ServiceType=4

[edit] Which flag?

After discussions, the advice is to use naval ensigns, not jacks - see Wikipedia:WikiProject Ships/Tables. The correct US flag has been selected by a template - see the US entry in Wikipedia:WikiProject Ships/Ensigns. Folks at 137 12:45, 1 July 2007 (UTC)


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