User:Folks at 137

Dear Reader,

Thankyou for dropping by my home page.

If you wish to leave a message, insult, praise, etc, then please use my talk page. Thanks.

I've contributed since August 2005, and prone to over-simplifying. But basically good-natured and I try to avoid nastiness.

Areas of interest have been fairly random, but include WW2, railways, Hertfordshire, places I've visited and my areas of work. Contributions have included:
 * Arranmore
 * Battle of Hurtgen Forest
 * Booze cruise
 * Capitani Romani class cruiser
 * Condottieri class cruiser
 * Electronic data processing
 * German battleship Tirpitz
 * Hemel Hempstead
 * HMS Unicorn (I72)
 * Islington North (UK Parliament constituency)
 * Japanese World War II destroyers
 * Krujë
 * Ksamil
 * List of operations and projects (military and non-military)
 * List of World War II ships
 * Malta Convoys
 * Operation Berlin
 * Samuel Ryder
 * Saulxures-sur-Moselotte
 * Spain in World War II
 * Spring Offensive
 * The Life That I Have
 * Tirana
 * Wangford
 * William Hood Simpson

Work in progress
 * Philip Vian
 * Irish National Botanic Gardens

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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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 • Italy • Hungary • Bulgaria • Romania • Finland • Croatia • Slovakia • more...

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
 * http://www.maritimequest.com/alphabetical_listing/index.htm

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

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Virtuti Militari, Silver Cross Cross of Valour (Poland), three times Polonia Restituta, Knight's Cross Polonia Restituta, Commander's Cross Distinguished Flying Cross (United Kingdom) Croix de Guerre (France)

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