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The bravery, tragedy, and mystery of Captain Smirnov'''s secret diamond delivery - ABC News
"These days the wreck site at Carnot Bay has been renamed "Smirnov Beach".
Visitors still sift through the sand, romantically hoping to find a diamond or two."
The other Kimberly diamonds not from the big hole in South Africa, but some that went missing near Broome during WW II.
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Originally Posted by RANDLOVER
Maybe not looking for Diamonds at all? Maybe bottles of contraband Vodka? It isn't called Smirnov for nothing. [bigrolf]
The pilot has a great name, and was very lucky in life, I think he is just the type of guy you want flying any plane you're on, not someone who was an orphan, had to work as a garbo to put himself thru night school to get his pilot's licence, then his wife left him as he was away from home too much, etc., his life is a disaster and you don't want him sucking you into any sort of disaster involving a plane.Quote:
Originally Posted by 4bee
''Smirnov was born into a peasant family in a village east of Moscow.He enlisted in the Russian infantry in World War I, won medals for bravery — and was the only survivor of his regiment.
"He got wounded in the leg by machine gun fire in early December 1914, and was medically evacuated to Petrograd," Broome historian Michael Lake says.
"He had a five monthsconvalescent period, and probably thought, 'I don't want to be the poor bloody infantry anymore, how about aviation?''
Smirnov proved to be an ace fighter in the Red Baron style, shooting down 11 German bi-planes.
Then came the Russian Revolution.
"The Bolsheviks were not very fond of officers," aviation writer Sylvia Wrigley says.
"He and some others became concerned that they would become a target, that they would be punished or even killed, so he escaped Russia to Europe."
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Captain Ivan Smirnov's life story reads like a movie script.(Supplied:State Library Of Victoria)He ended up in the Netherlands where he flew planes for KLM, was knighted by the Queen for setting a flying record, and married Danish actress Margot Linnet.''
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Originally Posted by RANDLOVER
YEP. He looks like a Wrongun.[bigrolf]
What was that unusual sound I just heard.? Ah ha, it was the sound of all the Garbos on here logging off.:burnrubber::Rolling:
Staying on topic, why didn't the OP simply start his own forum? Gav?
Further south than that in the past:Quote:
Originally Posted by DiscoMick
Curious North Coast: How far south did crocodiles once live? - ABC News
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Originally Posted by Tins
Too cold for Brizzie so much too cold for the Adelaide Hills one assumes?
Great, I have thoughts sometimes when passing our Dam that some crank has dispensed a small Croc into it because it got too big to keep.& now it is a Monster.
I must keep on carrying my SMLE .303 when I go walkies, just in case.[bigrolf] Is right between the eyes still the place to drop 'em?
How could one manage to get a bead on a pursuing CroK? Very quickly one assumes.:Rolling:
Trees around here are much too big to climb in a hurry unless one has a Jet Belt.
Re Crox above.
We used to have an Honorary GP for our Sea Scout Troop named Dick Willing & in later years it struck me as a quite an unfortunate name.
Just sayin'
Is this thread going to die of neglect because it's more fun going off topic in other threads?
I put a Clevershade awning on the 'tilly yesterday. It took a bit of mucking around with the frame, brackets etc on the racks.
Gave it a final adjustment today. Just in time for an upcoming Moreton Island visit!
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Must be the end of cyclone season.
DL
