To Ian and Jill @ 57 Rescue the very best of festive greetings to you both and a big thank you for all your hard work and efforts over the past year for ensuring that we all have this place to meet and exchange info - not to mention the excellent 57 Rescue website.
Wishing you and all other visitors to this forum a very Happy Christmas and a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous 2005.
as a "newbie" to this site, i must also say thanks for it being here. i am just getting associated with the forum and find it a nice place to visit.there is obviously a lot of hard work that goes into it, and it is appreciated!!.as a side note, i have often looked at my great-uncle's log book and saw that the last christmas he celebrated was with 78sqn in 1942.on christmas eve of that year, he ferried a halifax to a different base than his own with only another pilot.they were alone in that plane that night, and didn't return until the 28th with a different kite, and god only knows the fun they must have had over the holidays.
the image i can't shake, though , is the one of them flying over northern england on christmas eve looking out over a peaceful yet war torn land on a most sacred night.at the time, he had one other brother in the raf, and one in the navy.i can't help but feel that there may have been few words spoken that night.this being his first christmas away from canada, i can only assume that he was really missing his younger sister back here, and wondering how his other brothers(whom were also in the service) were doing.this was the last christmas he would live to see before dying in his halifax early the next year.it is a powerful, lingering vision for me; even if it is one only my imagination produces.
so let us celebrate being families and being together, and may the work of 57 rescue continue well into the new year.
(too early to wish you a happy new year, but that will come, don't fear.)
Thanks to all for their effort and enthusiasm for the No. 1 Halifax site. Especially to Ian and Jill whose relentless persistance have guided the site through some troubled times.
Perhaps Ian & Jill's card could be for real in 2005 when NA337 will hopefully stand on her own legs and is complete once more.
Hi I would like to thank IAN and everyone involved with 57 Rescue. This site over the past two years has brought me closer to a brother i hardly ever knew , i was only 14 when he lost his life ,he was 19 A million thanks to you all .Have a wonderful christmas and a happy and peaceful new year.HAROLD DUMMER
I would like to put a Halifax MK VI in all your Christmas stockings. However, they do not build stockings big enough and there is not enough time left this year to recover another one so I will just say keep up your excellent work and:
Merry Christmas and a Healthy and Prosperous New Year to all of you Halifax experts and fans.
