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The WW1 modelers' reference library => Aircraft => Topic started by: Jamo on November 02, 2014, 07:31:18 PM

Title: The Battle of the Lake (Tanganyka 1914)
Post by: Jamo on November 02, 2014, 07:31:18 PM

By Victor Houart, from the RAF Review, November 1960

(http://i1011.photobucket.com/albums/af234/Jamo_kiwi/Z%20Oddments/Africa_1.jpg)

(http://i1011.photobucket.com/albums/af234/Jamo_kiwi/Z%20Oddments/Africa_2.jpg)

(http://i1011.photobucket.com/albums/af234/Jamo_kiwi/Z%20Oddments/Africa_3.jpg)

For those who are interested to read more on this 'Boys Own' topic I can recommend these two references:

(http://i1011.photobucket.com/albums/af234/Jamo_kiwi/Karaya%20Short%20827/References.jpg)

Title: Re: The Battle of the Lake (Tanganyka 1914)
Post by: IanB on November 03, 2014, 01:41:12 AM

Thanks for posting that Jamo, very interesting! My Grandfather was an Army driver in East Africa (probably not too surprising as his parents were German immigrants!) so I have an interest in that very obscure (to most) theatre.

Ian

Title: Re: The Battle of the Lake (Tanganyka 1914)
Post by: Squiffy on November 03, 2014, 01:52:14 AM

This excellent book is about the same theatre of war but on water, not in the air. It's such a crazy story you'd think it was fiction!  :o
Mimi and Toutou Go Forth (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mimi-Toutou-Go-Forth-Tanganyika/dp/0141009845/ref=sr_1_1/278-4427227-8445059?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1414943077&sr=1-1&keywords=mimi+and+toutou+go+forth)