Updates 1st full week of June

Updates this past week...

Started new section on Claims/Victories for squadron, it will be ongoing as I recieve pictures, documents, and refining present text etc...

Also have a couple of dozen more photo's to add but awaiting descriptions for photo's before posting.

A number of bio's are currently being worked on to add to "Individual" category.

Alan

Last Week of May 2007, updates...

Hello Everyone,

Thanks for dropping by and and I look forward to your comments, suggestions or any submissions you may have.

Adding more to 434 Squadron History page (Victories/Claims), a separate page "Aircrew Victories/Claims" will also be added.

Documents - Added full report for "Bomber Command Report On Night Operations" also added a complete page for a "Combat Report". Should anyone have a document not seen in this category, feel free to send and I will be grateful to post it. 

New "Acknowledgments" added to navigation bar and will be work in progress...

Have a nice week, Alan

Past week updates...

Added to crew photo's courtesy of Richard Koval and his 434 section, added domain so url is now http://www.rcaf434squadron.com/

Numerous pdf's added to newspaper archives, a few more documents in Research Documents? Spelling errors corrected and will be an ongoing process.

Update

This is a blog, anyone can comment on anything I write, including ideas, spelling errors, add links (I think) etc... However once spam starts to appear I will start adding filters. I have added pictures to numerous categories in past couple of days. Keep in mind they may not appear at bottom of those pages as added last, I have the ability to drop and drag where I want. Example; I can keep groups of individuals together as a one crew as I recieve each of thier photos over months, or put strike photos in chronological order by date, but I haven't yet.

I have recieved a lot of info on a raid to Vaires France, pictures, documents, personal letters etc... so I may create a separate page for this raid. This will only be a one time thing to indicate how much data a person could collect if he chose to do so, it's also interesting on how much planning went into a raid. What is posted on Vaires presently will be moved to a new page/topic when complete.

Newspaper Archives is new, many newspapers have digitized thier newspapers, one example is the Canadian War Museum (as contraversial as they are) have a very good data bank of news clippings from WW II, very detailed in search engine. I have posted some entries already. Keep in mind if you have a newspaper clipping of interest to 434 it can also be used.

Research Documents is also new, hopefully adding jpg photos of any document which is useful in research, or of interest. What a lot of us researchers take for granted or know may not be familiar for a student, or relative of an individual whom served in the Armed Forces. Again if you have a document it can be photographed and added to site.

A forum is in the works, deciding about topics, Bombercrew.com has a forum so I do not want to take away from Matt's board, so I will put up a few different topics for another angle on sharing info.

By the way I moved Crew Roster and Mining Campaign from "Links" to the navigation bar on main page, a pdf version/printer friendly (Crew Roster) is hopefully going to be available for download within a week. Mining Campaign is currently on Bombercrew site and will be updated and available to both sites when update complete.

Anyway I'm getting long winded... Alan

Update on Thursday, May 17, 2007 at 09:07AM by Alan Soderstrom

Entire Crew Roster & Honors/Awards now available in "Crew Roster Download", PDF printer friendly as well as Excell Spread Sheet. However I may have creator of PDF file increase Font size.

Added numerous jpg documents to "Research Documents" and Picture to main page, Also forum is up and available for posts. I have only posted my site on about 3 sites since being online, guess I should do more advertising of RCAF 434 Squadron.

Alan