Tattoos on girls' bodies .............a signal of diminished intelligence.
jh
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From: "Andrew Fildes" <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 7:38 AM
Subject: [OM] A tale of Australian aviation for the flyers here...
>A flimsy excuse for posting a girlie pic but amusing at least.
> The young lady here -
> http://www.pbase.com/afildes/image/129529700
> - came in the other day to do some retro pin-ups. A concept compromised
> somewhat by the tattoos but she belongs to an odd subculture of girls who
> like ink but don't go in for the conventional burlesque style popular
> these days. Lovely girl in ohsomany ways.
> Anyway, I was interested in the image on her left shoulder - it's a
> depiction of a WW2 Beaufort bomber dropping beer bottles. Most unusual.
> Turns out her late grandfather was a member of RAAF 71 Wing who carried
> out one of the last strikes of the war. Gun crew on a Beaufort. There is
> some argument about whether they went ahead with the run despite knowing
> that the Japanese had surrendered. Anyway, as well as bombs they dropped
> empty beer bottles with razor blades in their throat to act as screamers,
> hoping to persuade the Japanese troops below to jump into the croc
> infested rivers. She had the tatt done as a personal memorial to her
> grandfather.
> 700 Bristol Beauforts were built in Melbourne.
> http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb271/is_4_47/ai_n29322108/
> http://home.st.net.au/~dunn/museums/abbr.htm
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> Andrew Fildes
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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