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[Paphitis]

The plot thickens Paphitis, I too will dig a little deeper.

Quite!

So far, apart from your credible source which states that Clerides was a Gunner.

I have discovered other sources which state he was:
1) a radio operator,
2) a Navigator (I even found a photo of him wearing the 1/2 wings),
3) a Bomber pilot (from Wellingtons to Mosquitos), and
4) a Fighter Pilot (Spitfire).

Now it is possible that he could have been upgraded from Gunner, or navigator to pilot. This was common in WW2.

But he couldn't have been a Bomber Pilot and a Fighter Pilot. They are 2 completely different things.

Can anyone add any more information please?

[YFred]

The plot thickens Paphitis, I too will dig a little deeper.

Quite!

So far, apart from your credible source which states that Clerides was a Gunner.

I have discovered other sources which state he was:
1) a radio operator,
2) a Navigator (I even found a photo of him wearing the 1/2 wings),
3) a Bomber pilot (from Wellingtons to Mosquitos), and
4) a Fighter Pilot (Spitfire).

Now it is possible that he could have been upgraded from Gunner, or navigator to pilot. This was common in WW2.

But he couldn't have been a Bomber Pilot and a Fighter Pilot. They are 2 completely different things.

Can anyone add any more information please?

He can't be an Arsenal supporter surely, what would DT think of that? He must support one of the crap football teams in the south.

[wyoming cowboy]

HOW CYPRUS CAN BE SAVED???

Give me command of the CNG and the ministry of foreign affairs, and I will give you a 100% liberated Cyprus within a month.

Get REal you are full of skata, a young punk like you who has never been shot at, would crap his pants at the first sign of bullet coming at you..........

[YFred]

HOW CYPRUS CAN BE SAVED???

Give me command of the CNG and the ministry of foreign affairs, and I will give you a 100% liberated Cyprus within a month.

Get REal you are full of skata, a young punk like you who has never been shot at, would crap his pants at the first sign of bullet coming at you..........

Dashak Ali dayi. Leave GR alone. He is our only salvation.

He will attack, Turkey will take the whole of Cyprus in 3 hours and the Cyprus problem will be solved.

[Get Real!]

HOW CYPRUS CAN BE SAVED???

Give me command of the CNG and the ministry of foreign affairs, and I will give you a 100% liberated Cyprus within a month.

Get REal you are full of skata, a young punk like you who has never been shot at, would crap his pants at the first sign of bullet coming at you..........

Your tendency to assume everything is what keeps you a boring, predictable, and uncharismatic average schmuck. Now get lost.

[wyoming cowboy]

HOW CYPRUS CAN BE SAVED???

Give me command of the CNG and the ministry of foreign affairs, and I will give you a 100% liberated Cyprus within a month.

Get REal you are full of skata, a young punk like you who has never been shot at, would crap his pants at the first sign of bullet coming at you..........

Your tendency to assume everything is what keeps you a boring, predictable, and uncharismatic average schmuck. Now get lost.

You just posted the stupidest quote of the month......Allright GR get your G3 and go get them....i think you can do it

[Get Real!]

HOW CYPRUS CAN BE SAVED???

Give me command of the CNG and the ministry of foreign affairs, and I will give you a 100% liberated Cyprus within a month.

Get REal you are full of skata, a young punk like you who has never been shot at, would crap his pants at the first sign of bullet coming at you..........

Your tendency to assume everything is what keeps you a boring, predictable, and uncharismatic average schmuck. Now get lost.

You just posted the stupidest quote of the month......Allright GR get your G3 and go get them....i think you can do it

Anything bred by the American sewer bores me shitless so just shut it and get lost.

[wyoming cowboy]

HOW CYPRUS CAN BE SAVED???

Give me command of the CNG and the ministry of foreign affairs, and I will give you a 100% liberated Cyprus within a month.

Get REal you are full of skata, a young punk like you who has never been shot at, would crap his pants at the first sign of bullet coming at you..........

Your tendency to assume everything is what keeps you a boring, predictable, and uncharismatic average schmuck. Now get lost.

You just posted the stupidest quote of the month......Allright GR get your G3 and go get them....i thRink you can do it

Anything bred by the American sewer bores me shitless so just shut it and get lost.

GR i think you are right man, sorry if i bore you, but im starting to see your point of views.....Youve convinced me....I strongly urge you again get your G3 with a load of bullets, and take them out, i think your masterful plan will work.....after you read this post i urge you to do it......go climb pentadaktylos and conquer the Turks....

[Pyrpolizer]

At the risk of being labelled a pedant: -

"Another A Flight crew flying that night was captained by Sgt Baden Fereday. Sgt Fereday was an experienced pilot with 15 operational flights recorded in his log book. Sgt Kelvin Shoesmith, an Australian, manned his rear turret. His wireless operator, Sgt Glafkos Clerides, was a Greek Cypriot who had been educated at an English Public School"

Clerides flew as wireless operator in a Wellington Bomber.
http://www.raf.mod.uk/rafmarham/aboutus/memory7.cfm

what english public school?

Just like the rest of us genius's he went to the English School in Nicosia.

Actually he was expelled from high school AND BECAUSE HE WAS RICH he managed to continue at the English school. There he learned how to talk with an accent, and pretend he gets confused when using lengthy Greek words. What an idiot!
During the 60s he was heavily addicted to alcohol, and drunk all the time even at the negotiation table with Denktash.

He later on stopped drinking so much and started the jokes manufacturing bussiness.

Here's the joke he manufactured about his change of Schools:

Klerides as a student talking to his headmaster:

-Sir, do you think that by expelling me from the school for one week will make me a better student?
-Yes my son, that's what I believe.
-Very good Sir, this means that if I expel my self for ever I will become a much much better student.

So klerides continues saying he abandoned his school and enrolled at the English school....

HA-HA-HA....

And all this at a time that high school was for the elitists, Klerides had the luxury to abandon schools and play it clever on top of it..

[DT.]

At the risk of being labelled a pedant: -

"Another A Flight crew flying that night was captained by Sgt Baden Fereday. Sgt Fereday was an experienced pilot with 15 operational flights recorded in his log book. Sgt Kelvin Shoesmith, an Australian, manned his rear turret. His wireless operator, Sgt Glafkos Clerides, was a Greek Cypriot who had been educated at an English Public School"

Clerides flew as wireless operator in a Wellington Bomber.
http://www.raf.mod.uk/rafmarham/aboutus/memory7.cfm

what english public school?

Just like the rest of us genius's he went to the English School in Nicosia.

Actually he was expelled from high school AND BECAUSE HE WAS RICH he managed to continue at the English school. There he learned how to talk with an accent, and pretend he gets confused when using lengthy Greek words. What an idiot!
During the 60s he was heavily addicted to alcohol, and drunk all the time even at the negotiation table with Denktash.

He later on stopped drinking so much and started the jokes manufacturing bussiness.

Here's the joke he manufactured about his change of Schools:

Klerides as a student talking to his headmaster:

-Sir, do you think that by expelling me from the school for one week will make me a better student?
-Yes my son, that's what I believe.
-Very good Sir, this means that if I expel my self for ever I will become a much much better student.

So klerides continues saying he abandoned his school and enrolled at the English school....

HA-HA-HA....

And all this at a time that high school was for the elitists, Klerides had the luxury to abandon schools and play it clever on top of it..

all the idiots were in my school....clerides, denktash...