An e-mail received which should be shared.

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From: < mailto:hjhagermann@hotmail.com - hjhagermann@hotmail.com >
To: < mailto:boats@bmpt.org.uk - boats@bmpt.org.uk >
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 3:32 PM
Subject: Enquiry from BMPT web site


> Name: Gary
> Address:
> Town:
> Postcode:
> Email: mailto:hjhagermann@hotmail.com - hjhagermann@hotmail.com
> Telephone:
> Enquiry: Hi Guys, not so much a query, as a letter of apreciation for the
> good work which you guys do. For a supposedly maritime race, we neglect
> our naval heritage.(As we seem to do with most other things historical, of
> a military nature. It is as though we are ashamed of it!) I am a former
> soldier myself, although my late Dad was in the RN 39 to 45 as a sonar
> operator, then called ASDIC. He loved seeing the MTBs in action when he
> was trining in Lowestoft and later in Scotland.He was on convoy escort. He
> saw some S Boats in the Azores at the war's end as they made their way
> back to the USA with US Navy prize crews and German Kriegsmarine engineers
> and specialists aboard. I have myself have an RAF radio set, of WW2
> vintage, (one of my hobbies) It is the R115N which as you no doubt know is
> the type was used aboard the RAF Air/Sea rescue launches. I remember
> seeing those in Poole in 1971 at the end of my Army service, and remember
> thinking what a great way to spend your day as
> I watched them going out sometimes.Thanks for letting an old war horse
> waffle on.( I am 60 now!)
> Keep up the good work, Best Regards, Gary
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