Ginger say it isn't so!!

[StephenLawson]

Good afternoon Mr. & Mrs. America and all ships at sea... Flash from the European Continent...'Major Ginger reported MIA. Flying a Sopwith Camel for the first time the noted British hero took off for an AM patrol over the sailent two days a go and failed to return. This morning a German newspaper Der Tage Zeitungen ran a front page article with the following photo titled, '... British nerdowell brought down...'

["Junior"]

Good one Stephen

However there are scattered reports that Major Ginger has eloped with Section Officer Harvey and that the Camel with the big "G" was a cunning ruse :eek:

[StephenLawson]

Flash! The Picadilly Register headlines read; The Mad Major is Missing! News confirmed from the frontlines, forward observers report that Major Ginger fell in combat with a German two seater crew. Further proof was provided when another photo was dropped behind the lines yesterday from a Purple Fokker D.VII.

[Michael]

Originally posted by StephenLawson@Aug 17 2004, 11:54 AM
[b] News confirmed from the frontlines, forward observers report that Major Ginger fell in combat with a German two seater crew.

Too much S.R.D. among the forward observers.

British nerdowell

Better a British nerdowell than a German nerd (O well).

[Yeoman]

Ah Gentlemen I have the solution.The whole event was incorrectly reported by Mel Gibsons war corespondent grandfather.

Later editions of the Daily sketch have the following corrected caption-

"Four German flyers captured sneaking around British repair hanger"

Due to shortages of parts in the German airforce a new strategy of 'grab what you can boys' was thwarted by British groundcrew.It was reported that the haul included a new Blue cowling for a Mr Voss....

Major Ginger has been informed of the incident.

[StephenLawson]

Originally posted by Yeoman@Aug 17 2004, 02:38 PM
[b]'...Later editions of the Daily sketch have the following corrected caption- "Four German flyers captured sneaking around British repair hanger...'

Yeoman; Actually the Daily Sketch was the source of the confusion... It misreported the second story featured by Der Tage Zeitungen. It read, 'Four flyers (3 British and 1 French) captured sneaking around German repair hangar...' The Daily Sketch is notorious for such faux pauxs

[StephenLawson]

The French pilot insisted on being photographed separately.

[StephenLawson]

Sadly the Mad Major Ginger is still missing.

["Junior"]

Just goes to show you can't trust a thing you read in the papers these days

Great little dioramas Stephen! I love the one with the Dr.I (?) top plane, and the fabric peeling off. Heaps of atmosphere B)

Junior.

[Ginger.]

If I may interject at this juncture?
Major Ginger is currently engaged in a secret mission to the Greek islands which involves an in depth field testing of the local vino collapso.
It's nice to see that Aircraftsman Barking is on the ball in my absence, a scruffy a bunch of Purple Poofters as I ever did see that he's captured, red handed, vandalising Vert Gallant.
Keep up the good work chaps, now it's on with my mission.

ps we all know the Bloody Red Baron has an over active imagination and a prediliction toward fantasy, but, even by his standards them dioramas are excellent.