PEGASUS The Journal of Airborne Forces

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  1. JimHerriot

    JimHerriot Ready for Anything

    Extracts from editions past. Some will make you smile, some will make you cry.
    Always remember, never forget.
     
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  2. JimHerriot

    JimHerriot Ready for Anything

    From Volume II Number 4, January 1948
     

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  3. JimHerriot

    JimHerriot Ready for Anything

    From Volume II Number 3, October 1947
     

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  4. JimHerriot

    JimHerriot Ready for Anything

    From Volume III Number 2, July 1948
     

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  5. JimHerriot

    JimHerriot Ready for Anything

    From Volume III Number 3, October 1948
     

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  6. JimHerriot

    JimHerriot Ready for Anything

    From Volume III Number 4, January 1949
     

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  7. Alex1975uk

    Alex1975uk Well-Known Member

    Are these personal collection or are they available to view anywhere?

    Alex.
     
  8. OtwayInNormandy

    OtwayInNormandy Lt. Col. T.B.H. Otway

    Thanks Jim, this is fantastic. Love the bit about my grandfather!

    Any chance you could email the originals to admin@9thparabattalion.com? Would love to put some snippets on the Reunion Club history page.
     
  9. JimHerriot

    JimHerriot Ready for Anything

    Hello Alex, the covers and pages are scans from some of the editions of Pegasus that I have.
    I've posted them up today by way of seeing that if the interest is there I will readily scan them in their entirety and post them up here. I hope folks agree that they deserve to be seen. Making the time to do the necessary is the only stumbling block at present, but I will hopefully have complete versions up on this thread within the next few weeks.
     
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  10. JimHerriot

    JimHerriot Ready for Anything

    Readily! As per my response to Alex1975uk above, as soon as I have complete editions scanned I'll post them up here and will happily e-mail them to you too (going forward that may have to be in pdf format though, hope that will suffice).
     
  11. OtwayInNormandy

    OtwayInNormandy Lt. Col. T.B.H. Otway

    Smashing, that would be fantastic. I'm happy to credit you on the site and a PDF will be excellent.
     
  12. Alex1975uk

    Alex1975uk Well-Known Member

    Sounds good to me, how many editions do you have? I find it fascinating seeing the requests to get in touch section, wonder how many did get back in touch with old comrades.

    Alex.
     
  13. JimHerriot

    JimHerriot Ready for Anything

    Thank you, you are too kind, but credit is not necessary for me. Helping to keep alive the names that appear within the pages of Pegasus is reward enough, especially your grandfather's and his contempories of that great generation.

    I guess (hope!) the attached has pride of place with you (as does the edition I am custodian of has with me)
     

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  14. OtwayInNormandy

    OtwayInNormandy Lt. Col. T.B.H. Otway

    Funnily enough I've never had a copy until this afternoon, when I was going through some of my father's things and was given his old copy (that was in turn given to him by his father, Terence Otway). So yes, now I have it!
     
  15. JimHerriot

    JimHerriot Ready for Anything

    I am privileged to have sixteen of the early Pegasus journals, dating from April 1946 (Volume I Number 1) to June 1950 (Volume V Number 2)
    I hope that more of the get-in-touch requests succeeded than were unsuccessful too.
     
  16. JimHerriot

    JimHerriot Ready for Anything

    Great stuff. The edition I have is the Imperial War Museum 1990 reprint that was made possible by your grandfather as part of the 50th Anniversary of the formation of British Airborne Forces (it is most definitely a prized possesion)
     
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  17. Dave L

    Dave L Junior Member

    The Pegasus Journals are available (at a price) to view on the Paradata website
     
  18. JimHerriot

    JimHerriot Ready for Anything

    Dave, thanks very much for bringing this to my attention, it is very much appreciated, and I do not want to tread on anyone's toes so to speak ( given that the funds the Paradata website raise would be put back in to it's upkeep and the PRA).
    I'll initially keep any parts I post up here to the odd page or two that may be of special interest to members of this forum.
    Again, thanks for letting me know.
     
  19. JimHerriot

    JimHerriot Ready for Anything

    Please see the info from Dave above, in light of which I won't be posting any complete issues of the Pegasus Journal that I own here out of respect to Paradata.
    Profuse apologies for any disappointment caused.
     
  20. stolpi

    stolpi Well-Known Member

    Jim - is there anything on 6th AB Div in the Ardennes Dec 44/ Jan 45 in the Journals?
     

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