> From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date: Sun, 9 May 2010 09:21:23 +0100 > Subject: Re: [INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ] True story of False Point > > Hello Harshawardhan, > > There is quite a bit on the web about other Indian lighthouses. > > I found the following site a few months ago while looking for the history of > Tellicherry Lighthouse. > > > http://www.pharology.eu/Lighthouses/Asia/early_indian_lighthouses.htm > > Here's a site about lighthouses in Orissa and Bengal (with lots of photos) > > http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/lighthouse/inde.htm > > And here's about Kerala. > > http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/lighthouse/indsw.htm > > Regards > > Nick Balmer > > Hi Nick, After the passing of sixty four years ,thanks to you and ash, I have learned the name of the lighthouse that we buzzed in a Liberator after leaving the airfield at Cuttack to do a visual spotting run down to Kajamalai (TRICHINOPOLY) Have fond memories of changing gas tanks overnight and then running the gauntlet between the lines of "BIG" black monkies sitting on the top of old buildings which lned the pathway. Regards .Les (200 Sqdn RAF)

Hello Les, As a great fan of Liberators, and all things to do with SEAC, it gives me great pleasure to learn that I have in some small way given something back. It must have been very difficult at times, I would image to have worked out where you were, especially given the weather and the extreme ranges you were flying at. I have driven on compass bearings and dead reckoning into the Empty Quarter, and I know just how pleased I was when I found myself coming back to a landmark. It must have been an even greater relief you guys. Thanks. Regards Nick Balmer