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03-06-2013, 10:21 AM | #1 |
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centaur32, aka Jim Dedman, died of a heart attack in Australia two weeks ago. Jim flew three tours in Vietnam as a UH-1 helicopter pilot (gunships mainly) before leaving the service in 1969. He ended up in Iran training their pilots to fly American helicopters, before then heading on to Australia where he worked as a test pilot for a firm selling demilitarized Communist-bloc helicopters to various Southeast Asian countries before retiring again.
I met Jim here on this forum and enjoyed swapping and collecting Soviet patches with him. His wife emailed me of his untimely death. Jim was a good and extremely generous man and now collecting the patches just doesn't have the same luster. Anyhow, I wanted to pass on the news. |
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03-06-2013, 10:42 AM | #2 |
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Re: Sad News
Thanks for informing us of the unfortunate news. He was an enjoyable member and I sent a few patches his way. Rest in peace, Jim.
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03-06-2013, 02:29 PM | #3 |
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Re: Sad News
This is horrible. I am sorry to hear of this sad news.
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03-06-2013, 03:59 PM | #4 |
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Re: Sad News
RIP Jim, sad news
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04-06-2013, 12:47 AM | #5 |
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Been away a while and just seen this - very sad news! Jim and often met at the local militaria shows. I shall miss him.
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04-06-2013, 03:39 AM | #6 |
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Though I never was in touch with him, he is said to be a good person, and such a loss is not only a loss for our society, but for the whole world.
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04-06-2013, 08:55 PM | #7 |
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Jim and I made some business in the past and it was a pleasure dealing with him. I´m very sorry to hear about this.
May he rest in peace.
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I am in the process of helping Jim's widow, Natalia, to dispose of his collection and came across some photos that I thought I would share with the forum.
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09-19-2013, 10:26 AM | #9 |
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Gents,
Although not active on this forum for several years, I regret to inform you that forum member "Rick Research" was tragically killed in an automobile accident in his hometown on September 17th. Regards, slava1stclass |
09-19-2013, 01:30 PM | #10 |
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thank you for this really sad news. Rick Research has been a really prominent member of the community for several years; a great researcher, never imbued with its knowledge, a great loss!
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