Why is Gordon Cramer blocking my comments and other various matters of little consequence.
There have been many times I would have liked to post a comment on his blog and particularly now after reading his latest where he justifies his position that Bob Wake was in fact referring to Gordon Strapps and Olive Neill in his diary entry, not Charles Gordon Chaloner Olive.
Cramer insists that when a personage such as Wakes writes up service personnel he is required by certain protocols to include their rank and CGC Olive, being the active State Commander of the Air Training Corps and uniformed (?) commander in the RAAF Reserve should under the afore-mentioned protocols be accorded the same privileges.
Wake had a few choices here :
CGC Olive St. Cdr. ATC
or ..
CGC Olive U Cdr RAAF Rsve.
or ..
CHC Olive St. Cdr. ATC. (uniformed) Cdr RAAF Rsve.
You see, what I would have liked to ask Cramer is which one, in his opinion, would have been the most likely Wake would have used if in fact he was writing about CGC Olive.
But I’m not able to do so because he’s blocked me from asking questions on his site.
Two reasons I’m aware of that would necessitate a person blocking someone’s access to making comments would be (1) if he’s an abusive troll, or (2) the unpublished comments, whatever they may be, will be of no interest to either himself (Cramer) or his readers, some of whom might find this extremely patronising.
The Somerton Man .. 
And of course what begs the question is why Wake, if indeed he was referring to Strapps and Neill, did he not use their surnames?
But this is just another question he won’t allow me on his site…
And yet another question is if this protocol was uniformly followed, why didn’t my father (ex Squadron Leader) fail to observe it in his war diaries? Preferring to use nicknames instead of the more formal prefixes .. like Grouper for his Wing Commander, Gordon Steege.
I transcribed my father’s diarys and sent them to the Canberra War Museum, a task that took over four years and where they were welcomed as being the most detailed transcription of war records they had ever seen. They too made no mention of Cramer’s Protocol.
https://petebowes.com/2023/04/25/diary-of-a-ww2-fighter-pilot/
So you see, Gordon Cramer, this is a personal matter, and one far above your fanciful imagination.
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Rank protocols aside, civil courtesy would have included Mr. or Miss. and the appropriate use of surnames for Gordon and Olive had Lt. Col. Bob Wake intended making positive identification of those he desired to name as being communists.
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Mirror Mirror on the wall, who’s the biggest TROLL of all? Mr. Cramer is, without any doubt at all!
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Can’t argue with that, over the past years he has trolled me pretty savagely, not to mention spreading lies, one being that I had bought a rifle and was intent on shooting him.
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You’re not Robinson Crusoe Peteb. Just about every so called BS/TS breakthrough in the case has been perloined from other big thinkers likes of we erstwhile pre Webb stinkers. Comes to the biggest stinker of all, thanks to Jo, henceforth slick Nick Pilchard shall be known as Dingo Pelling. Reckon if the caps fits ya gotta wear the bastard. Right?
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That cap fits him like a glove ..
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‘A View From An Upstairs Winder’ A scholastic dissertation on Trolls Trollery, Causes & Effects; researched and authored by C. Gordon Cramer. That’s what our most humble pensman put together at short notice over Xmas; just to satisfy a long held promise to educate those of us lesser lights desiring on line freedom of expression without being tagged a TROLL such as he.
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If only you had known Peter Brokenshaft’s affiliations with Adelaide EYL Steve H, and and possible connection to fellow communists Gordon & Olive when Cramer first broke the news. We could be closer to the truth of their Somerton Man sighting that evening. By the way your humility Knows no bounds.
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Arrivals records by Clipper Racer N88951 and Clipper Australia N88952 into Sydney at that exact time destroyed
Yanks onboard on a mission
You’ve got to hand it to this lot in 1948, they sure knew how to cover their tracks every which way
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No. 1: Silly question but, I presume the departure records also destroyed?
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Correct me if I’m mistaken re Clipper records; can I presume it had something to do with sheet setting in the Sydney to Hobart yacht race. Its just been announced that the race was won on protest by a Chinese/Aust. syndicate N88952(?) whose female co skipper meant no harm by dobbing on the initial pronounced handicap winner N88951(?) for a minor unintended infraction.
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Nothing minor or unintended about it as they breached the sheeting sails regulations by using a pole to secure the spinnaker during the finish.
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N88951 N88952 are registrations of DC-4 aircraft. They likened their aircraft to clipper sailing ships which were designed for speed. Hence the names Clipper Racer and Clipper Australia
Anyway, something might turn up yet through arrival cards as to who arrived back into San Francisco from Sydney at that time and their occupation
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US also used a card system for arrivals. Sample:
https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/California,San_Francisco,_Airplane_Arrival_Card_Index-FamilySearch_Historical_Records#/media/File:California,_San_Francisco_Airplane_Arrival_Card_Index(14-1527)_Index_Card_DGS_100682131_69.jpg
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Lists of U.S. Citizens Arriving at San Francisco, 1930-1949|M1439, Roll 50 USAT Gen Mitchell – USN Diphda, 10 Sep 1948-19 Jan 1949
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Tatura? Wake & Augenson did numerous aerial surveys of the POW camps but I’m thinking there would be some time disparity re Parafields airshow of 1948, who knows?
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We know that Steve H has the decency to use quotations “… ” lots of them, when he plagiarises the work of others. C. Gordon Cramer doesn’t need to; everything he puts down in writing be of his his own inventive creativity, and all bull whatsmore.
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