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Battle of Britain Hero Dies
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Posted on 06/28/2005 12:31:35 PM PDT by scotslad
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posted on
06/28/2005 12:31:37 PM PDT
by
scotslad
To: scotslad
We're losing heros every day. At least he got a good news-obit in the Scotsman.
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posted on
06/28/2005 12:33:10 PM PDT
by
SittinYonder
(Tancredo and I wanna know what you believe)
To: scotslad
There was a time when jornalists were heros.
he worked as a journalist
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posted on
06/28/2005 12:35:37 PM PDT
by
DManA
To: scotslad
"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."
Sir Winston Churchill
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posted on
06/28/2005 12:38:38 PM PDT
by
ncountylee
(Dead terrorists smell like victory)
To: scotslad
So the pilot from 504 Squadron used his Hurricane to slice through the tail of the intruder. He then parachuted to safety, while his plane crashed into Buckingham Palace Road and the German bomber plunged into part of Victoria station. Wow! God bless him!
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posted on
06/28/2005 12:40:04 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(Benedicere cor tuo! Quomodo cogis comas tuas sic videri?)
To: scotslad
He later moved into photo-reconnaissance, taking pictures from 30,000ft over Germany of locations such as Berlin and Hitlers hideout at Berchtesgaden.
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An Original Eye in the Sky :)
RIP Arly
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posted on
06/28/2005 12:40:24 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... "To remain silent when they should protest makes cowards of men." -- THOMAS JEFFERSON)
To: scotslad
"His wife, Anne, 61"
Wow....
oops, not Arly..
RIP Arty
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posted on
06/28/2005 12:42:44 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... "To remain silent when they should protest makes cowards of men." -- THOMAS JEFFERSON)
To: scotslad
A Second World War fighter pilot who saved Buckingham Palace from a direct hit has died at the age of 90, it was announced today...His wife, Anne, 61, described her husband as awe-inspiring and said he would be sadly missed.
Now that's what I'm talkin' about.
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posted on
06/28/2005 12:42:47 PM PDT
by
dsmatuska
To: scotslad
A Second World War fighter pilot who saved Buckingham Palace from a direct hit has died at the age of 90,His wife, Anne, 61,
A cradle robber, he was. :^)
RIP, Hero.
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posted on
06/28/2005 12:43:38 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
("Canada is the answer to a question that nobody bothered to ask." --Stand W)
To: HereInTheHeartland
I notice that, too. Fighter pilots....
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posted on
06/28/2005 12:44:19 PM PDT
by
r9etb
To: scotslad
God bless such a heroic and valiant defender!
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posted on
06/28/2005 12:44:28 PM PDT
by
TChris
("You tweachewous miscweant!" -- Elmer Fudd)
To: HereInTheHeartland
Obvious not completely out of ammo
To: scotslad
His wife, Anne, 61, The difference between Christian warriors and muslim ones is we get our digs in and this world so that we can live a pure life afterwards. They bugger each other down here, and pray that some day that might have sex with a woman after they die.
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posted on
06/28/2005 12:45:20 PM PDT
by
Rodney King
(No, we can't all just get along.)
To: scotslad
www.bbm.org.uk/ images/holmes-1b.jpg
The only pic I could find.
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posted on
06/28/2005 12:48:36 PM PDT
by
jrushing
(Democrats=National Socialist Workers Party)
To: ncountylee
This is still my favorite WWII cartoon.
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posted on
06/28/2005 12:49:01 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Congratulations Longhorns.)
To: scotslad
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2002/queen.mum/stories/feature.war/
The late "Queen Mum" on the subject:
"While surveying the damage she famously said: 'I'm glad we have been bombed; I feel I can look the East End in the face.'
"She had resisted calls for herself and her two teen-age daughters, Elizabeth and Margaret, to flee London for the safety of North America.
"'The children will not leave unless I do,' various sources have reported her as saying. 'I shall not leave unless their father does, and the king will not leave the country in any circumstances whatever.'"
To: scotslad
I saw that special recently and he was a remarkable man. Thank God that we had him and his kind.
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posted on
06/28/2005 1:02:35 PM PDT
by
Redleg Duke
(Getting old sucks, but it is the only viable option!)
To: SittinYonder
Compare "Arty" with the old tart on a nearby obit thread who sold England out as a spy for the Russians.
Doubt she'll be going to the same place as this hero.
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posted on
06/28/2005 1:07:00 PM PDT
by
paddles
To: paddles
My exact same thought when I read the story about her. I thought it was funny that the two stories were posted one right after the other.
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posted on
06/28/2005 1:12:19 PM PDT
by
SittinYonder
(Tancredo and I wanna know what you believe)
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