www.bbm.org.uk/ images/holmes-1b.jpg
The only pic I could find.
We're losing heros every day. At least he got a good news-obit in the Scotsman.
he worked as a journalist
"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."
Sir Winston Churchill
Wow! God bless him!
He later moved into photo-reconnaissance, taking pictures from 30,000ft over Germany of locations such as Berlin and Hitler’s hideout at Berchtesgaden.
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An Original Eye in the Sky :)
RIP Arly
"His wife, Anne, 61"
Wow....
His wife, Anne, 61,
A cradle robber, he was. :^)
RIP, Hero.
God bless such a heroic and valiant defender!
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.
www.bbm.org.uk/ images/holmes-1b.jpg
The only pic I could find.
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.'"
I saw that special recently and he was a remarkable man. Thank God that we had him and his kind.
Wow, Sounds like this Hero got a 65 year bonus life.
"Never were so many indebted to so few," as Churchill said.
Anybody else here watch the British produced TV series about the RAF, "Piece of Cake"?
I loved that program but oddly my in-laws, who lived through WWII, didn't like it.
Equally heroic, IMHO. Most of those planes were unarmed. The great French author and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupery died on one such mission.
I saw a documentary about this not long ago on the History Channel. A historian actually closed down the London streets and dug up the plane Sgt. Holmes was flying. They dug right under a busy intersection and found parts of the plane and engine. Sgt. Holmes was there for a ceremony when they found the pieces. It was very interesting.
Rest in Peace, Sgt. Holmes.
From the recent video documentary:
Ray Holmes is reunited with his Hawker Hurricane's control yoke, which he last held in his hands some 64 years ago.
Pretty neat archaeological dig - they used ground-penetrating radar gear to locate the remains of the aircraft (based on pictures which showed the original crash site). Too bad there was so little remaining of that Rolls-Royce Merlin.
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!! That's just ******* amazing! God rest this man's soul.
WOW! Just WOW!