Posted on 04/08/2020 10:29:45 AM PDT by PeteePie
Full Title: WWII warbirds brought to life: The British and American aircraft and hero pilots that helped to defeat Nazi Germany - and the Luftwaffe planes that tried to stop them
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Squadron Leader: Top hole. Bally Jerry pranged his kite right in the how’s your father. Hairy blighter, dicky-birdied, feathered back on his Sammy, took a waspy, flipped over on his Betty Harper’s and caught his can in the Bertie.
Bovril: Er, I’m afraid I don’t quite follow you, squadron leader.
Squadron Leader: It’s perfectly ordinary banter, Squiffy. Bally Jerry ... pranged his kite right in the how’s yer father ... hairy blighter, dicky-birdied, feathered back on his Sammy, took a waspy, flipped over on his Betty Harper’s and caught his can in the Bertie.
Bovril: No, I’m just not understanding banter at all well today. Give us it slower.
Squadron Leader: Banter’s not the same if you say it slower, Squiffy.
I am reminded of this WWII hero:
Ping
As long as run and hide were more important than fight.
;-)
My first reaction as well.
Damned inconvenient those Poles helping to win the BoB.
Didn’t even get to march in the Victory Parade because Stalin said so.
A friend of mine a few years back was restoring a FW-190?? he bought out of Denmark or Norway.
Millions $$ in the resto. He is a perfectionist and money is no object.
I'm not sure who gets more credit for bravery (or lunacy): the German who did it first or the American who could have gone around the tower in pursuit but didn't.
You do know that they did a LOT of bombing runs, including dropping 4000 lb bombs on Berlin. 170 missions over Berlin alone!
They also were key to the roof-top level attack on the Shellhus, used as Gestapo headquarters in the city centre. It was used for the storage of dossiers and the torture of Danish citizens during interrogations. The Danish Resistance had long asked the British to conduct a raid against the site.
The RAF initially turned down the request as too risky, due to the location in a crowded city centre and the need for low-level bombing.
Only the Mosquito made the raid possible.
As it was, the raid was so fast and so close to the ground that one Mosquito clipped a wing on a lamppost and took out a school house, with disastrous results.
The RAF later tried to apologize, the Danes would have none of it, the destruction of the Gestapo headquarters was so important to the Danes, that the loss of the school, 86 of their own children and 18 adults (mostly nuns) was seen as a small and unavoidable price to pay. Apology not accepted, to do so would be to say the British had done something needing an apology!
Totally aware.
Just saying the Mosquito wasn’t a cage fighter (weak but fast plywood chin)
Sounds like a really good read but the price tag, $45? Ouch, man. Sounds a little steep donchathink?
Bunch of monkeys on the ceiling, sir! Grab your _____ (unknown) and let’s get the bacon delivered!
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3v9z74
(I couldn’t quite make out that banter!)
Great video - guy flying a Mosquito in WWII (beginning)
Trying to find the video. Guy runs into a German who accidentally left his lights on at night.
I thought he was in a Mosquito but danged if I can find the video at the moment.
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