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VE Day: 92-year-old Second World War veteran flies Spitfire for first time in 70 years
The Independent ^ | May 12, 2015 | Heather Saul

Posted on 05/12/2015 3:13:27 AM PDT by Islander7

Link only due to copyright.

WWII vet flies Spitefire for first time in 70 years

(Excerpt) Read more at freerepublic.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Education; History; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: history; raf; spitfire; veteran; war; worldwareleven; wwii
There's a video at the link.
1 posted on 05/12/2015 3:13:27 AM PDT by Islander7
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To: Islander7

Cool!

The Greatest Generation saves the World and then we let it go to $&!T on our watch.


2 posted on 05/12/2015 3:45:44 AM PDT by mabarker1 (congress, The Opposite of Progress.)
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To: Islander7

Was a bit suprised to see that it was a woman.

Remember a story of a group of Americans catching

a bunch of 109`s and shot them all down.It was

women ferrying them to the front.


3 posted on 05/12/2015 7:21:15 AM PDT by Harold Shea
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To: mabarker1
The Greatest Generation saves the World and then we let it go to $&!T on our watch.

I was too young to vote for kennedy and johnson. The greatest generation saved the world and then THEY let it go to $&!T on THEIR watch.

4 posted on 05/12/2015 7:26:45 AM PDT by bankwalker (In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.)
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To: Islander7

Man she was a good looking lady back in World War II.

What a classy generation with good taste all around.

What happened to Great Britain?

Good article and thanks for posting!


5 posted on 05/12/2015 7:32:12 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: bankwalker; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Wow, well put! They came out of the war conservatives who voted Democrat; those just a little younger grew up with no memory of any POTUS but FDR. Growing up in the ‘50s and ‘60s, around here, no matter how much they complained (the 1968 and 1972 Demwit conventions being prime examples), they voted straight-ticket Demwit.


6 posted on 05/12/2015 11:07:14 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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