Some more info here, including the fact Churchill learned to fly in 1913 -
Posted on 07/08/2012 6:16:40 PM PDT by Dysart
Flight Officer Ron Buck kept back his own pictures from the trip that was later described as the 'Most Daring Flight of the Whole War.'
Churchill had crossed the Atlantic by ship in order to lobby President Roosevelt, but rashly decided to fly home from Bermuda.
With some of his most senior colleagues, the Prime Minister embarked on what was to become a perilous 18 hours flight.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I can tell by the control wheel that it is indeed a B-24 or the transport version called a c-87.I stand corrected.The control wheel looks similar to the B-24 but I am wrong it is a Boeing flying boat.
Yes indeed, a risk taker and a real man. He drank like a fish, smoked like a chimney, ate what he wanted when he wanted, was in all manner of death defying situations, and lived to be 91. Well done Mr. Churchill!
I’m getting pretty old and have read every book written by or about Churchill that I can find, including the superb Last Lion books by Wm. Manchester. I wish he, Churchill, had written more. He is one of my heros. The other is Ronald Reagan (renewed my Navy after the disaster that was Carter).
Everyone should read Churchill’s History of WWII. He said that history would treat him well, because he was going to write it. We will never again see his equal.
Churchill was certainly a character.
Don’t forget he was 1/2 American and his Mother was 1/8 American Indian making him far more native American than Ward Churchill.
Some more info here, including the fact Churchill learned to fly in 1913 -
A man with definite class and b@!!$ compared to that pansy in the W.H.
Yours the same aircraft as in the Mail article pictures - registration G-AGCA
That's why Ought-Bama had to return the bust of Churchill to the Brits. He couldn't stand being glared at by his superior.
Thanks,
Sir Winston is one of my heroes & now that I’m retired I will find time to read his histories of Western Civilization. Admire his personal style too, he ignored his doctors’ scoldings & lived to a ripe old age (if I live another 28 years I’ll equal his record).
Didn’t know `Winnie’ was an aficionado of the Boeing 314 Clipper; read all about that model as a kid & not one has survived. One magnificent aircraft & one magnificent man, both belong to another time when giants still walked the Earth.
Indeed, well said! The decline is steepening, but one has to believe there is yet hope.
Why hasn't he fired the White House janitor.
In the second photo, he looks like Arnold Palmer!
IIRC Sir Winston retired each night of the war with a bottle of brandy and a cigar.
I must assure you that neither brandy nor whiskey (Scotch) were in those glasses. A man such as Churchill would never drink good whiskey nor Brandy from a water glass!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If it were in the evening I would be most surprised if it were not good brandy or whiskey. However it would be in a brandy glass or a whiskey glass. Never would it be a glass for water!!!
If you haven’t seen it already, The Gathering Storm, with Albert Finney as Churchill is one of the best movies I’ve seen in the past few years.
Interesting story. Thanks for posting.
http://taylorempireairways.com/2010/03/pm-churchill-flying-boac-b314/
What? A six volume history of the Second World War, four volumes of his biography of Marlborough, four volumes of A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, the great "While England Slept", "The River War", over 30 other books, dozens of newspaper and magazine articles and hundreds of speeches, a Nobel Prize in literature, and you dare demand more of the poor man? You're mad, fellow. Not since Julius Caesar has a world leader been such a prolific and accomplished writer, and I doubt we will ever see his like again.
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