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To: Homer_J_Simpson

Top right on page 6, the liberation of the “legless ace.” I remember when he died, in the 1980s iirc. My mother’s property manager, a former RAF pilot, told us about him.


8 posted on 04/19/2015 4:52:31 AM PDT by Tax-chick (I'm a radical feminist. Galatians 3:28)
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To: Tax-chick
Top right on page 6, the liberation of the “legless ace.”

Douglas Bader got a bit of coverage on these threads back in 1940 during the Battle of Britain. He was a bit of a thorn in Marshal Dowding's side. I posted excerpts from "With Wings Like Eagles: The Untold Story of the Battle of Britain," by Michael Korda. It is a good account of the BoB.

10 posted on 04/19/2015 5:29:18 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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