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Unsung teen hero who helped end the Second World War honoured
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| March 15, 2024
| Telegraph reporters
Posted on 03/17/2024 11:28:58 AM PDT by beaversmom
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To: beaversmom
My hat is off to a very brave young man.
To: beaversmom
Huh? Wait a minute now. You mean he’s not black?
To: beaversmom
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posted on
03/17/2024 11:40:40 AM PDT
by
Governor Dinwiddie
(LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
To: beaversmom
They just don't make "teens" like they used to …
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posted on
03/17/2024 11:41:37 AM PDT
by
Governor Dinwiddie
(LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
To: beaversmom
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posted on
03/17/2024 11:43:05 AM PDT
by
linMcHlp
To: beaversmom
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posted on
03/17/2024 11:43:45 AM PDT
by
Chode
(there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
To: sunny bonobo
#3:
"Huh? Wait a minute now. You mean he’s not black?" Patience. Just wait a year or two.
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posted on
03/17/2024 11:54:18 AM PDT
by
Governor Dinwiddie
(LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
To: sunny bonobo
Wait for the movie by Dizzyland, he’ll be a black LGBQ tran.
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posted on
03/17/2024 11:59:41 AM PDT
by
SkyDancer
(~A Bizjet Is Nothing But An Executive Mailing Tube ~)
To: SkyDancer
Hollywood already made a movie and made Matthew McConaughey and the Americans the heroes. England was not happy about that.
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posted on
03/17/2024 12:03:58 PM PDT
by
x
To: beaversmom
Thomas was awarded the George Medal in 1945 but died in a house fire before he could receive the honour. survived a sinking German U-boat, but died in a common house fire at the age of 18
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posted on
03/17/2024 12:12:50 PM PDT
by
PGR88
To: linMcHlp
"..I am seeing double.."Sometimes I think they're just in such a hurry to get "the scoop" they can't be bothered to "Preview" it. 🙄😂
That aside. Great story.
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posted on
03/17/2024 12:22:55 PM PDT
by
CopperTop
(Outside the wire it's just us chickens. Dig?)
To: PGR88
Tommy Brown himself sadly died in 1945 in another act of heroism, trying to save his youngest sisters from their burning home.
Source: The Guardian
You will find it in the 1st paragraph following this picture:
Tommy's GM and medals are now safely in the North East, as his surviving brothers and sisters generously donated them to the NAAFI, whose headquarters are in Darlington. Tommy Brown himself sadly died in 1945 in another act of heroism, trying to save his youngest sisters from their burning home.
To: beaversmom
Quite a fifteen-year-old. Bravo young man!
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posted on
03/17/2024 12:41:09 PM PDT
by
Rummyfan
(In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.c)
To: beaversmom
October 1942.
1942 was a horrid year of losses in the Battle of the Atlantic.
Thanks in large part to this brave lad, Doenitz had to recall all U-boats from the north Atlantic in May 43.
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posted on
03/17/2024 12:54:21 PM PDT
by
Jacquerie
(ArticleVBlog.com)
To: Jacquerie
Wow. Just think of that !
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posted on
03/17/2024 1:05:28 PM PDT
by
Steely Tom
([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
To: linMcHlp
(I am seeing double)
Nonsense.
Everything is just fine.
(I am seeing double)
Nonsense.
Everything is just fine.
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posted on
03/17/2024 1:12:28 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
To: sunny bonobo
He was a black lesbian transgender whose pronouns were “they” and “them”...
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posted on
03/17/2024 1:42:34 PM PDT
by
kiryandil
(what Krynky doink?)
To: CopperTop
Preview? Ain’t nobody got time for that.
To: beaversmom
This story is part of the myth the British concocted to cover the fact that Enigma system had already been broken by the Poles before the war started. Bletchley Park did little more than lay the icing on the cake and take credit for baking it.
A fairly complete account is found in "Last Hope Island" by Lynne Olson, pub. 2017 Random House.
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