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1 posted on 05/17/2020 4:03:49 PM PDT by bitt
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2 posted on 05/17/2020 4:04:01 PM PDT by bitt (Much of our culture is intended to traumatize us, as traumatized people are easily controlled)
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To: bitt

Well done a John.
Good health!


3 posted on 05/17/2020 4:09:09 PM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt
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To: bitt

Time marches on.


5 posted on 05/17/2020 4:34:21 PM PDT by fso301
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They saved Britain from invasion. If the Luftwaffe could have established air supremacy over the Channel and Southern England, Hitler would have launched the invasion, reasoning the Luftwaffe could have kept the Royal Navy at bay.


8 posted on 05/17/2020 4:42:37 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: bitt

Didn’t some Yanks fly for the Brits in the the Battle for Brittan? Seems I recall that in the old 1988 BBC mini series “Piece of Cake”


11 posted on 05/17/2020 4:47:12 PM PDT by DAC21
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He is one of the last vestiges of a world now gone.


12 posted on 05/17/2020 4:49:11 PM PDT by henkster ("We can always fool the foreigner" - Chinese Proverb)
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Time is going so rapidly. It only seemed a few years ago we were talking of the last survivors of WWI.


14 posted on 05/17/2020 4:56:45 PM PDT by mware (RETIRED)
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Back in the days when England routinely produced heroes...
RIP, Hero...

Something England will never see again as it stumbles into it's Islamic State future...

21 posted on 05/17/2020 6:51:52 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother...

Many respectful regards to these men.


25 posted on 05/17/2020 8:03:28 PM PDT by Redcitizen (Nobody needs a 10 round magazine. You need a 30 round magazine.)
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"Irishman is Now the Sole Survivor of 'The Few' "

The Pluck O' the Irish!

God bless him.

Leni

27 posted on 05/18/2020 1:56:54 PM PDT by MinuteGal (MAGA !!! MAGA !!! MAGA !!!)
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Wow, only 1 Battle of Britain vet left.


28 posted on 05/18/2020 5:30:04 PM PDT by Impy (I have no virtue to signal.)
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Every rule must have its exception, and I think we have us here a bona fide old, bold pilot.
31 posted on 05/18/2020 7:39:28 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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34 posted on 05/18/2020 9:52:00 PM PDT by Chgogal (Wuhan Virus, Chinese Virus, Kung Fu Virus - Wuhan Chinese Kung Fu Virus aka CCP virus.)
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