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  • barretcreek
    Senior Member
    • Sep 2013
    • 6065

    #1

    RIP

    Just as the Battle of Britain was getting underway in August 1940, Winston Churchill paid tribute in the House of Commons to the fighter pilots of the


    The Few by Alex Kershaw. About the handful of Americans who flew in the RAF before Pearl Harbor.
    Last edited by barretcreek; 02-14-2020, 02:24.
  • Sunray
    Senior Member
    • Sep 2009
    • 3251

    #2
    "...handful of Americans..." More than a handful. 244 Americans served with the 3 RAF Eagle Squadrons. All 3 were overhead at Dieppe.
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    • dryheat
      Senior Member
      • Sep 2009
      • 10587

      #3
      Bless them. If you have had the occasion to meet an old man that was in WWI. I was a young man carrying mail. Up and down the rural streets. There was this old man sitting in the front yard picking the weeds. I saw him day after day. One day; I stopped by and his granddaughter stepped out. She thanked me for spending some time with her grandfather. The old man was about blind. He spent his time picking weeds from the lawn.
      His granddaughter told me that he was a photographer in the war. That would be WWI. A memory I'll keep.
      Last edited by dryheat; 02-15-2020, 11:05.
      If I should die before I wake...great,a little more sleep.

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