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Re: If you could travel back in time to ONE historic event.....
Posted by TonyD on Mon Apr 15, 2002 05:11:06 PM
In reply top Re: If you could travel back in time to ONE historic event..... posted by Tom on Mon Apr 15, 2002 04:45:11 PM
Tom
I cannot believe we share one of the same dreams!!...spooky or what...I was about to say the Dornier crashing on Victoria (15 Sept 1940)! The aircraft was attacked by several pilots not least Ray Holmes and Sgt Hubacek (who was shot down later that day - I have the stick from his plane).
Another would be Percy Burton's tree top chase of a 110, also in the Battle of Britain, another would be (to observe) and shout at the idiot LDV who shot Battle of Britain hero and sole VC winner J B Nicolson VC in the buttocks as he drifted helplessly to earth on his chute....or Battle of Hastings when poor old King Harold copped one, or viewing the Doolittle Raiders taking off, or the brave RAF Hurricane pilots landing on HMS Glorious (their first ever deck landing!) only for her to be sunk by a U boat....oh Karen too many to just pick one!!!
: I've always dreampt of taking the place of Ray Holmes on t
: he day that he chopped the tail from a Dornier over London
: , the story has always inspired me in a big way, have a lo
: ok here for the full story:
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: http://www.s-a-m.freeserve.co.uk/The%20Battle%20of%20Brita
: in.htm
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: Tom ;)
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