[Healeys] Film about an early Spitfire

[Bill Kollar]

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**Terrific Video about a Terrific Very Unassuming Gentleman.**
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**A Courageous member of the Greatest Generation !**
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On 4/12/2020 8:33 PM, i erbs wrote:
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> WW II Recon Pilot.
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>         This gentleman is why they called it the “Greatest Generation.”
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>                 *An 18 year-old just out of high school was trained to
>                 take pictures of damage done to German targets**by
>                 B-17s. He flew in a British Spitfire fitted with extra
>                 fuel tanks where the guns were. In other words, he
>                 flew over Germany unarmed.  This is probably one of
>                 the best WWII film clips out there. Stored for 61
>                 years in two suitcases of 16 mm home movies that were
>                 inherited by filmmaker William Lorton from his great
>                 uncle who served as a Flight Surgeon. Those suitcases
>                 contained 3 hours of war footage that included a
>                 compelling crash landing of a Spitfire in 1944*
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>                 *Filmed in a 2005 interview with the now 83 year old
>                 pilot and seeing the expression on his face when he
>                 realizes it is him in the cockpit, is something you
>                 won't soon forget.*
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>                 *At 18 years old, he was all alone, behind enemy
>                 lines, with no guns, no escort, and he gladly did it.*
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>                 *They just don't make them like that anymore. It was
>                 truly the greatest generation and we owe them so much.*
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>                 *Click this link:**American Spitfire Pilot in WWII
>                 <https://apc01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.youtube.com%252Fwatch_popup%253Fv%253Die3SrjLlcUY%2526sns%253Dem&data=02%257C01%257C%257C2c47a4149b3745959b5e08d7d0dba83b%257C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%257C1%257C0%257C637207514143667030&sdata=jlbgNNcnNUcGF8vW6bfGUpFoee8VtWAbz%252FJMnhcei2Y%253D&reserved=0>*
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> Ira Erbs
> Portland,OR
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