<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:"courier new",courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;font-size:24px"><div><p><span style="font-size:24pt;color:black">WW II Recon Pilot.</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black"></span></p></div></div><div style="font-family:"courier new",courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;font-size:24px"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"></span></p></div></div></div><div><div><div><p><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"></span></p></div><div><div><div><blockquote style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><div id="gmail-m_-2761490958573350887ydp93f1477fyiv2682129835m_6673344836099325545ox-d4bf488ee2-yiv3881926533m_-625259890786442658yiv6504030183"><div><div><blockquote style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><div><p><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">This gentleman is why they called it the “Greatest Generation.”</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"></span></p></div><div><div><blockquote style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div id="gmail-m_-2761490958573350887ydp93f1477fyiv2682129835m_6673344836099325545ox-d4bf488ee2-yiv3881926533m_-625259890786442658yiv6504030183m_3711813290641660472ydpf6735f97yahoo_quoted_6363667458"><div><div id="gmail-m_-2761490958573350887ydp93f1477fyiv2682129835m_6673344836099325545ox-d4bf488ee2-yiv3881926533m_-625259890786442658yiv6504030183m_3711813290641660472ydpf6735f97yiv5114314152"><div><div><p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,40,42)"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"></span></p></div><blockquote style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,40,42)"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"></span></p></div><div><div><p style="background-repeat:repeat;background-image:none;background-size:auto"><strong><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,40,42)">An 18 year-old just out of high school was trained to take pictures of damage done to German targets</span></strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,40,42)"> <strong>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</strong></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"></span></p></div></div><div><div><p style="background-repeat:repeat;background-image:none;background-size:auto"><strong><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,40,42)">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.</span></strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"></span></p></div></div><div><div><p style="background-repeat:repeat;background-image:none;background-size:auto"><strong><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,40,42)">At 18 years old, he was all alone, behind enemy lines, with no guns, no escort, and he gladly did it.</span></strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"></span></p></div></div><div><div><p style="background-repeat:repeat;background-image:none;background-size:auto"><strong><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,40,42)">They just don't make them like that anymore. It was truly the greatest generation and we owe them so much.</span></strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"></span></p></div></div><div><p style="background-repeat:repeat;background-image:none;background-size:auto"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,40,42)">                                                           </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"></span></p></div><div><div><p style="background-repeat:repeat;background-image:none;background-size:auto"><strong><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,40,42)">Click this link:</span></strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-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