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Excellent! Thanks Ira.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/12/2020 5:33 PM, i erbs wrote:<br>
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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
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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
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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
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18 years old,
he was all
alone, behind
enemy lines,
with no guns,
no escort, and
he gladly did
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just don't
make them like
that anymore.
It was truly
the greatest
generation and
we owe them so
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