| taskforce58 | 24 May 2013 3:41 p.m. PST |
In 2005, an 83 year-old World War II pilot is surprised to see 16mm footage of his 1944 Spitfire crash for the first time. youtu.be/ie3SrjLlcUY |
| Dn Jackson | 24 May 2013 4:05 p.m. PST |
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| Pattus Magnus | 24 May 2013 4:14 p.m. PST |
I'm always glad when I hear a vet was alive to see stuff like that. Crazy to think of seeing on tape something you lived through! One of my great uncles flew bombers and didn't make it home, although a couple guys on his crew did survive the crash, and it ended up being mentioned in a documentary on the local news a couple years ago. Wierd feeling knowing a family member was involved, nobody in the family knew (or never talked about) the details. |
| Cincinnatus | 24 May 2013 4:49 p.m. PST |
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 Editor in Chief Bill   | 24 May 2013 5:41 p.m. PST |
Seriously cool.  |
| Mr Canuck | 24 May 2013 6:30 p.m. PST |
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| optional field | 24 May 2013 6:36 p.m. PST |
very cool. I guess the extra fuel tanks were enough to give the range to reach Berlin. |
 Dentatus  | 24 May 2013 8:17 p.m. PST |
Thank you. Very cool indeed. |
 John the OFM  | 24 May 2013 8:36 p.m. PST |
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 Saber6 | 24 May 2013 9:10 p.m. PST |
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| Monophagos | 25 May 2013 7:50 a.m. PST |
Excellent! Nice to hear someone who knew his stuff giving the Spitfire its due without misplaced chauvinism….. |
| Jabo 1944 | 25 May 2013 9:47 a.m. PST |
Thanks for posting, extremely interesting. |
| taskforce58 | 25 May 2013 10:23 a.m. PST |
I learned something new from that video too – PR Spitfires have no armored windscreen! |
| CPBelt | 25 May 2013 12:05 p.m. PST |
Very nice, but I agree with the posters at youtube. That narrator's voice and speech patterns are extremely annoying. |
| 79thPA | 26 May 2013 9:47 a.m. PST |
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| svsavory | 28 May 2013 12:27 p.m. PST |
Great little film. Thanks for the link. |
