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| Tango01 | 07 May 2015 3:49 p.m. PST |
"As his final tribute to the RAF on the seventieth anniversary of the Battle of Britain, Beachcombing offers this remarkable photograph from 19 Squadron. 19 Squadron had fought over Dunkirk and spent the Battle of Britain in the front line at Duxford: the legless and incorrigible Douglas Bader was one of her pilots as was the legendary ‘grumpy' Unwin. 19 Squadron later undertook, inter alia, fighter sweeps on D-Day and would become a frontline British squadron in the Cold War, finally being disbanded in 1992. 19 Squadron's motto was ‘Possunt quia posse videntur' – ‘They can because they think they can'. It might reasonably do service as a title for this superb photograph by Stanley Devon. The ravaged twenty-three year old caught between life and death here is Squadron Leader Brian ‘Sandy' Lane – Beachcombing always forgets how young the British fighter pilots were – while on his right was Unwin, an old man at 27. The photograph was taken at Fowlmere in early September 1940 in one of the most critical phases of the Battle of Britain…"
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