DEEJAYKEG Posted September 15, 2013 Member ID: 1238 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 35 Topic Count: 1207 Topics Per Day: 0.22 Content Count: 6083 Content Per Day: 1.09 Reputation: 4985 Achievement Points: 50728 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 11 Joined: 03/12/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 11, 2024 Posted September 15, 2013 Today we remember the courage of those pilots from the UK and Commonwealth who defeated the Luftwaffe and so prevented the invasion of these islands by the Nazis when we stood alone against them. The average age of these pilots was 20. As Churchill said... In the first of the following newsreels, Canadian pilots get ready for action. baldie, dadda2 and Damage_inc- 3 Awards
Guest Sonovabich Posted September 15, 2013 Posted September 15, 2013 (edited) Hear hear, if it wasn't for those guys (Pilots from many nations too not just Britain) Britain would have fell, Germany would have taken North Africa too and had a backdoor to Persia/Irans oil and into Russia from that route too and no second front either, who knows what would have happened, they would have concentrated all their resources against the Soviet Union and we know how close they were to taking it anyway, the RAF was at breaking point and if Germany had kept up the attacks a few more weeks they would have probably won but we destroyed so many German planes that they broke first, that's why i always say the Spitfire was the plane that won WW2 because without it things would have been very different. Edited September 15, 2013 by Sonovabich JohnnyDos, baldie and dadda2 3
JohnnyDos Posted September 15, 2013 Member ID: 77 Group: Fallen Members Followers: 111 Topic Count: 1018 Topics Per Day: 0.18 Content Count: 7527 Content Per Day: 1.30 Reputation: 9175 Achievement Points: 69486 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 47 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 8, 2020 Posted September 15, 2013 Hear hear, if it wasn't for those guys (Pilots from many nations too not just Britain) Britain would have fell, Germany would have taken North Africa too and had a backdoor to Persia/Irans oil and into Russia from that route too and no second front either, who knows what would have happened, they would have concentrated all their resources against the Soviet Union and we know how close they were to taking it anyway, the RAF was at breaking point and if Germany had kept up the attacks a few more weeks they would have probably won but we destroyed so many German planes that they broke first, that's why i always say the Spitfire was the plane that won WW2 because without it things would have been very different. Just like my father told the story to me SOB. dadda2 and baldie 2
dadda2 Posted September 15, 2013 Member ID: 1566 Group: Fallen Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 1152 Topics Per Day: 0.21 Content Count: 7674 Content Per Day: 1.40 Reputation: 4167 Achievement Points: 68081 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 8 Joined: 07/11/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: February 5, 2020 Posted September 15, 2013 well said Winston Churchill
TBB Posted September 15, 2013 Member ID: 989 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 25 Topic Count: 293 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 21396 Content Per Day: 3.77 Reputation: 23075 Achievement Points: 153271 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 418 Joined: 01/07/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: 19 hours ago Birthday: 01/27/1946 Device: iPad Posted September 15, 2013 well said Winston Churchill +100 Awards
Damage_inc- Posted September 15, 2013 Member ID: 2048 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 294 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 6689 Content Per Day: 1.26 Reputation: 4709 Achievement Points: 48999 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 5 Joined: 12/15/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 29, 2023 Birthday: 05/30/1967 Posted September 15, 2013 an amazing acomplishment and a turning point in history .just incredible.who knows what may have changed after that if you hadnt suceded-thanks m8's DEEJAYKEG 1 Awards
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