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My Grandfather faught Romel in Africa, And Yes I speak German voluntarily also. Lest you forget that the Canadians and Australians, and almost every other English speaking nation payed for all of our freedom.
As a member of the Royal British Legion, my friend, I am unlikely to forget...
My wife's uncle was a Lt Colonel in the New Brunswicks of Canada, stationed locally here and we have a military cemetery full of the fallen of that nation, from two wars, five miles from our home.
My mother, who ran a Royal Air Force kitchen, fed some of the pilots from Poland, Czechoslovakia and elsewhere who took to the skies over England to fight off the Luftwaffe in 1940.
This is Acting Pilot Officer Billy Fiske, from Brooklyn NY, the first American RAF pilot to be killed, in August 1940:
We mustn't forget the brave Yanks who, ahead of their own country's conflict with the enemy, came over to the UK and signed up with the RAF as RAF pilots. Whilst we finally managed to repay the monetary debt owed to the USA, in 2006, we cannot repay the debt of blood.