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    Default WWII Spitfire Pilot Sees Film Of Himself For The 1st Time

    This is a great short film/documentary. The last part will tug at your heart. Awesome stuff.

    An 18-year-old just out of high school was trained to take pictures of damage done to German targets by B-17's. He flew in a British Spitfire fitted with extra fuel tanks where the guns had been. In other words, he flew over Germany unarmed...

    WWII American Spitfire Pilot

    This is probably one of the best WWII film clips out there. Stored for 61 years in two suitcases of 16mm 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.

    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 forget.

    At 18 yrs. old, he was all alone, behind enemy lines, with no guns, no escort, and he gladly did it.

    They just don't make them like that anymore. It was truly the greatest generation and we owe them so much.


    I'm posting it this way because it need to be watched in full screen.

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    That was pretty damn cool

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    The look on his face when he realized it was him was priceless.
    The Elites don't fear the tall nails, government possesses both the will and the means to crush those folks. What the Elites do fear (or should fear) are the quiet men and women, with low profiles, hard hearts, long memories, and detailed target folders for action as they choose.

    "I here repeat, & would willingly proclaim, my unmitigated hatred to Yankee rule—to all political, social and business connections with Yankees, & to the perfidious, malignant, & vile Yankee race."

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    That's awesome!

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    Wow!
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    Awesome. Thanks for sharing.


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    That was really awesome. WW2 has always intrigued me.
    "Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs.
    I am haunted by waters" Norman Maclean.

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    very cool
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    Spitfires sound like liberty and freedom when they go by.

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    Thats just pure awesome. Those were indeed men cut of the finest hardened leather.
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    Every 6 months or so, Mergie posts something that's actually worth following a link to. This is one.

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    Thanks for sharing that!

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    Pretty damned cool.

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