[GreenKeys] 50 years where were you? What was truth what was fiction??? how the Cuban missil

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Fri Dec 19 11:25:45 EST 2014


On Fri, 19 Dec 2014, Jim Backus wrote:

> I was at Grammar school in Lincolnshire England aged 16. Lincolnshire is 
> known as bomber county because of the number of WW2 air force bases 
> mostly used by bombers.

My parents grew up during the Battle of Britain; enough said...

> For several days it seemed that everything the RAF had that could fly 
> was in the air.

Trust me, they did.  They even had ancient biplanes, such as the Fairey 
Swordfish torpedo bomber, taking on Hitler's mightiest battleships.

I think we won that round.

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