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Also, imediately after the war, it was the British Army that organised putting the Beetle back into production. |
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Jon Pertwee served as an officer aboard HMS Hood, adn was lucky enough to be on shore leave when she was sunk by the Bismark with only three survivors.
Denholm Elliot served with the RAF and was sot down during a bommbing mssion over Denmark. He saw out the last three years of the war in a POW camp in Silesia. Murray Walker drove a tank during WWII. Christopher Lee served as a Flight Lieutenant, as well as with Intelligence and Special Forces in the Western Desert, Malta, Sicily, Italy and Central Europe. |
Concorde had a system of baffles on its engines to slow down the air entering the engine to sub sonic speed as the engine wouldnt run properly otherwise
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DID. Such a shame they removed such a great aircrsft. |
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Interstingly Richard Todd plays Maj John Howard (who commanded the initial glider assult at Pegasus Bridge and heroically held the bridges afterwards) in the film "The Longest Day". I am unsure who plays Richard Todd in the film :D |
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saw a clip of it on tv!!! whether it was real who knows! |
Clark Gable flew with the 8th airforce on bombing missions over Germany.
Lucky to survive that one :shock: |
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i saw a nice motorbike yesterday that is all. carry on. |
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