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#3219877 - 02/27/11 06:31 PM BBC reporter Charles Gardner comments live on a dogfight over the Channel.
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MedinaES Member Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 1,126 Destination Unknown...	http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/battleofbritain/11431.shtml Via http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=18939

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#3219883 - 02/27/11 06:44 PM Re: BBC reporter Charles Gardner comments live on a dogfight over the Channel. [Re: MedinaES]
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MedinaES Member Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 1,126 Destination Unknown...	A pilot vividly recounts his experience of being shot down over the North Sea. http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/battleofbritain/11424.shtml A Fine Blue Day \| James 'Ginger' Lacey http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/battleofbritain/11418.shtml Last edited by jt_medina; 02/27/11 07:12 PM.

#3219937 - 02/27/11 08:04 PM Re: BBC reporter Charles Gardner comments live on a dogfight over the Channel. [Re: MedinaES]
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Old Dux Hotshot Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 5,681 Derbyshire	Believe it or not, many people protested about the Channel battle account claiming it was too dramatic and vulgar, being delivered like a sporting commentary! It would take more Luftwaffe bombs to waken such people to the realities of modern warfare and dispel notions of a chivalrous, village green, 'cricket game' mentality. 'Find your enemy and shoot him down - everything else is unimportant.' Manfred von Richtofen ---------------------------

#3220249 - 02/28/11 08:08 AM Re: BBC reporter Charles Gardner comments live on a dogfight over the Channel. [Re: MedinaES]
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HeinKill Senior Member Joined: May 2006 Posts: 3,744 Cloud based	I loved that old radio broadcast. So much I cut a video to accompany it. It actually caused a lot of controversy at the time because thousands of BBC listeners complained that it made war sound like a sport. H

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