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#4153605 - 08/04/15 06:30 AM Last Dambusters pilot dies in New Zealand  
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Squadron 617 was way up there with the few of the BoB in my book.
Sad to hear this is another chapter closing.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-33769486

RIP

Slug

Last edited by Sluggish Controls; 08/04/15 06:31 AM. Reason: fatty fingers

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#4153614 - 08/04/15 08:37 AM Re: Last Dambusters pilot dies in New Zealand [Re: Sluggish Controls]  
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#4153618 - 08/04/15 09:57 AM Re: Last Dambusters pilot dies in New Zealand [Re: Sluggish Controls]  
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#4153642 - 08/04/15 11:18 AM Re: Last Dambusters pilot dies in New Zealand [Re: Sluggish Controls]  
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#4153653 - 08/04/15 11:48 AM Re: Last Dambusters pilot dies in New Zealand [Re: Sluggish Controls]  
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#4153673 - 08/04/15 12:25 PM Re: Last Dambusters pilot dies in New Zealand [Re: Sluggish Controls]  
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#4153676 - 08/04/15 12:28 PM Re: Last Dambusters pilot dies in New Zealand [Re: Sluggish Controls]  
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#4153683 - 08/04/15 12:37 PM Re: Last Dambusters pilot dies in New Zealand [Re: Sluggish Controls]  
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#4153928 - 08/04/15 10:53 PM Re: Last Dambusters pilot dies in New Zealand [Re: Sluggish Controls]  
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Cream of the crop!

Have to watch The Dambusters again now.


In all my years I've never seen the like. It has to be more than a hundred sea miles and he brings us up on his tail. That's seamanship, Mr. Pullings. My God, that's seamanship!
#4154284 - 08/05/15 07:54 PM Re: Last Dambusters pilot dies in New Zealand [Re: Sluggish Controls]  
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