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Whoever edited that article is f***ing retarded!

 

Those 'red berets' are bloody maroon! And that 'Grippen' with the Spitfire is a Typhoon!

 

Cracking pictures though. They should have called the Typhoon the Spitfire in homage to the WWII fighter.

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His commander had a hunting horn lol

 

Still quite sharp for his age.

yeh :laugh: great old bloke , they seem a different breed to us of today don't they :yes:

 

Sure do mate,brings a tear to my eye don't mind admitting it. Reminds me of my dear old grandad 4ft nothing hardest man ive ever known in lots of aspects, he was in Belsin concentration camp etc hard cruel life 11/2 legs and 11/2 arms was still poaching/bushing right up til he sadly passed :cray: If i could become half the man some of these folks were id be a proud man :yes:

 

sound's like great old bloke :thumbs:

 

Sure was mate and sadly missed, taught me all i know about rabbiting/ferrets etc the things he used to get me doing in the early 70s were unbelievable looking back, but it was all good clean fun :D You would never get away with it these days though :cray:

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Bravery is in that man's blood.

 

When I read that piece about him reliving his jump 70 years on, I was smiling. He's got that D-Day spirit of just keeping on going no matter what.

 

Can you imagine what all of those 156,000 men were thinking at this time 70 years ago? They had almost no warning of what they were about to do so around now, they would have just been told and gathering their kit ready to board those barges to invade France. It's too much for words.

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