Thread: Spending Day with BoB Spitfire Pilot - Questions Please
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Old 11-28-2011, 06:29 AM
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Is it true that all British airmen were issued with brown underwear to save embarrassment?
No but due to the privations of war and after fighting alone for so long they were probably a little tired and grey.
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