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Old 11-27-2012, 10:30 PM
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Default Incredible Wartime Story

A 1942 Beaufighter mission over Paris.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/b...ied-Paris.html
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Old 11-28-2012, 12:04 AM
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Great story, Thanks for the link!
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Old 11-28-2012, 07:05 AM
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Incredible and amazing story about Wg Cdr Gatward. Thanks for the knowledge. Very interesting read indeed!

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Old 11-28-2012, 11:13 AM
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Mr Grinter said: "It is an amazing story - one of those that makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand up.

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Old 11-28-2012, 09:23 PM
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Would the German Luftwaffe have done the same thing over Nelson's Column in 1940? Perhaps not?

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Old 11-29-2012, 09:25 PM
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Would the German Luftwaffe have done the same thing over Nelson's Column in 1940? Perhaps not?

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Hung the French Tricolor over Nelson's Column ? That would have sure got the Brit's back up.
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Old 11-30-2012, 02:34 AM
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good wartime story of a daring act !

thx for posting it
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Old 11-30-2012, 11:52 AM
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Glad that people enjoyed it.

It's really amazing to me that such a mission was authorised and took place - it reads like something out of one of those 'Commando' comic books I used to read as a kid. If someone had told me about this in the pub I probably wouldn't have believed him.

Sometimes reality is stranger than fiction!
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