Sole Surviving Battle Of Britain Pilot

choux | 14:59 Sat 23rd Jul 2022 | News

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Well worthy of a post for Group Captain John Paddy Hemingway, aged 103.
Shot down twice and still with us.

https://www.virginmediatelevision.ie/player/show/2236/0/0/News-at-7
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11041529/Sole-surviving-Battle-Britain-pilot-103-reunites-World-War-2-era-Hurricane-fighter-plane.html

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Makes me proud to be Irish :) he was an amazing man to think he was shot down and went back again for more, the RAF pilot yesterday says flying that Hurricane bomber is like a gym workout. Ireland was neutral but thousands of Irish men and women left to fight the war

15:23 Sat 23rd Jul 2022

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10ClarionSt

The majority of Irish who fought on the side of the UK in WW2, weren't fighting for Britain. They were fighting against Nazism. Many Irish who fought on the side of the British were pilloried in the Republic for enroling in the British armed forces. I suppose it depends on your viewpoint.

But a really brave man, nonetheless. He deserves the praise and thanks.

As squad said earlier, the Hurricane shot down many more German planes than the Spitfire. The Spitfire was only armed with rifle calibre bullets and any German plane that was hit by a Spitfire had a chance of making it back. However, if they were hit by a Hurricane, they had no chance as the Hurricane had cannon fire. Much more powerful and deadly than the Spitfire. And the Germans knew that.

choux

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Fatticus, thank you. To some nothing is sacrosanct.

FatticusInch

You’re welcome Choux.
I’m sort of linked to the whole era because my grandfather was ground crew on Spits in WW2 and whilst in the Forces I learned to drive on Tangmere Airfield, former station of Douglas Bader.