Last Of The Dambusters Dies

[choux]

Sq Ldr George "Johnny" Johnson, aged 101, dies peacefully in his sleep. R.I.P.

Story broke this morning on BBC Breakfast and they put out a lovely tribute to him on the lunch time news.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-63899393

[Peter Pedant]

Jimmy, the story went, spent the day of his 21st birthday bombing the Eder Dam.

god they were so young.
I looked ( before retiring) at the young men working around me and thought - god you were flying planes and shooting up Germans 80y ago.

[Canary42]

Thankfully, today's teenagers aren't called to such bloodbaths. But it's a bit unkind to assume they wouldn't acquit themselves equally if they were called upon - we must pray that they won't be.

[choux]

One thing that I always have noticed is when such men from our services die and there is an interview with them broadcast - they, without exception, seem such modest gentleman, quite reserved and always insistent on pointing out that their comrades who fell were the heroes, not themselves.

I trust that this man will have a funeral befitting the hero he was.
R.I.P. sir and thank you.