07-05-2008, 07:26 PM
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Originally Posted by urqh  There is a marvellous though emotional chapter on the 2 girls fight for survival in the book Their finest hour, the name of the BBC series also of a few years ago. I have to admit to having to put the book down myself during one of the young girls descriptions when the sailors on HMS Grenade (could have been Hms Hurricane memory lacking here) were rowing towards them imploring them to hold on. | That's where I first read of the 'City of Benares'. Great book.
__________________ 'There I stood at the bar, wearing a Mae West, no jacket, and beginning to leak blood from my torn boot. None of the golfers took any notice of me - after all, I wasn't a member!' Kenneth Lee - after being shot down on the 18th August 1940. We had a squadron commander who believed in the head-on attack. 'The next raid we go up to intercept, we will do a head-on attack,' he said. So he attacked an Me 110 head-on and I'm afraid Jerry got the better of him and all we found of him was his shirt! Flying Officer Harold Bird-Wilson, 17 Squadron. |
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