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 | Top scoring Australian Pilot of the Battle of Britain Paterson Clarence Hughes DFC (September 19, 1917 – September 7, 1940), was a Royal Australian Air Force fighter pilot, assigned to the Royal Air Force during the Battle of Britain in World War II. The top-scoring Australian flying ace of the Battle of Britain and one of the 24 Australians who lost their lives during the battle, Hughes has been described as the "real driving force behind No. 234 Squadron RAF." A very interesting story..........worth the read. Paterson Clarence Hughes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
__________________ Spidge,  ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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