And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Saturday, July 29, 2017
The British Fairey Swordfish biplane torpedo bomber, which holds the distinction of having caused the destruction of a greater tonnage of Axis shipping than any other Allied aircraft.
Venerable old war bird.
ReplyDeleteI don't remember who said it. Nor the exact words. You go to war with what you have, not what you want.Slowed the Bismark down iirc.
ReplyDeleteThe justifiably famous Stringbag.
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