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, October 16, 2021
The Crew
Squadron Leader Clive ‘Killer’ Caldwell (far left), and pilots of No. 112 ‘Shark’ Squadron RAF stand beside the nose of a Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk fighter/bomber. He was Australia’s leading ace with 28.5 kills. North Africa, 1942.
Courageous men. Sadly, the current Australian culture appears to be devoid of these greatest generation lads.
ReplyDeleteI wonder how you get half a kill? Is it shared with another pilot maybe?
ReplyDeleteIf you didn't want to decide who got the kill, everyone who put rounds into the aircraft got a share. I've seen it as low as 1/4.
DeleteI still have one of those but in the Cox airplane model size. Had a lot of fun flying those things.
ReplyDeleteJust wonder the ratio of German to Italian kills in N.A.
ReplyDeleteDefended the Marxism and the Communists.
ReplyDeleteHe/they were misled by the tribe's fake version, actually anti-Christian propaganda.
Men----young, but Men.
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