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.
Free French Spitfire?
ReplyDeleteIs that an 8 Track he has on the top of the dash?
ReplyDeleteNot an 8-track. It's the base that contains the illuminator of the reflector gunsight whose rectangular sight panel lies atop it.
DeleteYes, the stork was Squadron 329's totem and 5A was the squadron designator.
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Bad to the bone...took men to fly these
ReplyDeleteThose were the days of mano a mano up close and personal bellicosity.
ReplyDeleteI can fly it but I can't land it. Monocular vision.
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