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.
The Swiss Air Force operated 182 de Havilland DH.100 Vampire early jet fighter-bombers. The Vampire was the first jet fighter in the Swiss inventory and were initially used for air defence.
Looks kinda like an early Brit fighter with twin tail booms.
ReplyDeletePerhaps the de Havilland Vampire.
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John McPhee wrote a great short book on the Swiss Army/Air Force. Bad a**es.
ReplyDeletePeter O'tool on the motor bike.
ReplyDeletethe swiss had (still?) camouflaged installations in the alps, one I recall was a tunnel entrance with a curtain of link chain across the entrance,
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