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09-08-2008, 03:58 AM
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 | The best secret agent EVER Prepare to be amazed. British spy in longbow plot to kill Heinrich Himmler - Times Online (I'd copy and paste it here, but it cuts off traffic to the host.)
__________________ "I had ten rockets on board, and as I wasn't particularly fond of head-on attacks, I salvoed the whole lot at him. The rockets didn't hit him but but they must have scared the bejesus out of him, for he did a steep turn to starboard... I let him have the full blast, all eight fifty-calibers. I had never seen an aircraft completely disintegrate in the air the way this Me-110 did..." Bill Dunn, 406th Fighter Group  Matt |
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09-08-2008, 04:18 AM
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| Hi Aggie, >Prepare to be amazed. Hm, the really amazing thing for me is that the guy escaped to Britian in a Hornet Moth biplane, and Micdrow just posted a British wartime document on various oil samples, including ... "Sample No. AIR 343 Lubricating Oil from a British "Tiger Moth" flown from Denmark October 1943. Plane lying at Turnhouse, Scotland. Particulars on label: DH Moth, OY-DEH, Engine Type: Gypsy. Landed 19.10.1943. Tank from which taken sample undamaged." http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/eng...ents-5142.html (Fuels documents) Now a Hornet Moth is not a Tiger Moth, but I still wonder if that is the same plane (and what made you two post this with only days in between :-) Regards, Henning (HoHun) |
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09-08-2008, 10:31 AM
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| Pretty cool. Wack the dude with an arrow. Actually, that is pretty hard to do. Head shot? Arrows tend to lead to bleeding wounds. Be interesting to see the details. |
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09-08-2008, 08:08 PM
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| That reminds me ALOT of a Frederick Forsythe (?) book....the part about flying in the fog and climbing out on the wing to refuel the plane....hmmmmm.... One wonders: if this guy were so daring and successful, why haven't we heard about him before? Why would the only guy to interview him decide to publish the book now, when the operative in question has conveniently passed away and can no longer refute/confirm the stories?
__________________  Pillage, then burn. Argue not with dragons, for thou art crunchy and go well on toast. Last edited by RabidAlien; 09-08-2008 at 08:12 PM. |
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09-09-2008, 01:26 AM
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 Reminds me of Smith and Ulm's oil transfer experience of 1935... Treasures : Item : Charles Ulm and Charles Kingsford Smith Quote:
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