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#OTD with adrenalin pumping pilots of 1 (RCAF) Squadron sight three boogies: however, the negative side effects come to the fore. Engaging blue-on-blue Blenheim Z5736 crashed on landing at RAF Thorney Island 16:50 hrs. Blenheim T1804 crashed into Bracklesham Bay at 16:45hrs. #BoB

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RT @LordAshcroft: The Lord Ashcroft Gallery is my pride and joy. I am deeply saddened by @I_W_M's decision to close it this September. I….

RT @robert_lyman: Looking through the aerograms send by ETD Lambert to his mother during the battle of Kohima -8 May, so 5 days before the….

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#OTD F/Sgt. John Douglas Taylor Taylor-Gill virtually hands the Luftwaffe a complete Photo Recon Spitfire I after a force landing and capture near Avranches, northwest France on 17 Aug. 1940. A qualified linguist in German he is a vital cog at various POW camps.

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#OTD PO Herbert Ballantyne, a 22-year-old from Hastings, New Zealand, tragically lost his life alongside his crew when their Hudson malfunctioned. Only seven days away from celebrating his 23rd birthday at the Kings Head in Bircham Newton, in the company of Sam McHardy. #BoB80

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#OTD 13 August 1940, Ju 87s of IV.(St)/LG1 escorted by Bf.109s of JG.26 hit RAF Detling, Kent. RAF Coastal Command Blenheims, Hudson & Beauforts had put the death knell in Sealion. It's pay back time. The result was catastrophic: 22 a/c lost; 67 persons killed; 93 injured. #BoB80

#OTD 12.Aug.1940: Flying Officer Ian Jameson, navigator Sgt Harold Butler, becomes disoriented over Den Helder and is unable to locate their base, Detling, in Kent. Short of fuel, the 27-year-old orders Butler and Stanley McAndrew to bail out, then Jameson jumps. All survive.

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RT @1940Andy: The long grind to complete work on Vol 1 of the revised ‘Battle of Britain Then & Now’ nears an end. Finally! (The running or….