Achtung!-Achtung! – Ein Spitfire..

The curse of the skies for Germany…

As Germany tries to stifle the British with their deadly onslaught in the early years of the Second World War… An attempt, that in “its-self” was stifled by our Heroic Boys in the Battle of Britain, with their most Derring-Do in the iconic Spitfire with its own distinct sound, a sound of Merlin Engines that nearly eighty years later is still heard and most importantly still recognised, as even today, the roar of the merlin engine is heard burbling through the sky, all faces of the free Great British public & onlookers across the world, look to the sky, in hope of catching a glimpse of the man-made icon, as the legend lives on…

With legends of the sky comes the heroics of those who actually flew these wonders of the sky…  We must also never forget the unsung heroes of War Time England, and those who flew the Spitfire to and from the airfields, these are the women of the Air Auxiliary Service, with the last survivor dying this is truly the end of an era…

Ok this is somewhat different, appearing on the iconic spitfire, but its a tale worth viewing from “opposite eyes”

And another of our lost boys has been located and hopefully will return one day, to be further honoured & remembered by a new generation…

Sad Day…

It is a sad day when a workman steals off an old man of ninety-plus years of age, but when they steal a photo for goodness sake, a photo of such great significance it makes you realize this is a sad world with sad people who are selfish enough to inflict such sorrow… As an update, as of the 24th December 2020, the RAF has given this hero a replacement photo, all be it without the signatures, let’s hope the original photo will be returned before he dies, but saying that, at least the replacement from the RAF is something, and what a wonderful gesture, once a family member always a family member…

i would love to have the money to purchase as many of these war mementos and medals that come onto the market through auction or private sale, but leave then with the wives or husbands and only receive them once they have passed over, and them they would be put on display, telling each individual story of peoples lives, and what and how they performed whilst saving Britannia from the jack-boot…

I know this is not anything Spitfire-related but, can you imagine the chaos’s the boys flying our Spitfires would have done to the German fighters & bombers if they had a jet fighter plane…

Did you know, that within the R.A.F. most unexplained accidents caused during WW11 were blamed on male or female Gremlins !…

Doulas Bader

Below shows the groundcrew refueling a Supermarine Spitfire Mark VB, ‘ZD-Z’, of No.222 Squadron RAF, from a tractor-towed petrol bowser, while armourers replenish its .303 machine guns, at North Weald, Essex.

when the world was at its most fraught, and allies were hard-pressed to help even in a small way, why has Russia forgotten our lease / lend account, when mentioning World War 2 !