05-25-2018, 05:43 AM
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Junior Master Dwellar
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Buckinghamshire UK
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New motorbike is a tribute to war heroes’ ‘Flying Flea’
A MOTORCYCLE ridden by British paratroopers behind enemy lines in the Second World War has been commemorated with a new limited edition bike.
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Royal Enfield made the lightweight RE/WD 125 “Flying Fleas” which were parachuted down in protective cages.
Now the company has produced a motorcycle in tribute, the Classic 500 Pegasus, which was unveiled yesterday with an aerial display from the Red Devils parachute team.
The 10 paratroopers leapt from a C-47 Dakota above Imperial War Museum Duxford, near Cambridge.
The launch was attended by veterans including Fred Glover, 92, who was 17 when he joined the 9th Parachute Battalion.
He was wounded in a glider landing in Normandy and taken prisoner. But he escaped from a hospital.
He returned to the battalion and saw action during the Battle of the Bulge and the Rhine crossing.
Looking at the Dakota, Mr Glover said: “I wish I was in there.”
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