Those are cool, but the one that caught my attention was...
WTF? One arm? OK, squadron leader, desk job... but standing beside HIS fighter???
1940-41, Eight kills (two at night).
February 1941, loses arm.
1941-42, five kills, (all at night)
1942-43, USA lecture tour.
1943, three kills, shot down over France, Germans reported he was a POW, but died in a hospital.
Wiki says...
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James was not academically talented although he did excel at poetry and attracted trouble from his school masters by forming libelous rhymes about his contemporaries and members of staff. He played rugby and enjoyed rowing but was not a sporty child. He enjoyed wildlife and animals. It encouraged in him a fascination with biology, and he regularly supplied rabbits and other specimens to the laboratory. He was never appointed a prefect and did not rise to a notable rank in the School Officer Training Corps. He engaged in carpentry and metal work. He and his friends built and manufactured a .22 pistol in the workshops. It test fired and worked. Keen to acquire a real firearm, he obtained a service revolver but shot himself in the hand.
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But the lad could fly... boy, could he fly.
