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Well, they flew even faster than 100 mp/h, and so I guess the raindrops did not hit their faces. But then they were also quite masked, when they flew in bad weather, as this film shows (towards the end):

Haha, good one, Jim! I also have a short story here. When I travelled through England by motorbike with a friend, back in 1973, we once came to a pub in the outskirts of London. We just managed to drink one beer, when the landlord rang the bell for "last orders" - we were damn late. When we asked what to do, and told him we didn't have such rules were we came from, and that we were still very thirsty, he said "Okay, gentlemen - can you sing?" Shy we asked, if we would have to sing for another beer, but when he said "no", we said, yes, we could sing. He said: "Alright, gentlemen from Germany - I hereby declare you valid members of the "Bell & Crown amateurs' choir". Club meetings are allowed even after 23 h - what will you have to drink?"

True, Jim - we made a start; maybe others will follow. Great photo (like always!) of a Tripehound. Looks dangerously light and agile to me!

Yes - but it sounds like I've learned it in school, so I think it's alright. Just tested some names which I had heard spelled by French, and they sounded good. For place names you can never be totally sure though - a Bavarian village name might be pronounced there quite different to how an East Frisian would spell it.

Jim, we'd need a French here to be sure, but from my French in school days, it should be rather "Ber-tongle". EDIT: Here we go - set the left frame in this website to "Englisch" and fill in "Bertangles" without quotation marks. Set the right frame to "French/Französisch". Then click in the right frame on the speaker symbol, and you should hear it in French spelling. https://www.google.de/?gws_rd=ssl#q=French+pronounciation I tested several names, like Ypres, Frescaty, Lagnicourt, Bertincourt and even the Belgian Marckebeeke - and it sounds like I have heard the French people speak (been there 4 times9.

Yes, these are are locations - see "Colmar".

Mmuahahahahaaa!!!

One never knows, how location names are spelled by the people round there - "Ber-ton-gle" with a "short E" at the end, and the "s" not spelled, is more likely. But "Worcestershire" for example is spelled "Woostersher" - my school English absolutely failed me there...

Yes - from a 'girlish dreamer towards the fighter ace in just 5 years' - there is a determination in that look... Hauksbee, I wonder if these were the binoculars he would have used in a sortie - they are quite big IMHO. They used binoculars to search for announced E/A from the ground, before they would take off. Maybe the ones he used in combat were smaller - JFM might know...

Hey, Eric, nice you look round here! Yeah, Hauksbee speaks from my heart; I like this place better than the new one - your site is technically more advanced, or makes it more comfortable for us users somehow. And the atmosphere here - yes, that was a valuable "thing" that couldn't easily be "transplanted"...

Haha, funny, how commercials changed - or not...

In Germany it was still quite common in the late 20s and 30s. See this photo - the smaller kid is a boy.

However - at the age of seven, he had a more boyish haircut and was dressed up more like a sailor:

He looked like a little girl here. But that was quite common in those days. I have seen other photos of little boys who did not only have long hair, but were even wearing skirts. No one seeing this photo, could have expected that he would become Germany's No. 1 ace.

Here is WIKI about the film "633 Squadron", a film I saw as a teenager. Liked it! Don't know the other yet - must watch it myself. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/633_Squadron https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmzrz7zZyUo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcyRP5wctFg

That is impressive indeed - for a "flying piano"! "With kind regards to Herr Meyer, Berlin!" Mmuahahahahaaa!!!

Interesting knowledge; didn't know that!

A "racist smear" is some sign or text line a racist smeared on a wall - or so I understand it. Hauksbee, here is a video of the installation 'Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red' - it sees the Tower of London's famous dry moat filled with 888,246 poppies, one for each British and Colonial fatality during the war.

Here is a video about the "Mosquito" which I found interesting to watch:

Beautiful poem, Widowmaker! Somewhere I had read, that every poppy in Flanders stands for a fallen young soul. A frightening thought, when you have ever been there; when you have seen these huge Flanders poppy fields; how many poppies there grow, each like a stain of blood...

Yes, indeed - there is some Errol Flynn in him!

Well, he had 19 victories already! Of course he was cool!

In the "Battle of Britain" I guess they simply didn't have the time or energy left over for such things - they had to make several sorties most every day. But here are two pics of British ace Stanford Tuck, commander at Biggin Hill, and his aircraft - he obviously did mark his victories.

Garage man? Noddy series??? Jim, I'm from a different cultural area - could you enlighten me?