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“If we’ve been forced into a back-alley fight, are we to ignore the essential weapons of the street brawl?”
John Nichol, Tail-End Charlies: The Last Battles of the Bomber War 1944-45

“Major (later General) Curtis LeMay recalled the shock of fog when he flew in to a British airfield for the first time from the US. ‘Can you see the runway lights?’ the control tower asked the pilot of his aircraft, to which the pilot replied: ‘Shit, I can’t even see my copilot!”
John Nichol, Tail-End Charlies: The Last Battles of the Bomber War 1944-45

“Nerves got the better of the most experienced pilots during Rhubarbs. On one occasion, two of Robertson’s fellow 111 Squadron pilots flew over the Channel up into cloud then came down and slipped over the coast. They spotted a train and shot it up before heading back home. They were surprised on return to be called into the Station Commander’s office. What had they been shooting at? A train. Did they damage it? Yes, quite a bit. Did they realise the train they’d shot up was heading to Margate?16”
John Nichol, Spitfire: A Very British Love Story

“But this was life in those days. Today we are a totally different society. We put out bunches of flowers, have little vigils, hold hands and have counsellors to tell us all what to do. It was totally different then. The world events were so monumental that you had no time to think about the people who had fallen by the wayside. If we had had today’s attitudes, we would never have won the war.”
John Nichol, Tail-End Charlies: The Last Battles of the Bomber War 1944-45

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“He was the large protruding nail on which destiny snagged her coat.”
Boris Johnson, The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History

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