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from the BBC

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8347063.stm

Extraordinarily rare footage of Spitfire pilots at leisure has been discovered.

The colour footage shows how the pilots kept their spirits high as the country fought for its very survival.

Alex Bushill reports

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Anyone can do the job when things are going right. In this business we play for keeps.
— Ernest K. Gann

Steve

It was called high jinx / letting of steam if your were an officer and larking about /tomfoolery if it was NCO's.

Generally Officers seemed to be allowed to get away with more than the NCO's!

Nice film though.

regards

Mark

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'Coups De Foudre'
(511FS, 405FG watering hole), St Dizier, France 1944/45

Link doesn't work.....error page 404.

What was the content?

Error page 404 either IE being silly beggars or link U/S ???

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Cheers,
Peter

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Same here in the land of Texas.....

bombed here too.

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tom d. friedman - hey!!! those fokkers were messerschmitts!! * without ammunition, the usaf would be just another flying club!!! * better to have piece of mind than piece of tail!!

Same error here in the U.S. I do know that some times the BBC puts special coding on their stories and embedded videos where it will only allow IP addresses located in Great Britain to access their stories. I even went so far as to try 5 different proxy servers with English IP's to try to spoof the coding filter. Either their special coding is extraordinarily effective or the link has the wrong address in it. It's still inaccessible to me.