Those of you interested in the events in the minutes before Bader’s arrival in German captivity (rather than the events afterwards 😉 ) may be interested in the article by Andy Saunders in the new After the Battle (No 125) which arrived this am.
It makes for interesting reading.
By: Mark12 - 15th August 2004 at 10:08
There is a article in the ‘Mail on Sunday’ review section, written by the reseacher. Pity the ‘other’ pilot died last year.
mmitch.
I suspect in reality this story could only be told when the ‘other’ pilot had passed away.
Mark
By: mmitch - 15th August 2004 at 09:43
There is a article in the ‘Mail on Sunday’ review section, written by the reseacher. Pity the ‘other’ pilot died last year.
mmitch.
By: whalebone - 15th August 2004 at 02:17
He almost “copped it” on Sept 7th 1940. Flying with 242 Sqn he is listed as landed, severely damaged but ‘pilot safe’.
Apparently a few years later after they had become firm friends on the ‘after dinner circuit’ the pilots concerned developed a mutually acceptable story that this was the first time they had met each other.
For Bader that it was the first time he encountered a German ‘good enough to get on his tail’, for Galland it was ‘someone had to be good enough’. They had great respect for each other, in war and in peactime.
By: st170dw - 15th August 2004 at 01:42
Sorry Steve – a British hotelier – ducks to avoid incoming
By: srpatterson - 15th August 2004 at 01:38
I thought it was a hotel in Wales???
By: st170dw - 15th August 2004 at 01:32
was it an English hotelier who wanted his custom who shot him down?
By: Mark12 - 13th August 2004 at 17:18
After the Battle.
Having read the draft a few months back I would think this will make the ‘Nationals’. Fine research.
Mark
By: Flood - 13th August 2004 at 15:52
Hope this doesn’t start anything off, again…;)
Flood
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