Hmm. Rear echelon boys being handed some prisoners, roughing them up a bit, getting out the disposable camera… “Hey guys, lets get some shots of us being heroic with some prisoners, this’ll get us laid with the birds back home.”

Except that some of them were birds. But, on the other hand…;)

Should have expected Sauron to call it rubbish – but then it was never ‘hearts and minds’ with him, let alone the American troops. – Nermal

Um, no. – Nermal

Who might that be?

Another “Yank” chiming in, and the Eagles were NOT formed prior to the B of B. Art Donahue, from my home state of Minnesota was one of the first in 71 AFTER the B of B but he’d flown in the B of B with 64 if memory serves, being wounded. He was not a fan of the Eagles and transferred out before they became operational.

71 was formed September 19, 1940. As of October 8, 1940 they still had no aircraft. Donahue transferred back out on October 23rd and they got 3 Brewsters on the 24th and it appears they didn’t start flying anything operational until January of 41

Dan

And when they finally went into action they had Hurricanes; as Flood says the Buffalo were just for training purposes. Americans did fly with various RAF squadrons – the same as French, Czech, Poles, etc, etc, etc.
Could it have been put about for propaganda purposes that Americans were in an ‘Eagle’ squadron, maybe to encourage more to join up? – Nermal

No: it was the middle of the night. – Nermal

Didn’t he have joint nationality only by marriage? – Nermal

Getting it back on topic – maybe.
Anybody know when Roger Waters father was killed? I heard he was on bombers and got shot down; it has affected the way he feels about life, if nothing else… – Nermal

Wonder whatever happened to him… – Nermal