And my post on the “In your Mind Thread”, I can’t see what was wrong with that ????

It’s true and the other little known fact is that Douglas Bader was captain at the time.

And greasy Europeans as well… 😀

We can start by taking away the jet fuel used by the English for their holidays to the US and Spain…. 😀

Could you just provide the fuel one way, it would solve a lot of problems

food at the supermarket.

I suspect only a fraction of the food in our supermarkets comes from the US.

the Hollywood film your watching on the DVD.

If it will stop Hollywood producing inaccurate historical crap then I for one would welcome the oil running out.

Maybe the medicine your granny just took.

That would be a miracle, ones been dead for the best part of 40 years, and the other the best part of 60 years.

We could melt down all the FAT Americans and fuel the world on the residue for centuries. 😉

Spending Saturday and then Sunday morning before Legends at Cambridge with Snapper, Hadyn, Jules and Steve. The flight over the various airfields, present and past, the banter at Legends and the Red Lion afterwards.

How did we know then one of us wouldn’t be here today, discussing the season and what maybe happening in the future.

Thanks for the correction James, I am not out to offend anyone.

I do still stand by what I said about indebtedness though. Being indebted makes it sound like we should sink to our knees in thanks, I’ve seen the size of Setters feet, I’m most certainly not getting in front of them.

Did any of the Commonwealth Countries opt out of WW2, I can’t think of any sat here at my desk. I guess the respective governments of Canada, Australia or New Zealand could have opted to have stayed out of the European war, and concentrated closer to home.

Australia has turned up for Britain’s wars for scant return for a century. We may politely differ on this one. It all depends on where one stands.

No I agree, the ANZACS and Canadians have been there for the UK in times of need, and have been treated terribly, especially when you look at the cost in lives at battles such as Gallipoli or Dieppe. And like I’ve said, the UK and the World should be indebted to those who served, and especially those who lost their lives, but thankful that the UK has such worthy Allies.

Aren’t the Australians standing side by side with the Brits and Yanks again at this present time ?

My comment about the Far East playing second fiddle to the European theatre was meant to be in relation to the forces fighting in that theatre calling themselves the “Forgotten Army”, it was not in anyway meant to mean that the war out in the Far East was any less important (In my eyes) than the war in Europe.

I can’t help thinking that we owe the people of USA and the Commonwealth countries an historic debt.

I don’t quite see it that way, yes we owe the people who fought and inparticular those who died, a debt for the freedom we have today. However it was inevitable that the US and many of the Commonwealth Countries would have been drawn into the war in any case. If the UK had succumbed in 1940 and Hitler had been able to throw the full force of his armed forces against the Russians, he most probably would have thundered across Russia. Leaving only a short 51 mile hop across the Bearing Straights into North America.

You could say the Americans owe the UK a debt for hanging on alone for another 12 months to give them the chance to prepare themselves.

Even though the Far East tends to play second fiddle to the European War, British Forces fought side by side with it’s Commonwealth cousins, and most probably helped to stem or at the very least delay the Japanese from invading Australia and New Zealand. So are they indebted to the UK, I don’t think so. They were all in it together.

Debt to those who dies yes, historical debt to the Americans and Commonwealth Countries, no, they deserve our thanks and gratitude for being alongside the UK in the “Worlds” hour of need, but I don’t think we are indebted in anyway.