Only John Glenn is left now of the Seven. Brave inspiring days.

Well after the lengthy furore over a certain labrador’s name in another epic then it is going to be difficult to work into the film about the 8th Air Force, given their segregation, a tearful moment when the CO asks that the cook, who for some inexplicable reason ran out onto the road outside the base and got hit by a car, be buried outside the mess at just the moment when the chaps are going into their bombing run. 😀

I know it’s hat and coat time.

I have often wondered given Reichsmarshall Goering’s build that some Luftwaffe fashionista with an eye for the chance of a promotion to Keeper of the Wardrobe didn’t suggest that Sky Blue is not the most suitable colour for a person of his, how shall I put this, physique. After all that nice chap Hugo Boss showed that he understood the problem with his SS uniform designs for Nazi gentlemen with more developed figures were concerned and indeed for those Nazi gentlemen whose figures were, how may I put this, not quite up to the demands of the Aryan ideal. That dear man Heinrich Himmler was, let’s face it darlings, bordering on the pear shape. We forget the awful truth that any Nazi celeb with serious concerns about dress sense and public image, colour and tailoring were of absolute importance if one was to be accepted as belonging to the A list.

What can I say darlings – Sky Blue is not his colour. 😀

Attaching wings to the interceptor version of the King George V was a triumph of British aeronautical engineering. :very_drunk:

Do me the courtesy of ditching the patronising, sarcastic comments; apparently it’s fine for Mr. McKay to introduce Burma into a BoB thread,

A point of order if I may M’Lud – actually it wasn’t I that introduced the now obsolete name of that country which is to the north-west of where I live, it was some other person I believe. And if we are being precise it is Dr McKay however in the interests of friendliness you can call me Malcolm (which I prefer). Now on another point is Moggy C’s response in post 59 a code for “Balls”. And if so in which crate or crates are these buried and what part besides having them did these play in the turn around time of whatever aircraft we were discussing.

I must agree with Moggy C that it is most likely Rocs entombed in the mystical East, or mystical North West if you live where I do. I can think of no aircraft other than perhaps the Lerwick or Botha that deserved burial as fast as they came off the production line. That said, I wonder why Burma was selected – was it some deep antipathy towards the place felt by some medium level civil servant and seriously speaking were they worth the cost of a perfectly serviceable packing crate.

Well personally I have always subscribed to the view that it was the wonderful combination of brave young men, hard working and heroic ground crews, wiser older RAF tacticians, radar, the group and sector controllers and their staff plus both the Hurricane and the Spitfire, not to mention the brilliance of AVM Keith Park and ACM Dowding that won the Battle of Britain. I find the need to single out one of those factors for the accolades at the expense of the others quite pointless.