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Old 18-09-2007, 02:15 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Spitfire

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermarine_Spitfire

Spitfire,-1939-.jpg

Spitfire Flying over the English Coast 1939

Spitfire_IV_XII_DP845 Griffin.jpg

The first Griffon-powered Spitfire, DP845.

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Duxford, 2001. The "Grace Spitfire," a preserved trainer version, ex-No. 485 Squadron RNZAF.
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"You were given the choice between war and dishonor.
You chose dishonor and you will have war."

(Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.)

What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site:
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