Robin Posted September 15, 2010 Share Posted September 15, 2010 Today, let us once again remember "The Few", who gave us victory in the Battle of Britain 70 years ago. "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so Few". Robin. from the Garden of England over which most of the Battle took place. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Grant in West Oz Posted September 15, 2010 Share Posted September 15, 2010 Lest we Forget. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MacStingy Posted September 15, 2010 Share Posted September 15, 2010 Guess it's time to pull out the BoB DVD and enjoy it once again. First though I'll give thanks to the valiant defenders. Cheers Paul Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Kostucha Posted September 15, 2010 Share Posted September 15, 2010 Guess it's time to pull out the BoB DVD and enjoy it once again.First though I'll give thanks to the valiant defenders. Cheers Paul Couldn't agree with you more Paul, on both. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SBARC Posted September 15, 2010 Share Posted September 15, 2010 They did the impossible...out numbered....but still they prevailed. I still recall the stories when I was little as my Dad told me of the summer of 1940 when he was a a 14 year old school boy in London watching the dog fights in the skies during his summer vacation from school. And the one story of the 2 fighters battling it out with one finally getting the upper hand on the "enemy". My Dad and his friend cheering this Hun was shot down and running to see this enemy pilot up close as he parachuted to the end of their street.........only to discover it was a young Canadian flying for the RAF. That young Canadian pilot was uninjured and I'm sure he was back in the fight later that day or the next. So when I watch the BOB movie and see the young RAF pilot land in the greenhouse and the young boy brings him a cigarette.......that scene reminds me very much of my own Dad as the young boy and the unknown Canadian pilot. Oddly enough.....that was the first time my Dad met a Canadian and 9 years later he would be moving to Canada to start a new life. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cajun21 Posted September 15, 2010 Share Posted September 15, 2010 Here Here, a moment of remembering silence and a couple of pints in their honor. Then as others have stated a quick spin of the BoB DVD. "Lest we forget" Itch Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rampage55 Posted September 15, 2010 Share Posted September 15, 2010 Let us brace ourselves to our duties and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say,"This was their finest hour."... Winston Churchill Mark Quote Link to post Share on other sites
4scourge7 Posted September 15, 2010 Share Posted September 15, 2010 Ian Quote Link to post Share on other sites
geedubelyer Posted September 15, 2010 Share Posted September 15, 2010 We will remember them....... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Steve N Posted September 16, 2010 Share Posted September 16, 2010 (edited) I just pulled out the DVD and watched it over the weekend. Not because of the date, but because I've been re-watching my old DVDs now that I have a new TV and a Blue Ray player. It may have been made in 1968, but that movie still looks fantastic..especially in HD! SN Edited September 16, 2010 by Steve N Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jay Chladek Posted September 16, 2010 Share Posted September 16, 2010 I kind of celebrated by working on a model. At the local club meeting (we will have a BoB model contest at next month's meeting) I pulled out a 1/72 Airfix Spitfire Mk 1A and started working on it. I got a fair amount of the construction done by the end of the meeting. I blame it on James May's Toy Stories Spitfire episode for getting me in the mood to just whip one out and do one. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Steve N Posted September 16, 2010 Share Posted September 16, 2010 I'd been hearing about that show, but wasn't sure what everyone was talking about until we watched it during our model club meeting last week..and laughed our butts off! I especially loved that he attached the full-size parts to PVC pipe "sprues." May said he always fantasized about enlarging his kits to 1/1 scale..I was always the opposite, imagining what it would be like to shrink myself down to 1/72. SN Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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