when I was a kid the gentleman that farmed south of my grandparents was in the infantry in WW2. he told me a story of how one time they where pinned xown in a village, with a tiger tank in the village square shooting anything that moved. called in air support and they got a typhoon. said it was one of the sweetest sights I his entire life when that typhoon rolled in loosed a pair of rockets and the tigers turret luanched straight up landed upside down beside the hull and commenced to burn.
Description of flying a Thphoon i WW2.
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Sign on the Typhoon engine cowling
If the engine catches fire on start-up
Don't stand around waving your arms
Try putting the bloody thing out as well!
If the engine catches fire on start-up
Don't stand around waving your arms
Try putting the bloody thing out as well!
Hello Bruce and fellow Nutz. My father was an RAF fighter pilot with 73 squadron during the Battle of Britain, one of the few. He hoped he was going to be a fighter pilot instead of a bomber pilot during selection, they were sent where they were needed. He was shot down three times during the Battle of Britain, five times in total during the war. He spent the last two and a half years as a POW in Stalag Luft III. I still have his Stalag dog tags. New Fighter pilots during the battle used to arrive in the morning and were dead by the afternoon. I think he also might have flown a Typhoon, I will check his log books. My father loved to talk about his wartime Experience's, he even recorded a few hours for the Imperial War Museum. He said being in the cockpit of a Hawker Hurricane was the best part of his life. He was very lucky to have survived.
