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From: Charles Lindbergh <spirit@stlouis.com>
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Subject: Re: Captain Eric 'Winkle' Brown RIP
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On Mon, 22 Feb 2016 00:00:34 -0000, "gemil" <forgetmenot@amnesia.wot>
wrote:
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>My Hero.
>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-35626854
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>Flew most German rocket/jet aircraft.
>Flew 487 different types of aircraft, a world record that is unlikely ever
>to be matched.
>Piloted 2,407 aircraft carrier landings
>Appointed MBE, OBE and CBE
>Survived 11 plane crashes and the sinking of HMS Audacity in 1941
>Was at the liberation of Bergen Belsen.
>Interrogated some of the leading Nazis after the war, including Heinrich
>Himmler, Hermann Goering and Belsen's chief guards Josef Kramer and Irma
>Grese
>~~
>Dingo
I have seen him on the History Channel many times, seemed like a very
affable, modest fellow. RIP.
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