Reply to: Spitfire!!!!!!

[SupremeSpod]

Visit a concentration camp or two, nobody won.

There are plenty of reminders of man's inhumanity to man.

Britain and its allies won the second world war and the Battle of Britain.

The "Great War" was supposed to be the war that ended all wars, it didn't and they're wars still happening.

You visited a couple of camps. It upset you obviously. However, keep it real.

[gingerjedi]

Visit a concentration camp or two, nobody won.

I've been to Dachau, I'm glad our brave boys and their allies kicked Jerry's arse.

[EternalOptimist]

Visit a concentration camp or two, nobody won.

you are shaken by your visit.
But consider what might have happened if the German invasion had gone ahead and succeeded. Sealion was posponed largely because the luftwaffe could not guarantee air superiority

[scooterscot]

Britain won the Battle of Britain FFS

Visit a concentration camp or two, nobody won.

[EternalOptimist]

Those birds with the croupier sticks, and tight-fitting , figure hugging uniforms, pushing blocks around a big map of kent won the battle of Britain

[HairyArsedBloke]

Some say that it was more of a case that Germany lost it, or that they just gave up.

[Gibbon]

Britain won the Battle of Britain FFS

[EternalOptimist]

radar won the battle of Britain

[HairyArsedBloke]

It was the Hurricane and it's pilots that won the "Battle of Britain".

Aye, not to be forgotten. I should have put that bit in to start with, sorry.

[shaunbhoy]

It was the Hurricane and it's pilots that won the "Battle of Britain".

Slightly contentious, but essentially true.

[shaunbhoy]

my great-uncle was a hurricane pilot, he said the scariest thing in his life was being chased over Kent by two fokkers at angels zero

Especially when those "fokkers" were Messerschmitts!!!

[EternalOptimist]

It was the Hurricane and it's pilots that won the "Battle of Britain".

my great-uncle was a hurricane pilot, he said the scariest thing in his life was being chased over Kent by two fokkers at angels zero

[SupremeSpod]

Sorry, but there is a few rude words at the end.

The Spitfire is a cracking bit of kit that, along with the heroes inside them, deserves every bit as much respect now as it did all those years ago.

It was the Hurricane and it's pilots that won the "Battle of Britain".

[Cliphead]

Ouch - wouldn't have wanted to be on this bad boy

Crosswinds aside I'd be more worried about this;

Trojan-ridden warning system implicated in Spanair crash

[HairyArsedBloke]

I've had some dodgy landings in a 767 n BA's flights into some of the smaller airports in the Caribbean during hurricane season, but nothing has been as bad as that.