The Great Burmese Buried Spitfire Hunt is now inspired with improved briefing graphics. http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/new-image-holds-key-hunt-5819555

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f you’d like to stay in the house where Willy Messerschmitt was born in Bamberg (it wasn’t a hotel then) you can book on-line here: http://www.booking.com/hotel/de/romantik-messerschmitt.en.html

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Photographs of all 617 Squadron aircrew that flew the famous dams raid in ’43 appear on the BBC website. This is a tremendous feat of research to find photographs of them all, as there is simply no way of knowing the names of most airmen in wartime photographs. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22544568

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On You Tube: 1997 BBC news report from Duxford of the takeoff and landing accident to Bf 109G-2 “Black 6”; in THE DECISIVE DUEL discusses how even experienced pilots (e.g. Galland) were subject to accidents landing the 109.

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