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[tigers_gonads]

They don't make them like they used to do

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2272393/Pilot-survived-Russian-gulag-making-Britain-fly-Spitfires-RAF-WW2-laid-rest-aged-91.html

RIP 

[ozzycat]

your not the only one TG i would have loved to have a pint with him RIP mate you deserve the rest and my admoratoin

[acope]

What a guy, trouble is ya dont hear these stories until they die, so they never get the tributes they deserve.

[tigers_gonads]

What a guy, trouble is ya dont hear these stories until they die, so they never get the tributes they deserve.

Very true that 
Not comparing my grandad to this bloke but at his funeral, I got talking to a old friend of his who was in Burma and Africa with him during WW2.

My grandad always refused to talk about "the war" when I was a kid.
After listening to his friends storys about some of the things that happened, I was even more in awe of him 
They say lifes experiences make the man well he was always a hero to me but after listening to those story's, he is even more so now 

Its a shame that the kids of today don't get to meet people like him more often and share some of their memories.
Imo it would make a hell of a difference to those kids and give them a good idea of what life is really about.
Not the politically correct shite that they get abused with nowdays

[Lizzie_Zoom]

A real hero.

Salute him with honour.  RIP. 

[Rods2]

What a guy, trouble is ya dont hear these stories until they die, so they never get the tributes they deserve.

Very true that 
Not comparing my grandad to this bloke but at his funeral, I got talking to a old friend of his who was in Burma and Africa with him during WW2.

My grandad always refused to talk about "the war" when I was a kid.
After listening to his friends storys about some of the things that happened, I was even more in awe of him 
They say lifes experiences make the man well he was always a hero to me but after listening to those story's, he is even more so now 

Its a shame that the kids of today don't get to meet people like him more often and share some of their memories.
Imo it would make a hell of a difference to those kids and give them a good idea of what life is really about.
Not the politically correct shite that they get abused with nowdays

That is what the BBC and other socialists think modern society should be like, so no chance that they would want such heroes to inspire them with un-PC imperialist thoughts.

There were many East Europeans that came and fought in the UK in WWII with much individual courage in the hope that they would be returning to their free countries after victory. Unfortunately, an appeasing Roosevelt put paid to that at the Yalta Conference, if he had backed Churchill there and in the aftermath of events, their may well have been a very different Europe after 1945.

Because of what happened in post 1945 Poland and the danger to "Western thinking Polish" from Stalin, the 200,000 or so who fought with the British in WWII were quite rightly allowed to settle here with a resettlement act in 1947.

Tony Rodgers was a hero amongst heroes. RIP

[acope]

Took my Grandkids to The Menin Gate at Ypres, to show them the harsh realities of war, they were numbed to say the least, they just didn`t realize the numbers and ages of the lads involved,we also went over to the D-Day beaches and to the Omaha beach cemetery,they had recently seen  "Saving Private Ryan" and thought what an "exciting" film it had been, until they saw the aftermath,
I think it would be a good idea for all kids to see these places to show them how lucky they are and to be grateful to all that have paid the ultimate price for our freedom.

[ozzycat]

What a guy, trouble is ya dont hear these stories until they die, so they never get the tributes they deserve.

Very true that 
Not comparing my grandad to this bloke but at his funeral, I got talking to a old friend of his who was in Burma and Africa with him during WW2.

My grandad always refused to talk about "the war" when I was a kid.
After listening to his friends storys about some of the things that happened, I was even more in awe of him 
They say lifes experiences make the man well he was always a hero to me but after listening to those story's, he is even more so now 

Its a shame that the kids of today don't get to meet people like him more often and share some of their memories.
Imo it would make a hell of a difference to those kids and give them a good idea of what life is really about.
Not the politically correct shite that they get abused with nowdays

That is what the BBC and other socialists think modern society should be like, so no chance that they would want such heroes to inspire them with un-PC imperialist thoughts.

There were many East Europeans that came and fought in the UK in WWII with much individual courage in the hope that they would be returning to their free countries after victory. Unfortunately, an appeasing Roosevelt put paid to that at the Yalta Conference, if he had backed Churchill there and in the aftermath of events, their may well have been a very different Europe after 1945.

Because of what happened in post 1945 Poland and the danger to "Western thinking Polish" from Stalin, the 200,000 or so who fought with the British in WWII were quite rightly allowed to settle here with a resettlement act in 1947.

Tony Rodgers was a hero amongst heroes. RIP

we have a polish camp 2 miles from us which was set up after the war quite a lot of war heroes live there the yong ones i.e 18-22 year olds are totaly diferant to the yobs that move here with the eu they are very polite and helpfull  all the polish people that live there are very good and neibourly  but not n many left now

[Lizzie_Zoom]

Took my Grandkids to The Menin Gate at Ypres, to show them the harsh realities of war, they were numbed to say the least, they just didn`t realize the numbers and ages of the lads involved,we also went over to the D-Day beaches and to the Omaha beach cemetery,they had recently seen  "Saving Private Ryan" and thought what an "exciting" film it had been, until they saw the aftermath,
I think it would be a good idea for all kids to see these places to show them how lucky they are and to be grateful to all that have paid the ultimate price for our freedom.

Good for you!   That memorial "gets" me with great emotion, especially as on tablet 56 is my great uncle Wally along with the other 55,000 with no known grave, and for children to grasp the waste of war in such a graphic way may just stop another conflict on that scale arising again!

As a suggestion, next time take them to see the Thiepval Memorial, with 74,000 names listed with no known grave. 

[acope]

Next on my list Lizzie.

[henryd]

I had an uncle who served in WW2 flying Swordfish torpedo bombers with a top speed of about 80mph when laden,he was shot down once and survived two sinkings at the hands of U boats and still went back for more,never knew any of this of this until after he died ,it was my Dads older brother,a very quiet mild mannered man.

[Lizzie_Zoom]

Next on my list Lizzie.

That is good, and whilst I am thinking of it the other one to take your breath away is of course the  Tyne Cot Cemetery, with 11,908 graves that you can walk through ( ) and the 35,000 names on the rear wall of those with no known grave.

Utterly sobering!

[acope]

Just watched a 2hr Dan Snow prog on the Battle of the Somme (was first on ,on Sunday if I remember rightly) and it featured the Thiepval Memorial,...pretty imposing building.
Hopefully get over there sometime this year, subject to my back problem sorting its self out..keep taking the tablets

[Rods2]

We have a lot to thank Churchill for where Stalin and others were calling for a second in Europe from 1942 onwards.

Churchill had experienced the carnage in WWI and was determined that the real strength and blood of the German army would be shed on the Eastern front before an invasion which is why it did not happen until June 1944.

[Lizzie_Zoom]

We have a lot to thank Churchill for where Stalin and others were calling for a second in Europe from 1942 onwards.

Churchill had experienced the carnage in WWI and was determined that the real strength and blood of the German army would be shed on the Eastern front before an invasion which is why it did not happen until June 1944.

Indeed, and the British and Americans agreed to let the Russians go all the way into Berlin, with 10,000 of their ranks being killed in the process!  Clever Churchill and Roosevelt