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DAVID ISBY's latest book is THE DECISIVE DUEL: SPITFIRE VS. 109 at .

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@OldNewYork1664 Boston is like Kandahar, a tribal city, but with better sports teams

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@OldNewYork1664 The nearest thing to European feudalism that took root in the territory of the original 13 states, despite the strong Dutch contributions to what became American freedoms.

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@DefenceGeek United States v. Three 8x10 Photographs and one Greasy Raincoat remains a classic,

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@KampfmitKette I recall that was a poster on a German minesweeper I visited in Portsmouth during the 1970s.

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@AntoineVanner Captain Lucas, captured at Trafalgar, was dining out on that experience in London for years,

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@clark_aviation One of several "DC-3" replacement designs that did not replace anything. While Donald Douglas and Art Raymond liked the DC-5, it would be hard to beat the Potez 841 for elegance.

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@JoyceCarolOates Sometimes, auto-correct has the right idea. I once wrote "a [frightfully important] person, speaking under Chatham House rules" which was rendered "Chowder House rules".

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@dygoktas I believe the individual in question was a pilot in the Ottoman Navy rather than Army.

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@Samurai19801 I've been told many times "I'm sure you would be happier in Afghanistan".

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@simonharley Good to practice friendly national anthems. The Marine Band still has not lived down the time when, instead of the Austrian national anthem, they played Edelweiss from the Sound of Music.

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@kristenauthor Barker knew how to do creative non-fiction. He was a journalist and a Spitfire pilot. His account of the Bermuda Sky Queen and what it took for everyone to walk away from that one is a classic,

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@gem_ste As Dickie 3 found out to his posthumous sorrow, if Willie Shakespear makes you a villain, all the historians, all the king's hoses and all the king's men will not put your place in history together again.

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@GrtAmericans He doesn't just say it to Jefferson, he sings it (in the musical 1776).

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@EmmaMAshford That's nothing. They played "Turkey in the Straw" for Nixon. If nothing else, it was worth going to China for that.

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@LydiaJane13 In New York you can get offered drugs while being run over, expediting the process.

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@ValkStrategy @DrTraceyK I would remind him that the greatest air battle in history was won by the pilot called Stuffy.

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@RevdPye @AntoineVanner @MargyMayell @michaelkeegan14 @MalcolmCGodfrey @pirateirwin @theskibeagle @EdnaKB2 @oldtoonloon @FAB87F @Gallipoli100 I believe the destroyer's commanding officer was German

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@adonispara A perceptive student and practicioner of insurgency and counter-insurgency taken from us much too soon. He would have been pleased to have seen RENAMO sitting in the parliament of Mozambique.

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@PaulEhrlich13 I respect those that fake their own death. I have tried very hard to fake my own life.