The Last Trufflesnorting Hero

somewhere to the right of joseph goebbels

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@SandyofSuffolk I hope he makes a full recovery. Waiting for information can be the worst part of a hospital stay & the unknown is always a worry.
Good health and recovery wishes to you both

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@orlaminihane @pinkladies_uk Locals are saying it’s a white traveller family camping at an industrial estate and her father is the 35 yr old arrested.

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

Norman Jackson climbed out of a Lancaster bomber onto the wing, in the freezing slipstream, four miles above Germany, to put out an engine fire with a hand extinguisher while the aircraft flew on through the night. It is one of the most physically unbelievable acts of courage in the history of the air war, and the fact that he survived it at all is a miracle.

Jackson was a flight engineer, and by April 1944 he had already finished his tour of 30 missions. He did not have to fly again. But his crew still had sorties to complete, and he would not let them go without him, so he volunteered for one more, a raid on Schweinfurt. On the way home a German night fighter tore into them, ripped open the wing, and set the fuel tank ablaze. A wing fire on a bomber full of fuel meant the aircraft would explode within minutes. Everyone aboard knew it.

Jackson, already wounded by shell splinters, did the only thing that might save them. He got a fire extinguisher, strapped on his parachute, and had his crewmates feed the rip cord out slowly so his canopy would billow behind him as an anchor. Then he pushed himself out through the hatch into a 200 mile an hour wind and hauled himself out onto the wing of the flying bomber, in the dark, at 20,000 feet, and started fighting the fire by hand.

He nearly did it. He got the extinguisher onto the flames and had the fire coming under control. Then the night fighter swung back for another pass and raked the aircraft again. Jackson was hit in the legs, the fire flared back up and burned his hands and face, and he was swept off the wing into the night. His parachute, already burned by the fire, streamed out only partly open and smouldering.

And he lived. He fell four miles with a half-burned parachute and hit the ground with a broken ankle, a shattered leg, and terrible burns, but alive. The Germans found him and he spent ten months in hospital before a POW camp, from which he later escaped. His own crew, who bailed out and assumed he was dead, survived to tell what he had done, and that is the only reason the story is known.

They gave Norman Jackson the Victoria Cross. He climbed onto the wing of a burning aircraft in flight to save his friends, and then fell out of the sky on fire, and got up and walked away from it.

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@WingsScotland Gooks

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@daveatherton Good to get rid of it. Another reminder for us all the test is worth having. Here’s to a speedy recovery

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@daveatherton Best wishes for a full recovery !

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@STVNews They’re not refugees.

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@KTHopkins I’d gas him. Slowly

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@hoyer_kat I’ve really enjoyed Weimar and am planning to visit the area now to see the places I’ve read about. It’s a fascinating historical account & very well researched

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@GuidoFawkes Vile, lefty bastard

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@Brooke_L_S The lyrics are said to refer to Greek student Danae Stratou who studied at St Martins at the same time as Jarvis. She came from a wealthy background and fits the narrative but it’s never been confirmed or denied. She went on to marry Yanis Varoufakis, Greek finance minister

[David Davis MP @DavidDavisMP]

Peter Murrell has now been exposed as a thief.

However, this SNP scandal exposes deep rot at the heart of the Scottish establishment and a chain of events that ultimately led to the untimely death of Alex Salmond.

Watch my full speech here 👇🏻

[Conor Matchett @conor_matchett]

DYNAMITE: Nicola Sturgeon 'tried to jail Salmond to cover-up hubby's crimes', ex-FM's ally claims

Adds she knew about the crimes, tried to cover them up, and benefitted from them

"She is lying", David Davis said.

https://t.co/ak26a5Ro5z

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@RestoreLich @BROKENBRITAIN0 @grok Byrley Road Rotherham mate

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@NoContextHumans What if the currency was devalued between transactions ?

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

The UK has become a prison island.

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

A sea of 🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 flags and Brits singing Sweet Caroline.

No face masks, no genocide chants, no adoration for murderous regimes, no support for proscribed groups.

@Keir_Starmer is this what hate and division looks like? Looks welcoming to me.

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@TheFreds I think he’s put too much sherry on his cornflakes