Beautiful Pipe Pictures.

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I protest!! Ally has been digitally expurgated from the ramparts just because his kilt was akimbo.

[Markw4mms]

Those are all very nice...thanks for sharing!

[TateLMcD]

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Bonnie Parker! The picture of the couple on the motorcycle is very cool, looks like it's from the 1950's.

[Shaunc]

These photos are great. I just got in from cleaning 1/2 a dozen dirty pipes, a job I detest. But these photos make it seem all worthwhile.

[allyby]

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Wg Cdr Gibson with Sqn Ldr Maltby in his office, May 1943


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Wg Cdr Gibson, Spafford, Flt Lt Hutchinson, Flt Sgt Deering, Pt Off Taerum
Frederick Spafford was the Bomb-aimer, Robert Hutchinson was the Wireless Operator, Andrew Deering was the Front gunner and Torger Taerum was the Navigator in Gibson's crew.

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Wg Cdr Gibson with Sqn Ldr Maltby in his office, May 1943


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Wg Cdr Gibson, Spafford, Flt Lt Hutchinson, Flt Sgt Deering, Pt Off Taerum
Frederick Spafford was the Bomb-aimer, Robert Hutchinson was the Wireless Operator, Andrew Deering was the Front gunner and Torger Taerum was the Navigator in Gibson's crew.

The gratitude of every home in our Island, in our Empire, and indeed throughout the world, except in the abodes of the guilty, goes out to the British airmen who, undaunted by odds, unwearied in their constant challenge and mortal danger, are turning the tide of the World War by their prowess and by their devotion. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. All hearts go out to the fighter pilots, whose brilliant actions we see with our own eyes day after day, but we must never forget that all the time, night after night, month after month, our bomber squadrons travel far into Germany, find their targets in the darkness by the highest navigational skill, aim their attacks, often under the heaviest fire, often with serious loss, with deliberate, careful discrimination, and inflict shattering blows upon the whole of the technical and war-making structure of the Nazi power. On no part of the Royal Air Force does the weight of the war fall more heavily than on the daylight bombers who will play an invaluable part in the case of invasion and whose unflinching zeal it has been necessary in the meanwhile on numerous occasions to restrain…

Winston S. Churchill 20 August 1940

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So young to be a wing commander, but by 1943 there was enormous attrition in the RAF - as predicted by WSC in 1940.

[allyby]

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Another hero of yester year, Douglas Bader.

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