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pics@lemmy.worldEnglish · 19 days ago

Today would have been my dad's 105th birthday. Here he is in his WWII flight suit with his tank of a Buick.

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Today would have been my dad's 105th birthday. Here he is in his WWII flight suit with his tank of a Buick.

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pics@lemmy.worldEnglish · 19 days ago

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He almost always called it “the Second World War”, not World War Two.

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Pacific or Europe?
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  Europe, he was based on the Isle of Man (RCAF).
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    My dad and his 2 brothers were in WWII they flew in the RCAF as well.

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