Nice way to remember

[gar170]

Working in Woodlands in the new forest today nice and sunny clear blue sky then had a wonderful fly past by a Spit.Then realised that it was the 6th June 63 years to the day so many young men were fighting their way up the Beach's.
Nothing like working in a beautiful part of the country to make you appreciate just how much we owe to every one of them.

LEST WE FORGET

[airborne_artist]

The father of a friend of mine served in the RAF in WWII - I asked him, on the 50th anniversary as we stood in the mall, where he'd been on the day.

"In my Spitfire over the British landing beaches" - what a great sight it must have been :ok:

[bwfg3]

Working in Woodlands in the new forest today nice and sunny clear blue sky then had a wonderful fly past by a Spit.Then realised that it was the 6th June 63 years to the day so many young men were fighting their way up the Beach's.
Nothing like working in a beautiful part of the country to make you appreciate just how much we owe to every one of them.

LEST WE FORGET

Well said sir, nothing to add

:D

[Tombstone]

We will never forget.

[MrBernoulli]

'Through Hard Work To The Cinema.'

We salute them all! :ok:

[Green Flash]

In keeping with the aeronautical theme, try http://www.evidenceincamera.co.uk/exhibits/

[Airborne Aircrew]

No sound nicer than a Merlin...

What a beautiful way to celebrate the day...

[Jimmy Macintosh]

I concur, currently reading Fighter Boys, genuinely stunning what they went through.

[Blacksheep]

My Dad was there, but he's forgotten all about it. He's forgotten almost everything except his name, bless him: but we never forget what they did. I'll be remembering again on the 23rd. That was the day they took the direct hit. The 6th was only the first day of a long hard fight.

Lord preserve us from Alzheimer's; its a terrible disease.

[Chukkablade]

I'm another one whose grandfather was there; sitting behind a Merlin and 'just getting on with the job' as he put it.

I flew up from Birmingham tonight on business. In the terminal, there was a charming old lady collecting for the Battle of Britain charity. I honestly cant remember ever being so happy to donate money to such a worthy cause.

So glad that we were once that nation.......so sad that now I feel we are a nation arranging deckchairs on the Titanic:{

[buoy15]

Chukkablade
Agree
Is it the culture or the colour of our once proud nation that has changed?
6th of June just passed and no one batted an eyelid
Cromwell, Enoch Powell and Winston Churchill must be turning in their graves
"There is a corner of every foreign country that is forever England"
This is true, I've been to most of them
Lest we forget

[gar170]

My father in law was in the Royal Engineers with th Armoured bgd and was in the first wave driving the specialist tanks.
It just goes to show how little respect there is in this country for what was endured on our behalf.
And i think maybe the media should step back and take a long good look at itself when something like D Day can pass without a mention of the loss of life and then the very next day all they can talk about is whether some rich bitch should be inside or not.

[Chukkablade]

Buoy/Garl, I think we both sing from pretty much the same hymn sheet in wondering just what the bloody hell went wrong.

This was a country which produced both heroes and engineers beyond measure. We proved the former in the extreme in the last major conflict, and the latter with the production of legends like the E.E. Lightning (Teddy Petter - what an unsung hero in the Mitchell mould) through to the awesome Harrier; an aircraft unrivalled and unsurpassed for 30 years by countries which had far more resources than ours. But then, they never had men like Fozard and Farley and others of such an ilk on the job.

TSR2? As an engineer, I made a hobby of researching that aircrafts design and projected capabilities a few years back while doing my degree, and was amazed at what those guys had managed to come up with back in the day. Visionary is not the word.

So what the hell happened? What went wrong? How did we end up knocking on the door of being a nuclear armed third world country with a Potempkin Economy (one that looks prosperous, but is built on debt) who can't even design an Olympic bloody logo correctly?

I have my opinions, but this isn't the place. Back to that bottle of wine:(

[tablet_eraser]

A top secret North Yorkshire RAF Station's annual reception was treated to a Spitfire flypast last night. The whistling roar of the engine, the harshly reflected sunlight from its belly as it pulled a steep turn a bare 200ft (or lower!) above the crowds, and the startling speed of its approach certainly explain why so many of the Enemy were terrified of it all those years ago. A truly amazing aircraft.

[Mmmmnice]

Quite right that we should remember................and also that an awful lot of servicemen/women are sticking their necks out daily as we speak....