(From the "Daily Mirror" of the time)
THE FEW
"These are the men of whom we said:
They are not what their fathers were -
"They........and do not cut their hair"
"Now these like eagles live and die
And in the time....................
They shoot a pair of Heinkels down"
Sadly, I cannot recall the "....s" (nor can Google bring up the quotation)
And, after the 1941 New Years Honours List was published, a back-bencher got up in the Commons and asked: "
What about the knights who ride on the wings of Spitfires ?
Well said both, I thought - and resolved to volunteer for the RAF.
D.