The Forbidden Heroes
Dodane przez Artur Wielgus dnia 24.03.2018 01:22

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Hawker Hurricane was his airplane.
Karubin was chasing a German fighter
at tree top level, when his Hurricane
had run out of ammunition.

Karubin closed the distance
and climbed right above
the German fighter,
who crashed into the ground

when he had seen the underside of Hurricane
within arm's reach of his cockpit.
The German pilot tried to avoid the collision,
reducing altitude without precision.

In 1944 on D-Day,
he and all members of his squadron 303
flew many times
over the landing beaches.

Division 303 used its Spitfires
on various ground attack misions
on V-1 and V-2 launch sites,
located in the Netherlands.

Pilots from squadron 303
claimed 126 kills in six weeks,
had 7 their pilots killed and 5 badly wounded,
but were not invited

to London Victory Parade in 1946
and Western betrayal of their country,
culminated upon taking half of their homeland -
breaking morale of the broken winners.

A. R. Wielgus 2018