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From memory he ended up in Colditz along with Bader who had been there a while before Tuck's arrival.

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[Bob Womack]

From memory he ended up in Colditz along with Bader who had been there a while before Tuck's arrival.

He did indeed. Knowing his shooting technique, I've always wanted one of those Supermarine Spitfire gyros you can find on eBay because that was the last thing Tuck looked at before he took a shot to make sure he wasn't in a slip. I should have snagged one when they were priced at $35.



My uncle flew Spits for the RCAF and died in a training accident.

Bob

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Thought I would share with you B W some of the books I have read most of them others have been stored away. Flipped the shelves to make hopefully reading the titles a bit easier slowly trying to turn them into hard covers with DW's & 1st Ed. a slow costly affair.

[Bob Seijas]

I worked with a guy who flew Spits in the Battle of Britain (Maurice Summers). He had a pronounced limp because the calf muscle on one leg was missing. I asked him how it happened and he related that his plane was badly shot up, and as he pulled out of a dive, both wings came off. He opened the canopy and stood on the seat to bail out, but one foot slipped off and wedged between the seat and the fuselage. Try as he might, he could not pull it out as the plane nosed over like a dart. In desperation, he stuck his rump out into the slipstream and pulled the ripcord... the chute inflated and yanked him out, minus his left calf.

His brother "Mutt" was a test pilot for the Spit.

[Bill Hollinger]

Thought I would share with you B W some of the books I have read most of them others have been stored away. Flipped the shelves to make hopefully reading the titles a bit easier slowly trying to turn them into hard covers with DW's & 1st Ed. a slow costly affair.

I don't see Wild Blue in that mix.