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was hij ook niet altijd even te spreken over de opstelling van de brandstoftanks precies bij de voeten van elke Hurricane-vlieger.
Die wilden nog wel eens in de brand worden geschoten...
The fighting could be desperate. Neil told of a friend, Percy Burton, who, wounded and out of ammunition, rammed a big German fighter-bomber.
Both planes were destroyed. All aboard were killed.
Burton was recommended for a Victoria Cross, Britain’s highest award for valor, Neil said.
“He didn’t get it,” he said.
“He got a ‘mentioned in dispatches,’ which you get for cleaning the aircraft.”
“That’s the sort of thing that happened in the war,” he said. “People were expendable.”