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CHAPTER FOUR TYPHOON produced a bottle and demanded that we toast every conceivable aspect of 'la Liberation.' As the road climbed towards Mount Pincon we looked back, savouring the warmth of his raw Calvados, and saw him standing there, a lonely scarecrow, waving to us from the desolation of his home. Mount Pincon was a shambles. In and around the orchards and homesteads the spiked and shattered guns stared blindly out across the slopes which they had failed to hold. Abandoned equipment, empty ammunition boxes, the jetsam of battle lay everywhere. The remains of a classic defensive position, where the Germans had fought to the death, until overwhelmed at last by sheer weight of numbers and superior firepower. Here the dead were already buried, each temporary grave marked by a rough wooden cross, with a few hastily scrawled words, under a steel helmet. Even the aroma of death had begun to fade and the predominant smell was of burnt and pulverised buildings with a touch of farmyard manure. Not so as our truck jolted and rumbled on down the winding roads to the south and east of Falaise. The sickly sweet odour grew steadily worse, until it dominated the senses, and there was no escaping its dreadful embrace. Surrounding us on every side was the reality of what had been happening, down there in the bocage, inside the ring of steel which had closed and tightened around the German Armies in Normandy. It was like a vision of the apocalypse. From Trun to Vermoutiers ran the awful highways of death where the retreating columns had been cornered, and systematically destroyed, as they tried to escape. Stalled nose to tail they had been devastated by nonstop air attack, on roads swept by torrents of artillery and mortar fire, until hardly a living creature remained. We climbed down from the truck and walked among them in a valley still as the grave itself, where no birds sang and nothing moved except the flies and maggots. They lay where they had fallen, amongst the debris of their broken weapons and ruined vehicles. Some were hideously torn and disfigured, or charred and blackened until their shrunken corpses were hardly recognisable as those of human beings. Others lay seemingly untouched, calm and peaceful, handsome in death, their sightless eyes staring forever into space.The horses were the saddest sight of all. Unable to escape they had been mown down where they stood. Their bodies swollen and distended, their noble 55
COMBAT AND COMPETITION heads grimacing in rigor mortis, pitiful beyond words. The scale and the horror of it all was almost too much to take, and it was a thoughtful little party which returned to St Croix sur Mer that night. Yet there was hope too. For we had seen the twisted symbols of Nazism broken in the dust. Entrails of a defeated army. The victory at Falaise had struck a massive blow for freedom. Churchill surrounded by members of 146 Wing in Normandy, 1944. Gp Capt Denys Gillam (foreground), Fit Lt Davidge and Fg Off Kilpatrick (to his left in peaked caps). 56
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COMBAT AND COMPETITION Follows the
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COMBAT AND COMPETITION DAVID INCH D
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With my father Major Douglas Ince M
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Chapter Chapter Chapter Chapter Cha
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Skylark III National Championships,
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FOREWORD by Air Chief Marshal Sir C
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CHAPTER ONE CLOUD PAVILIONS WHITE W
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CHAPTER TWO MARKING TIME On my fath
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CHAPTER THIRTEEN FRONTIERS OF WHAT?
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Charles Wingfield in a Slingsby T21
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CHAPTER FIFTEEN FULL CIRCLE My job
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EPILOGUE It was quiet and peaceful
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GLOSSARY CHAPTER ONE 1. "Spitfire i
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GLOSSARY 1. C.R.E. Chief Royal Engi
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GLOSSARY a) lack of aerodynamic dam
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Adkins, Bruce. Alexander, Bill Alfo
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Hall, Fg Off-Fit Lt Charlie Handley
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HOW A GLIDER FLIES A glider flies,
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