GOERING'S EAGLE DAY - meeting the enemy head on
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Flt Lt William Walker was called to full time service in September 1939 and joined 616 Squadron at Lakenfield Aerodrome. At first it was fairly quiet and they were rarely scrambled, until Goering's Eagle Day -the German plan of attack in which a few massive blows from the air were to destroy British air power...
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from Stuart Prebble 29th Mar 2009, 07:08
How amazing - to be thrown into a dogfight with hundreds of German planes - after only about 2 weeks of training! It's astonishing that any of these brave men lived to tell the tale at all. Wonderful to hear.
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