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Well-known story of the Second World War with never-before-released pictures:
One very cool customer: Churchill, puffing on cigar and wearing dashing aviator
glasses while being tailed by the Luftwaffe during most daring flight of the whole war'
One very cool customer: Churchill, puffing on cigar and wearing dashing aviator
glasses while being tailed by the Luftwaffe during most daring flight of the whole war'
the story and the pictures at Daily Mail link aboveIt was the perilous 18-hour flight which saw Britain's wartime Prime Minister fly back from America while being hunted by the German Luftwaffe.
Winston Churchill had flown back across the Atlantic in 1942 after lobbying President Roosevelt over the Allied Forces' strategy against Hitler.
And given the flight risks and importance of the discussions, the long-haul voyage back to Britain was one of the most significant of the Second World War.
Now a rare family archive has captured the intimate moments of Churchill's flight, including pictures of the wartime leader at the controls of the Boeing Clipper flying boat RAM 'Berwick'.
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