The last Dambuster leaves us, but shows us humanity's good side in his wake

[MacArther]

Harold Jellicoe Percival: Hundreds at funeral of World War II hero on Lytham-St-Annes who died with no close family or friends - Mirror Online

Don't cry....don't cry.....DARN IT!

A suitable send off for a man of the Greatest Generation

 

[Njaco]

Ok, the legless veteran in the wheelchair done me in. Along with all the poppies everyone is wearing.



Thank you Coe for your service..

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

 

[Airframes]

Excellent. Pity the author didn't pay more attention to his/her writing though.

 

[Crimea_River]

"The last dambuster leaves us".

Sorry but not true: Alberta veteran of famed air raid on Nazi Germany doesn?t assume ?hero? mantle comfortably

 

[MacArther]

I only quoted the article...nothing more.

 

[N4521U]

"I was just there".
How many have the mantle of Hero, who happened to "Just be there".
You go where they send you, you do what you have to do.

But, I speak and read English in part, because he was "Just there".

For that, we owe him our thanks.

 

[Wayne Little]

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

 

[Vassili Zaitzev]

 

[Lucky13]