A WWII Canadian Flying Ace (a true story)

[Jersey mike]

A really cool story about a guy that was a real hero and badass.


http://thechive.com/2016/11/13/why-has-no-one-told-me-about-badass-pilot-douglas-bader-15-photos/

[Beardo]

Thanks for posting. Most Canadians know about (or darned well should know about) him.

So many amazing men in that generation.

[baldo]

That would be MR BADASS ......

[gordonv]

My first thought was Billy Bishop.

http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/william-avery-bishop/

Was surprised reading the link. But then, he's British, leading a Squadron of Canadian pilots.

Here is the move, Reach for the Sky, done on his life. Seems all there. If I get the time, I'll try to watch that one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzB4EjeGvwg

[Alpha Dog]

Great great story, one I had never heard.  There are countless heros form that war whose stories seldom get told and why that was the greatest generation and fought a two front war to rescue the world from it totalitarian enemies in only a short 3 1/2 years.