Wednesday, 19 March 2025

John “Paddy” Hemingway, Last Surviving Pilot of the Battle of Britain, Dies at 105

A fighter pilot in a vastly outnumbered Royal Air Force — one of the “few” hailed by Churchill — he took to the skies to help stave off a Nazi land invasion of Britain.

from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/VjBIHoF

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Selma van de Perre, Dutch Jew Who Resisted Nazis, Dies at 103

“It is impossible not to marvel at her steadiness and courage,” one reviewer wrote after reading her memoir. from NYT > Top Stories htt...