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By Donald Feesey
On the age of eighteen Don Feesey volunteered for pilot education with the RAF. Having nearly accomplished his direction to develop into a fighter pilot, an eye fixed challenge used to be detected and he used to be switched to navigational education. He accomplished a travel of thirty-four profitable operations, the bulk at evening in the course of 1944 and 1945 – on the peak of the bomber offensive. On one impressive sortie his Lancaster misplaced all strength and the order to bale out was once given. because the plane steadily misplaced altitude, creating a secure parachute descent extra most unlikely via the second one, Don used to be approximately to leap whilst the pilot, nonetheless on the controls, attracted his recognition. It was once a lifestyles or dying scenario. may still he leap or visit the help of his pilot, resulting in a virtually convinced dying? He elected to visit the help of what he notion used to be his trapped pilot – yet to his astonishment he discovered that the skipper had nursed one engine again into existence, so the one last workforce controlled to fight again around the Channel, merely to discover that at 700feet they can no longer climb over the customarily welcome white cliffs of Dover. They became for Manston, the closest airfield and flew alongside the sea coast to make an eventual secure touchdown.
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