the pilot that saved buckingham palace
the royal air force fighter plane, whose pilot saved buckingham palace from a direct hit during the battle of britain, has been unearthed in central london by a team of archaeologists. the hurricane's engine was finally hoisted from its muddy grave sunday night after excavations began saturday morning in buckingham palace road, victoria. its pilot, ray holmes watched.the story of the pilot's heroic action is brilliant! on the last day of the battle of britain, that's 15 september 1940 for those of you that'd rather celebrate the battle of puebla and drink margaritas on 05 may (ha!), the pilot sees three planes lining up to attack the palace. he shoots one down and gives chase to the others, when he discovers that he's run out of ammunition and that there's only one more german dornier left. showing scant regard for his own life the pilot decides to use his plane to slice through the tail of the enemy aircraft as it approached the palace. the german plane plumets nose down into the forecourt of victoria station and sgt holmes bails out of his. his plane crashes in buckingham palace road while he ends up dangling just off the ground, bare feet in a dustbin, after missing the electric rails of vitoria station while heading towards the roof of a three-storey house in his parachute.
three cheers for sgt holmes!
read the full story here.
