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The most badass thing I’ve ever read.

With this week being anniversary of the D-Day landings there’s a few posts going around of special individuals. There’s this guy:


This is Norman Jackson a recipient of the Victoria Cross, Britain’s highest honour for servicemen. He was a crew member of a Lancaster bomber who on night raid against a factory in Germany came under attack from a fighter. He’s wounded by shell splinters from the the attack and out of action.

Realising the right wing of the plane is on fire he straps on a parachute, grabs a fire extinguisher and [b]climbs out of the plane on to the wing[/b] while it’s flying and fights the flames with the extinguisher. His hands and face are burned in the process but he hung on. A second attack from the fighter blows him clean off the wing. The rest of the crew make it home but he was captured by the Germans and paraded through the streets before being imprisoned.

Despite his wounds he escaped from a POW camp and made contact with the US army in France and reunited with his old crew.

The balls on this guy, how did he fit them in the plane??
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What courage. Respect