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Дата 25.04.2007 14:54:36
Рубрики WWII; Современность;

Некрологи британских военных в "Ежедневном Телеграфе"

Wg Cdr Bobby Gibbes
Australian fighter pilot who was recommended for the VC and had little time for authority

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2007/04/25/db2501.xml

Chief Petty Officer Gordon Selby
Highly-decorated submariner who survived a remarkable series of close brushes with disaster.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=2EM00IHWF0OWZQFIQMGSFFOAVCBQWIV0?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2007/04/20/db2001.xml

Air Marshal Sir Geoffrey Ford
Radar and guided missile expert who became the RAF's Chief Engineer.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=2EM00IHWF0OWZQFIQMGSFFOAVCBQWIV0?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2007/04/19/db1901.xml

Major Alastair Morrison
Tank officer who won the MC for his devastating use of high explosives in Holland and later led battlefield tours in Normandy.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=2EM00IHWF0OWZQFIQMGSFFOAVCBQWIV0?view=DETAILS&grid=A1&xml=/news/2007/04/17/db1703.xml

Paul Bergne
British intelligence officer and diplomat who after 9/11 became the Prime Minister's adviser on Afghanistan.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2007/04/16/db1601.xml

Squadron Leader Neville Duke
Officer who became the wartime RAF's highest-scoring fighter pilot in the Mediterranean theatre and later a test pilot of supersonic jets

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2007/04/13/db1302.xml

Major-General Gerald Green
Officer who was private secretary to the Emir of Bahrain and a close confidant of Princess Andrew of Greece.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2007/04/09/db0902.xml

Wg Cdr Hardwicke Holderness
U-boat hunter off the coasts of France and Norway who later became an MP in his native Southern Rhodesia.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2007/04/07/db0701.xml

Lieutenant George Wookey
Navy diver who went to a depth previously thought impossible and later retrieved whisky from a famous wreck.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2007/04/06/db0601.xml

Squadron Leader Vesey Boyle
Pilot and rugby winger who saw action at Alamein and in Italy, and represented Ireland and the British Lions.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2007/03/30/db3002.xml

Kurt Vonnegut
Science fiction novelist who emerged as one of America’s greatest literary satirists and a guru of the counterculture during the 1970s.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2007/04/13/db1301.xml

Ну и на закуску

Obituary: Boris Yeltsin
The former Russian President Boris Yeltsin, who engineered the final collapse of the Soviet Union as the country’s first post-Communist president, has died, aged 76, the Kremlin has confirmed.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2007/04/24/db2401.xml

"Бій відлунав. Жовто-сині знамена затріпотіли на станції знов"
От Kalash
К Chestnut (25.04.2007 14:54:36)
Дата 26.04.2007 01:00:00

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