RIP Mary Ellis

THANKS ..I would have easy missed missed that and usually not that interested but I started reading and it was compelling.. read it all and thougth wow...
 
KIPAX said:
THANKS ..I would have easy missed missed that and usually not that interested but I started reading and it was compelling.. read it all and thougth wow...
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Even more so when we watched the interview a while back. She and her ATA colleagues were up until recent years the forgotten ones without whom the manpower challenges the RAF faced during the war would have made the mastery of the skies that much harder if not impossible???
 
Absolutely incredible lady. I have seen several programmes which featured her, and I was struck by her intelligence and wit. She was still driving to the shops at 101, and I bet she was safer than 90% of the other drivers on the roads.
 
RIP :(
 
What an amazing lady. You would never have guessed to look at her!!

On a related note, there are I believe only 8 Battle of Britain pilots still alive, not long until the WW2 generation is no more.
 
All agreed. Some one was singing the "Where are the clouds"? song at my Folk club tonight and it made me think of her and her phrase about freedom, "Playing with the clouds". The dust in my eye got noticed and explaining to one person gets over herd by others, and so her story is spread.

Clear skys Mary, and thanks.
 
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