Hello everybody,
I think you will all love this one like I do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2EdQX- ... ture=share
I only wish I could have been there a couple of hours with them ... or even more than that ...
Bye Antonio
This is your life BBC - Baron and Esmond Knight
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This is your life BBC - Baron and Esmond Knight
In order to honor a soldier, we have to tell the truth about what happened over there. The whole, hard, cold truth. And until we do that, we dishonor her and every soldier who died, who gave their life for their country. ( Courage Under Fire )
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Re: This is your life BBC - Baron and Esmond Knight
Thank for sharing that Antonio! Great to see in reality what the Baron wrote about in his book.
Qui invidet minor est - He who envies is the lesser man
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Re: This is your life BBC - Baron and Esmond Knight
... Wasn't Esmond killed in 1942... ?paulcadogan wrote:Thank for sharing that Antonio! Great to see in reality what the Baron wrote about in his book.
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Hello everybody,
@ Alecsandros,
NO, he was hurt and became temporary blind, ... I think his face hit the binocular he was using.
http://www.esmondknight.org.uk/hislife08.htm
He survived the war, just like the Baron and became friends.
@ Paul Cadogan,
I posted it because I think that it is always good to show the real example on what after the war became in many cases the relation among enemies during war time.
Having met a lot of survivors both sides, I saw this feeling on them several times personally.
This is what history should teach, ... that war is a bad thing and we are all human at the end, ... with feelings and personal relations.
Bye Antonio
@ Alecsandros,
NO, he was hurt and became temporary blind, ... I think his face hit the binocular he was using.
http://www.esmondknight.org.uk/hislife08.htm
He survived the war, just like the Baron and became friends.
@ Paul Cadogan,
I posted it because I think that it is always good to show the real example on what after the war became in many cases the relation among enemies during war time.
Having met a lot of survivors both sides, I saw this feeling on them several times personally.
This is what history should teach, ... that war is a bad thing and we are all human at the end, ... with feelings and personal relations.
Bye Antonio
In order to honor a soldier, we have to tell the truth about what happened over there. The whole, hard, cold truth. And until we do that, we dishonor her and every soldier who died, who gave their life for their country. ( Courage Under Fire )
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Re: This is your life BBC - Baron and Esmond Knight
.....plus remember he played the role of Captain Leach in "Sink the Bismarck".alecsandros wrote:... Wasn't Esmond killed in 1942... ?
@ Antonio:
Yes...absolutely!
Qui invidet minor est - He who envies is the lesser man
Re: This is your life BBC - Baron and Esmond Knight
IIRC, he suffered splinter wounds that blinded him in both eyes. He regained partial sight in the other after an operation (Post war?).Antonio Bonomi wrote:Hello everybody,
@ Alecsandros,
NO, he was hurt and became temporary blind, ... I think his face hit the binocular he was using.
http://www.esmondknight.org.uk/hislife08.htm
He survived the war, just like the Baron and became friends.
@ Paul Cadogan,
I posted it because I think that it is always good to show the real example on what after the war became in many cases the relation among enemies during war time.
Having met a lot of survivors both sides, I saw this feeling on them several times personally.
This is what history should teach, ... that war is a bad thing and we are all human at the end, ... with feelings and personal relations.
Bye Antonio
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Re: This is your life BBC - Baron and Esmond Knight
Sorry,dunmunro wrote: IIRC, he suffered splinter wounds that blinded him in both eyes. He regained partial sight in the other after an operation (Post war?).
I made the confusion with Eugene Esmonde
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Esm ... ime_career
the pilot that led the Swordfish attack from Victorious...
He was shot down and killed during the Channel Dash, while attempting to torpedo Prinz Eugen.