Achtung! I Spent My Childhood Shooting Imaginary Germans. Today, It Would Be Me for the Firing Squad [Scot Region]
Daily Mail › September 25, 2009
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MY SCHOOLMATES and I spent much of our childhood killing Germans and Japanese.
Imaginary ones, I hasten to say. We belonged to the first post- war generation and were completely obsessed by the hostilities in which most of our parents had taken part.See the full content of this document
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Achtung! I Spent My Childhood Shooting Imaginary Germans. Today, It Would Be Me for the Firing Squad [Scot Region]
We would leap from bed to bed in the dormitories, arms outstretched to represent the wings of Spitfires or Hurricanes, shouting 'neeooowwww ducker-ducker-ducker' (the 'duckers' were machine-gun fire), as we swooped on the poor boy who'd drawn the short straw as the Messerschmitt pilot.
One of us would be Johnnie Johnson, another Douglas Bader. I liked to be the f...See the full content of this document
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