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  • This guy deserved the BMF wallet

    Shamelessly stolen text:
    1. WW2 Fighter pilot - check
    2. Shot down behind enemy lines - check
    3. Avoided execution THREE times (once by dodging grenades, once by running from firing squad, and once by BS'ing out of it) - check
    4. Jumped from train, injured, to escape - check
    5. Climbed mountains to get home - check
    6. Continued flying to war's end - check
    7. Given award simply for awesome escape - check
    8. Lived as singer songwriter (some songs w/ early Dr. Who writer) - check
    9. Toured US/mexico in VW bus - check
    10. Owned several charter cruise ships in the islands - check
    11. Started several island restaurants - check
    12. Started island resort - check
    13. Lived out life in islands entertaining to the end - check


    Flight Lieutenant Tony Snell, who has died aged 91, was shot down in his Spitfire over Sicily and escaped from a German firing squad. Recaptured, he leapt from a train and finally escaped over the Alps into neutral Switzerland.
    Last edited by GhostTX; 08-08-2013, 03:52 PM.
    "Self-government won't work without self-discipline." - Paul Harvey

  • #2
    Damn
    2014 GT
    2013 FX2 ecoboost

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    • #3
      After all the war-time stuff he went through, the rest was cake! RIP, Tony!

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