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  1. The Kindness of Strangers WW2 Solo Campaign: Chapter 11 - Falcons and eagles

    [I][B]June 7, 1940[/B][/I]

    [I]They were eager to know the story. Kyte served drinks and then he sat himself in a green sofa expecting me to begin. I looked at Joachim. He smiled and shrugged his shoulders. I looked at the other ones, Eris, James, Nick, Dave, Mike and Johnny and I felt a strange comradeship, even if to some of them I was but a stranger a few days ago. "Go on, Andrzej", said Nick, anxious for me to start. "Well... We were now in the middle of the Summer ...
  2. The Kindness of Strangers WW2 Solo Campaign: Chapter 10 - Upper Hand

    [I][B]June 3, 1940[/B][/I]

    [I]I sat on the sofa after debriefing. Joachim served us all drinks. Eris looked down and we all sipped our drinks silently. After a while, Kyte looked a few moments to his watch. "If they didn't land in another airstrip, the're already out of petrol..." Joachim went out and we sat there waiting. We knew that he went out to call HQ to know what happened to Red and Yellow sections. Eris kept looking down. "If you ever", started Kyte sofly, ...
  3. Wings of War and Glory - Chapter 9: Nieuport 11

    [B][I]January 17, 1916[/I][/B]

    [I]Finally the weather opened enough for us to fly. Having lost my plane I had to take another one. The weather was so cold that only my plane´s engine started. I went alone to make a sweep over the front. When I first saw them I thought that a scout was escorting a photo recon biplane. I was wrong. At the time I wasn't aware but this was the newest French scout. Le Nieuport Bebe." [/I]

    They weren't immediately aware of me.
    ...
  4. The Kindness of Strangers - Chapter 7 - A Myth That Was True

    [B][I]June 4, 1940[/I][/B]

    [I]"So... you are saying that there were P-40's in France in June?" "Yes. P-40's B. I've flown one." "No way! The French Armée de l'Air only had P-36's Hawks from the Americans." "Well... They had a few P-40's and never learned that they had them." "Good Lord. One more of your stories, Joaquim?!" "Yes, Dave, one more. And I have a Pole friend... if he's still alive... who can confirm it. He flew one ...
  5. Wings of War and Glory - Interlude 5: Dangerous Waltz

    [B][I]January 3, 1916[/I][/B]

    "What are you doing, you stupid man?!" "Listening to a waltz, Rita?!" "I'm not talking about this moment!" "What are you talking about, then?" "About being shot down!" "I've crash-landed, i wasn't shot down... Do you want to dance?" "No! Call it what you want. You've been very sick and in the next flight you take you're shot down! Isn't that stupid?" "Crash-landed, Rita. Don't ...
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