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War Hero's MG is coming up for auction

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Brings back memories.... I read Douglas Bader's biography when I was a kid. I remember him describing how he left his artificial limb in the Plane when he had to bail out; a replacement was dropped by parachute by the British.
He was quite a fighter pilot despite his handicap.
 
Gliderman8 said:
Brings back memories.... I read Douglas Bader's biography when I was a kid. I remember him describing how he left his artificial limb in the Plane when he had to bail out; a replacement was dropped by parachute by the British.
He was quite a fighter pilot despite his handicap.
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A replacement dropped by parachute by the British, I believe when Bader was in German custody in enemy territory. PJ
 
You are right Paul.
 
Bader's escapes saw the Germans threaten to take his prosthetics from him to keep him confined. Determined guy!
 
I just want to be able to re-create the first picture in the article - pipe, windscreen down, big dog at your side. Love it!
 
Wasn't the movie "Reach For The Sky" about him?

A local friend has a TA, though a 20-footer and not as nice as the car in the article. There were only 378 of them made.

[EDIT: correction, my friend has a TB. Only 378 made because the war stopped production. 1939.]
 
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"Reach For The Sly" was the title of a biography of Badar,and also of the movie with Kenneth Moore. Badar also wrote a book called "Fight For The Sky". I have all of them & have read the book several times. I think the books and the film are all still available. I expect the car will go for far more than the projections.
 
found a TA once in a shed just outside Belfast, looked like it had been stored for years, tried to find who owned it to no avail, now mind you I would have only been about 13 at the time.
 
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