His name could get into the Guinness Record book. Not only because he survived the war after 44 bombing missions within Nazi Germany, but also because he again gave the “present” along with other veterans’ peer to celebrations for the 80th anniversary of the end of (Ve-day) in London on Thursday.
In his 103 years, British George Dan, a former bomber pilot, returned to the Westminster Abbey, not far from the Buckingham Palace, which he had been decorated during the war. At that time there were the deadly raids in the heart of the Third Reich, now a “tall emotional risk” ceremony with host.
“In 1941 I went to the Air Force to become a flying one. In June of that year, RAF sent me for air training to Canada, “George Dan had reported in 2020 in RES/EIA.
How did it survive of the 44 dangerous missions
“In July 1942 I made my first mission with Halifax bombers and later I was placed on Mosquito. I flew to 30 companies with bombers “Halifax” and 14 with “Moskito”, a total of 44 missions, “he said.
Of all the missions he cannot forget is in Penemund, the Baltic to the V1 and V2 missile launches. The raid took place at night with full moon on the night of August 17, 1943.
“I was in the first wave of bombers who attacked the three,” he said to the Athens-Macedonian News Agency. “Two flocks of bombers in each wave … I was in the first wave and we had no trouble from German nightly persecution … We were lucky,” he emphasized.
The delivery of the legendary Spitfire to Greeks
In 1947 just before being demobilized by RAF it will.
It was one of the 77 aircraft given by the British government to reorganize the Hellenic Air Force.
The plane was rebuilt in 2020 and flying today to national anniversaries, and its museum in Tatoi is adorned.
