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<blockquote data-quote="emilioteles" data-source="post: 1822311" data-attributes="member: 3144"><img src="https://scontent-mia1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/10352256_727358624060599_3075956423699567407_n.png?oh=6f8df9752aa09d6d50da02b126c419ef&amp;oe=5628E223" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Pilot Officer Albert Gerald Lewis DFC (aged 22) in his Hawker Hurricane Mk.1 (VY-R) P2923 with 85 Squadron RAF at Castle Camps, RAF Debden's satellite airfield in Cambridgeshire. July 1940.<a href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/hawkerhurricane" target="_blank">#HawkerHurricane</a>Albert Gerald Lewis (10 April 1918 - 14 December 1982) was a South African born fighter ace during the war, who was featured in a 'Life' magazine article about the Battle of Britain.Lewis received his Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) in July 1940 and his citation read that during the Battle of France on May the 19th, he shot down five enemy aircraft before he himself was shot down over Lille.He then joined No.249 Squadron RAF on the 15th of September 1940. One the same day he shot down a Heinkel He.111 and on the 18th, a Messerschmitt Bf. 109 (his twelfth confirmed enemy aircraft).On the 27th of September he claimed 6 kills (three Bf 109s, two Bf 110s and a Ju 88), two probables and one damaged. While on a patrol on the 28th of September he was shot down and he baled out of his Hurricane over Faversham and was taken to Faversham Cottage Hospital, blind for two weeks, and with shrapnel in his legs with severe burns on the face, throat, hands and legs.He returned to the Squadron in December, 1940, having been promoted Flight Lieutenant on the 29th of November. He was flying by the 17th of January 1941, and became &quot;A&quot; Flight Commander, and was awarded a bar to the DFC.His final tally was 18 kills.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="emilioteles, post: 1822311, member: 3144"] [IMG]https://scontent-mia1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/10352256_727358624060599_3075956423699567407_n.png?oh=6f8df9752aa09d6d50da02b126c419ef&oe=5628E223[/IMG] Pilot Officer Albert Gerald Lewis DFC (aged 22) in his Hawker Hurricane Mk.1 (VY-R) P2923 with 85 Squadron RAF at Castle Camps, RAF Debden's satellite airfield in Cambridgeshire. July 1940.[URL='https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/hawkerhurricane']#HawkerHurricane[/URL] Albert Gerald Lewis (10 April 1918 - 14 December 1982) was a South African born fighter ace during the war, who was featured in a 'Life' magazine article about the Battle of Britain. Lewis received his Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) in July 1940 and his citation read that during the Battle of France on May the 19th, he shot down five enemy aircraft before he himself was shot down over Lille. He then joined No.249 Squadron RAF on the 15th of September 1940. One the same day he shot down a Heinkel He.111 and on the 18th, a Messerschmitt Bf. 109 (his twelfth confirmed enemy aircraft). On the 27th of September he claimed 6 kills (three Bf 109s, two Bf 110s and a Ju 88), two probables and one damaged. While on a patrol on the 28th of September he was shot down and he baled out of his Hurricane over Faversham and was taken to Faversham Cottage Hospital, blind for two weeks, and with shrapnel in his legs with severe burns on the face, throat, hands and legs. He returned to the Squadron in December, 1940, having been promoted Flight Lieutenant on the 29th of November. He was flying by the 17th of January 1941, and became "A" Flight Commander, and was awarded a bar to the DFC. His final tally was 18 kills. [/QUOTE]

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Guerra desarrollada entre Argentina y el Reino Unido en 1982