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Chapter 13 - Their
Finest Hour, continued
By mid-morning, 609 Squadron had returned to
Middle Wallop. Pilots now lay on the grass or slouched in deck
chairs. Eugene Tobin dozed, trying to make up for just twenty
minutes' sleep the previous night. Yesterday had been
stormy, with heavy thunder and cloud cover. But this Sunday
morning, when Tobin should have been at Mass, the skies were
an ominous blue. It was 57 degrees, warm enough to roll up
shirtsleeves. A thin film of mist hung above the airfield,
but the sun would soon burn it off. At Chequers, Winston Churchill
also noted the weather and decided to pay Air Vice-Marshal
Park a visit. He was soon speeding towards Uxbridge, west of
London, with his armed bodyguard; his private secretary, John
Martin; and his wife, Clementine. The car's police bell
It was around 9:30 a.m. at Cormeilles-en-Vexin,
the home base of Dornier bomber unit KG 76. Glum-looking air
crews streamed out of debriefing rooms. Watching them leave
was a thirty-eight-year-old Bavarian, Alois Lindmayr, leader
of the KG 76's III Group: a cool-headed veteran of devastating
raids on RAF Kenley and Biggin Hill. He had just briefed his
men on that day's mission. The news that KG 76 was to
have the great honor of leading the Luftwaffe across the Channel
had not been received with stamping feet and applause.
Earlier that morning, Field Marshal Kesselring
had ordered Lindmayr to fly at the spearhead of the greatest
strike force ever sent against a civilian target—more
than 1,120 German aircraft. Although Lindmayr had few experienced
pilots at hand, having lost eleven bombers out of thirty in
the last fortnight, he had been able to cobble together the
required number of planes by combining the remnants of his
III Group with I Group, an even more heavily battered unit.
Lindmayr's men were soon clambering aboard
their Dornier 17 bombers. Among them were Sergeant Rolf Heitsch
and his crew of three. Each man had a pistol strapped to his
belt. If he found himself trapped in his burning plane, unable
to bail out, he could put the Mauser to his temple and pull
the trigger.
The Dornier was nicknamed the "Flying Pencil" by
RAF pilots, for whom its long slim body was easy prey. With
no armor plating, underpowered, and capable of carrying at
most 2,200 pounds of bombs, it was also called a "Flying
Coffin" by some former crews now in British POW camps
and French hospitals. It had started life, like so many of
the Luftwaffe's medium-range bombers, disguised as a
mail-carrier back in 1934, when every German aircraft was supposed
have a non-military function. By now, it was clearly obsolete
and yet one out of every four bombers sent over Britain was
a Dornier. The only two strengths Heitsch and his fellow pilots
found in the lumbering albatross were its reliability and capacity
to absorb large quantities of Tommy lead.
Radio operator Technical Sergeant Stephan Schmidt
made his way to the rear of the plane. He had been chosen to
operate a top-secret weapon when KG 76 inevitably clashed with
the Hurricanes and Spitfires that now flocked to greet the
fleet whenever it neared the English coastline. The new device
was in fact a flamethrower that had been borrowed from the
Wehrmacht and fitted to the rear fuselage. If it worked, it
would be fitted to other bombers.
Heitsch ran though his checks, and then the plane's
two 1,000 hp, nine-cylinder, Bramo 323P air-cooled engines
roared to life. With his left hand, Heitsch opened the throttles
and the Dornier sprang forward, its wings rocking as it picked
up speed on the uneven airfield. At 10:10 a.m. Heitsch felt
the Dornier leave the ground and set course for Cap Gris Nez.
It was not an auspicious beginning to the mission: because
of heavy cloud cover, ten minutes were lost trying to link
up with I Group. Back in England, it was around 10:30 a.m.
when Keith Park learned that Churchill was about to arrive
at the bunker: Fighter Command's Sector 11 operations
control room. Sure enough, Churchill and his party soon filed
in. Park greeted them and once again had to explain diplomatically
that the prime minister could not smoke inside the bunker.
Churchill grunted and then bit down on his unlit Cuban.
"I don't know whether anything will
happen today, sir," said Park. "At present all
is quiet."
Churchill and his party took their seats in the
gallery above a plotting table and several WAAFs.
Around 11 a.m., over the chalk cliffs of Cap
Gris Nez, Technical Sergeant Heitsch breathed a little easier.
He spotted his escorts above: Me-109s from Hans-Karl Mayer's
Ace of Spades and several squadrons from JG 3, who would stick
as close as possible to the Dorniers.
It was 11:04 a.m. in the bunker at Uxbridge.
Radar reports indicated that KG 76 and its escorts were stacking
up over Boulogne and Calais. Then a young WAAF put down her
knitting and walked calmly over to the plotting table and placed
a wooden block on it. The block indicated that at least thirty
bandits were heading towards England. A few minutes later,
two more blocks were on the plotting table.
"There appear to be many aircraft coming
in," said Churchill.
Park looked calm. "There'll be someone
there to meet them."
More blocks appeared on the plotting table.
"Northolt, Kenley, Debden," Park
called out.
Bulbs on panels covering a wall opposite the
gallery began to light up, indicating each squadron's
status: at readiness, scrambled, or engaged. More blocks appeared
on the table. There was now a palpable sense of crisis in the
sixty-foot square room, fifty feet below ground. At 11:20 a.m.,
Park ordered the rest of his squadrons into the air and told
10 Group to alert Middle Wallop. A few minutes later, 609 Squadron
was scrambled.
Eugene Tobin tucked maps into his boots and followed
several other pilots out of the dispersal hut at Middle Wallop.
Shorty Keough did the same, two cushions under his arm, and
was soon being helped up onto the wing of his Spitfire by his
ground crew. Andy Mamedoff climbed into his cockpit and was
quickly strapped into his safety harness.
At 11:30 a.m., 609 reached twenty thousand feet,
the best performance altitude for the Spitfire. Tobin checked
that his oxygen supply was working. London was below, terraced
housing stretching far into the distance, skirting the Thames.
Barrage balloons hung like giant gray sausages over the charred
East End.
"Climb to twenty-five thousand and maintain
Back at the Uxbridge bunker, Winston Churchill
looked with mounting concern at the wall of bulbs facing him.
All but a few of the bulbs now glowed, indicating that most
of Fighter Command was in the air or intercepting the enemy.
It was around midday when the Dorniers of KG
76, led by Alois Lindmayr, began a "flak waltz," zig-zagging
to avoid anti-aircraft fire, as they crossed over the southern
outskirts of London. In a few minutes, they would begin their
bombing runs. Then the flak stopped and Hurricanes and Spitfires
began to attack. At the rear of the Dornier formation were
Rolf Heitsch and his crew. In his headset, Heitsch suddenly
heard the excited voice of Stephan Schmidt, who was manning
the flamethrower. A Hurricane was fast closing in on them from
astern. At four hundred yards, its pilot let rip. Bullets tore
into the Dornier. Schmidt grabbed the flamethrower and sent
a giant squirt of burning gasoline towards the Hurricane. The
jet of flame fell far short, but Schmidt succeeded in spraying
some unlit oil over the British fighter's windscreen,
forcing its pilot to push its nose down, duck below the Dornier
and pull away. Rolf Heitsch flew on, now straggling dangerously
behind the rest of KG 76.
Meanwhile, twenty thousand feet above central
London, Pilot Officer Andy Mamedoff looked around and up, watching
for bandits. Once again, he was weaving back and forth, the
tail-end Charlie to 609's B Flight led by "Butch" MacArthur,
who had been in a particularly gloomy mood of late and so depressed
a week back that he could not eat. As Butch saw it, 609 and
the rest of Fighter Command had failed miserably to protect
the people of London from the Grim Reaper on September 7. Maybe
today 609 would have some success in keeping him at bay.
Eugene Tobin was as usual weaving behind Johnny "Dogs" Dundas
and his A Flight Leader, Frank Howell.
"Many, many bandits at four o'clock!" shouted
Tobin looked up and saw more than fifty 109s
from Hans-Karl Mayer's JG 53, around four thousand feet
"Okay, Charlie, come on in," Howell
called to Tobin.
Tobin glanced over his shoulder. Three bandits
were diving towards them.
"Danger, red section!" shouted Tobin. "Danger,
danger, danger!"
Howell heard him and broke fast to the right.
Tobin began a 360-degree turn, immediately feeling
the G-force. He lifted his feet to the G-stirrups and pressed
down. The blood returned to his head as he spotted 609's
Pilot Officer Geoffrey Gaunt climbing to his left, followed
by a furious Messerschmitt. Then Tobin was turning tighter
and tighter, pulling the stick as far over as he dared without
blacking out, holding the Spitfire in its life-saving arc.
The cockpit controls shook with the strain and his face contorted
as he struggled to stay conscious.
Tobin pulled his emergency boost. The engine
howled and he was kicked back in his seat. A Messerschmitt
flashed past at more than 400 mph. Then he was easing out of
the turn, head spinning as he searched the sky for bandits.
And there they were—more Me-109s. Tobin set out after
one of them. A black cross was soon in his crosshairs. He fired.
Smoke streamed from the German's motor. But before he
could fire again, the German disappeared in cloud cover. Tobin
broke to his left and began to climb, opening the throttle,
weaving back and forth violently behind Howell and Dundas at
around 275 mph, not caring now
whether he or his Spitfire could take the strain.
He had no time "for pretty tricks. The main thing was
to get where you could shoot . . . and then get where [they]
couldn't shoot at you. A neat barrel roll looks nice
from the ground and so does a wreath."
Tobin suddenly saw a 609 Spitfire and felt sick:
the plane was around two hundred yards away, out of control,
cockpit ablaze. It began to spin down trailing black smoke.
Then Tobin spotted Technical Sergeant Rolf Heitsch's
Dornier diving towards clouds. Again, he pushed his Spitfire
to its limit. She responded beautifully, like a thoroughbred
in peak form. He was still a long way off but decided to fire
before he lost the ugly gray bandit to the clouds. His tracers
streaked through the sky and, to his delight, struck the bomber's
left engine.
Heitsch looked out of his cockpit and saw his
left propeller stop spinning. He knew the cloud cover would
not last for long. Even if he could escape Tobin, could he
then nurse the stricken bomber back across the dreaded Channel,
or should he try to land? Now white smoke was billowing from
his other engine. Tobin had hit the glycol tank or a radiator.
Then 609's Johnny "Dogs" Dundas
suddenly appeared as if from nowhere—he had climbed almost
vertically below the bomber—and also let rip. More pieces
flew off Heitsch's plane. Then both Tobin and Dundas
were "pressing the tit," sending streams of bullets
through the sky. Stephan Schmidt, manning the flamethrower,
was hit badly in the chest. He dropped the flamethrower and
slumped to floor.
Heitsch somehow flew on. He had trained as a
doctor before the war and knew that to stand a chance of saving
Schmidt from bleeding to death he would need to land as soon
as possible. Meanwhile, Tobin was lining up for the kill. "I
moved the ship over a bit so that his left wing was right in
the bull's eye and sawed off his aileron," he recalled. "Part
of the wing fluttered off and he disappeared into the cloud." A
few seconds later, he reappeared. Any moment now it would surely
be all over, but seeing that Heitsch's plane was critically
damaged Tobin and Dundas chose not to press on with their attack. "[Heitsch]
came down after a while," recalled Tobin, "just
from sheer weight of lead, but we didn't knock him apart."
Heitsch spotted a field near the village of Shoreham
and told his surviving crew to brace themselves for a forced
landing. With great skill, he brought the stricken bomber down,
narrowly avoiding power lines. The Dornier crashed wheels up
with an awful screech of metal and breaking propellers and
skidded to a sudden halt, just missing several cows. Heitsch
threw off his harness, stood up, and struggled furiously to
open an escape hatch.
A few hundred feet above, Tobin circled the crash
site. He opened his cockpit and slid back the hood. He could
see Heitsch and another of his crew climbing out of the Dornier,
carefully pulling the badly wounded Schmidt after them. Tobin
waved his handkerchief, signaling to a growing group of hop
pickers to stay back from the German plane. "A mile away,
a Spitfire and a Hurricane were down in the same field," he
recalled. "But the white billowy folds of two parachutes
nearby showed that their pilots were safe. Crashed planes were
a dime a dozen. Wherever you looked between London and the
coast, there were cracked-up airplanes."
White tracer flashed past Tobin. He pulled his
stick back and climbed. Then he realized that the tracer had
been meant not for him but for another Spitfire, dueling with
an Me-109 two thousand feet above him. "It was quite
a show," remembered Tobin. "Once in a while the
German would loose off with the two cannons in his wings and
they would blink like a couple of rabbit's eyes. Cute
as can be until one of the shells screams past your cowling.
Then you move out of the way fast, just as I did. By the time
I climbed above the two fighting planes, the Spitfire had sent
the German down in a long sickening spin and the air was clear
of enemy planes."
Tobin was suddenly alone. He checked his fuel
gauge—just seven gallons left. It was around 12:20 p.m.
After refueling at Biggin Hill, he flew back towards Middle
Wallop. The airfield soon appeared below and he began his approach,
but then a truck suddenly emerged from behind a hangar into
his landing path. It was too late to climb. Tobin heard one
of his wheels skim the vehicle and jolt back into the fuselage. "Now
I couldn't even make a belly landing, which is the safest
thing to do if your landing gear goes haywire. I circled the
field a couple of times and then came in to land on the one
wheel with the other wing up. It was a pretty tricky business,
but my luck held. As the wheel touched the ground, the ship
wobbled for an instant and then I felt the other wheel flop
down from the impact. I eased the stick and she settled down
Elated, Tobin taxied towards the dispersal hut.
A few minutes later he was jumping down to the oil-stained
grass and heading towards an animated group of his fellow pilots.
But then one of his ground crew came over with bad news: his
plane needed to be serviced and there was no other available,
which meant he was effectively grounded for the rest of the
day. Bitterly frustrated, Tobin joined his fellow pilots for
lunch. They were particularly pleased that fighter command
had scrambled them early enough and had then sent them high
enough to avoid being bounced.
Back in Shoreham, Kent, the local Home Guard
was soon on the scene and arresting the crew of Tobin's
downed Dornier. Technical Sergeant Sauter had been badly wounded
in the ankle and was taken to Maidstone Hospital. Technical
Sergeants Rolf Heitsch and Pfeiffer, the bomber's observer,
were escorted to the nearest pub. Someone bought the two trembling
German airmen a couple of brandies to calm their nerves. Then
they were driven to Seven Oaks Police Station. Their other
comrade, Technical Sergeant Stephan Schmidt, did not go with
them. He was pronounced dead on arrival at Seven Oaks Hospital,
his chest torn apart. According to one subsequent news report,
the hospital also admitted a hop picker with a bullet wound
in the leg. Allegedly, one of two circling Spitfires—either
Dundas or Tobin—had opened fire on the grounded bomber
and hit the man in the leg.
Meanwhile, Heitsch's fellow KG 76 pilots
struggled back across the unforgiving Channel. Just fifteen
of Alois Lindmayr's Dorniers were still in formation.
Ten were missing. It was a pitiful sight: the "flying
pencils" limping across the dark waters, full of dead
and wounded, cockpits holed and smeared with blood, engines
coughing, props flailing, gashed fuselages letting in gushes
of freezing salty air, white glycol smoke trailing several
as if they were signaling surrender.
Many of the surviving pilots were resentful and
angry. Had Göring not claimed that the RAF had just fifty
Spitfires left, that it would take just a few days in early
September to finish the Lords off? The chilling truth was that
the Lords were stronger than ever and better organized, attacking
from higher than before, out of the sun. The change of targets
from airfields to London had been a disastrous mistake, allowing
them time to recover. They had been out for the count. Now
they were surely ahead on points. Alois Lindmayr had only to
glance out his cockpit to see how they had won this round.
Very soon, another round would begin. Kesselring
had gathered another massive force for an afternoon attack
on the capital: one hundred fifty bombers escorted by three
times as many fighters. Once again, the bombers would simply
be bait to draw up Park's squadrons so that the Luftwaffe
could then tear them apart, thereby dealing Fighter Command
the death blow, or so Göring hoped. Among the flocks of
Messerschmitts would be two of the most lethal Jagdwaffe units,
JG 54 and JG 26, led by an increasingly ill-tempered Adolf
Just a few days ago, Galland had been forced
to stand between his two main rivals, Mölders and Helmut
Wick, and listen as Göring had yet again upbraided him
over his Jagdwaffe's lack of aggression. "The bombers
are more important than a fighter pilot's record of kills," Göring
had complained. "Your job is to protect them and each
time you fall down on it." Galland had defended his men
but Göring had dismissively ignored him. Then Göring
had asked what the Group commanders needed. Werner Mölders
had said he would like as many Me-109E-4/N planes as possible.
Their new engines would allow JG 51 to outperform the Spitfire.
Göring had begun to walk away when he had suddenly turned
around and looked at Galland. "And you?" Galland
had looked straight into Göring's bright blue eyes. "I'd
like some Spitfires." Göring had sighed, his cheeks
reddening with anger, and walked off.
It was now early afternoon on September 15 as
Galland made his way towards his Messerschmitt at Caffiers,
black Havana clenched between his lips, wrapping a yellow scarf
around his neck. Yet again, he was suffering from "throat-ache." He
knew that Werner Mölders would also be flying later this
afternoon, also looking to add another stripe to the thirtyseven
carefully painted onto his tail fin. Galland was now just five
kills behind. But at the rate Mölders was taking down
planes, it wouldn't take long for him to hit forty and
then he, not Galland, would be off to have tea with the Führer
at the Chancellery, his beaming, bony face splashed across
the front pages, the Oak Leaves—added to his Knight's
Cross— clear for everyone to see.
At 1:45 p.m., back in the bunker in Uxbridge,
a young WAAF placed a marker on the plotting table. Several
more soon followed. From the gallery, Winston Churchill again
watched intently as Park once more marshaled his forces, scrambling
several squadrons. Gambling that the Germans were all headed
towards London, just as on September 7, Park decided not to
intercept until Kesselring's armada had reached its most
vulnerable position: the big turn over London. By then, the
German pilots would be getting nervous, glancing at their fuel
gauges, able to fight for only a few minutes at the limit of
the Me-109's range.
Luck was on Park's side. The German bombers
were forced to circle over Maidstone because they missed their
rendezvous with their escorts. From Maidstone, it was sixty
miles to London: a heart-pounding journey now dubbed the racecourse
by many a rattled German pilot. That afternoon, it took the
bombers and their escorts thirty very long minutes, more than
enough time for Park to direct his forces towards them. It
was 2:15 p.m. when the first two squadrons intercepted.
"Mitor and Gannic squadrons, tally-ho,
Twenty-seven British fighters dived out of the
sun into Kesselring's armada of four hundred fifty planes.
"Achtung, Spitfeuer!"
Churchill's few had the sun and height
on their side, and some had learned how to fight like Galland's
hunting packs—a screaming dive, with the target in sights
and guns blazing, and then break away in a flash. Minute by
minute, more RAF squadrons followed. Soon, the bright blue
sky was scarred by tracer bursts and the oily smoke of burning
At Middle Wallop, the telephone rang. Eugene
Tobin watched in frustration as Shorty grabbed his two cushions
and then sprinted with Andy Mamedoff and the rest of 609 towards
Spitfires waiting close by, their engines warm.
Meanwhile, Göring's bombers lumbered
on. But not for long: over the East End, thirteen more RAF
squadrons pounced on them, ripping several to shreds in seconds
as pilots literally lined up to wait their turn to open fire.
The formations finally broke up and the German pilots then
turned tail, dropped their loads over leafy suburbs, and began
the desperate journey back to France. One in four would not
make it home.
High over London, meanwhile, JG 26's Adolf
Galland was on the hunt once again. He had only a few minutes
of fuel left before he would have to turn back for France.
Suddenly, he spotted 310 Hurricane Squadron, tightly bunched
below, cockpits glinting in the sun.
"I dove from about [2,500 feet] above them,
approached at high speed," recalled Galland, "and
fired at the far left aircraft in the rear flight, continuing
fire until point-blank range. Finally, large pieces of metal
flew off the Hurricane. As I shot past this aircraft, I found
myself in the middle of the enemy squadron, which was flying
in stepped formation. I immediately attacked the right-hand
aircraft of the leading flight of three. Again, metal panels
broke off; the aircraft nosed over and dove earthward, ablaze.
The remaining English pilots were so startled that none as
much as attempted to get on my tail; rather, the entire formation
scattered and dove away. Two parachutes appeared about [1,600
feet] below our formation."
In just ten seconds, Adolf Galland had added
another two stripes to his tail fin. Now, if Mölders had
not scored, he was only three behind. At this rate, with a
little luck, he could make up the difference in just a few
days. Never one to linger after a kill, Galland then dived
away from the mêlée, ordering his squadron to
follow him back to Caffiers before their red lights started
to flicker. There was no need to remind them of what might
happen if they dawdled for even a minute. Not long back, JG
26 had lost twelve planes on one sortie alone when their fuel
ran out. It was now 2:35 p.m. in the bunker in Uxbridge. Winston
Churchill noticed that Park was standing stock still, unusually
tense. The reason became clear when Churchill looked at the
wall of bulbs. Every one was glowing red, indicating that all
of Fighter Command was now engaged.
"What other reserves have we?" Churchill
Park turned around.
"We have none."
Churchill looked grave, and for good reason. "The
odds were great," he recalled, "our margins small;
the stakes infinite."
But for 609, at least, the odds were for once
very much on their side. To intercept the fleeing bombers,
Squadron Leader Darley had led both A and B Flights away from
London to the southeast. Suddenly, as 609 neared the coast,
two battered formations of Dorniers were spotted. The bombers
were a long way off and diving at maximum speed, their pilots
trying to get as low as possible and then skim unnoticed across
the choppy waves back to France.
Andy Mamedoff scoured the skies. Only a few German
fighters were flying escort. Then he heard Darley order 609
to give chase. Throttles open, the West Riding Squadron gladly
obliged, soon fixing onto two stragglers.
Shorty was seated on his two pillows, flying
as wingman to Green Section's leader, Pilot Officer Michael
"Green Section, No. 1 Attack, go!" shouted
Shorty latched onto one of the stragglers, a
Dornier from KG 2. "I followed Green 1 [Appleby] into
attack on [the Dornier]," he reported, "and attacked
from quarter and then astern." Satisfied that the bomber
was done for, he broke away and dived through the clouds. Emerging
from them, he could not find Green Section and decided to return
to Middle Wallop. The Dornier pilot somehow kept his plane
in the air and turned back for England, where he crash-landed
ten minutes later in a field at Eighteen Pounder Farm, near
the historic town of Hastings, at 3:15 p.m. Hastings had been
the scene of Britain's last defeat at the hands of an
invader, almost a thousand years before, in 1066.
Meanwhile, Andy Mamedoff and several other 609
pilots tore chunks out of the other straggler like a pack of
ravenous wolves. "Everybody in B Flight was absolutely
determined to have a squirt at the Hun," recalled 609's
David Crook, "and as a result there was a mad scramble
in which people cut across in front of each other and fired
wildly . . . regardless of the fact that the air was full of
Spitfires." Mamedoff's flight leader, Frank Howell,
saw two German crew members throw packets of marker dye into
the Channel and then bail out. Mamedoff and another pilot had
finished off the plane "with the concentrated fire of
their sixteen machine guns. They actually sawed one of the
Dornier's wings off before she crashed. Andy was particularly
pleased about this because it meant that for a change he was
giving something instead of taking it. His back was still sore
from the cannon shell."
The Canadian Keith Ogilvie had earlier that day
shot a Heinkel in half, the tail end landing near a pub in
Pimlico in London "to the great comfort and joy of the
patrons." Now he watched one of the Dornier's crew
drift down in his parachute to the waters below. The German
splashed down and "waved wildly," Ogilvie later
reported, "figuring I was going to machine-gun him."
Ogilvie did not. Instead, Johnny "Dogs" Dundas
and Frank Howell "took different bearings [with their
compasses] to enable the German to be rescued."
It was now 3:25 p.m. in Park's bunker at
Uxbridge. The bulbs on the wall facing Churchill began to change.
Some now indicated that squadrons had landed and were refueling.
One bulb showed that 213 at Tangmere, Billy Fiske's old
base, was ready to be scrambled again. There was a reserve
once more. The crisis had passed. Park and Churchill were visibly
"I am very glad, sir, you have seen this," Park
told Churchill, "Of course, during the last twenty minutes
we were so choked with informa- tion that we couldn't
handle it. This shows you the limitation of our present resources.
They have been strained far beyond their limits today."
Churchill and his party thanked Park and left
the bunker, bound for Chequers, where Churchill was soon taking
an afternoon nap. But it was not over yet. At Middle Wallop,
609 was scrambled yet again at around 5:40 p.m. It was Shorty's
fourth sprint to his Spitfire that day. 609 joined six other
squadrons above Southampton, but neither Fighter Command nor
the Luftwaffe had any luck. Thirteen Me-110s, skimming above
the Channel, missed their target, and Shorty and 609 were sent
too high to intercept.
Finally, September 15, 1940, drew to a close.
At Middle Wallop, the shadows cast by 609's Spitfires
stretched long across the grass. Dusk settled and then, darkness:
the cue for the pilots to be released at last and head to the
officers' mess for a bite to eat. At Chequers, Churchill
woke from his nap. John Martin, his private secretary, had
allowed him to sleep through the afternoon, knowing how emotionally
drained he had been by the bunker experience. Now Martin quickly
brought Churchill up-to-date on the day's developments. "This
had gone wrong here," recalled Churchill, "that
had been delayed there, an unsatisfactory answer had been received
from so-and-so; there had been bad sinkings in the Atlantic." Martin
paused. "However," he then said, "all is
redeemed by the air. We have shot down 183 for the loss of
under 40."
It was the best news Churchill had received all
Across the Channel, Field Marshal Albert Kesselring
picked up the telephone in his headquarters and put a call
through to the Reich Marshal aboard the sumptuous Asia. Göring
was not in the mood for bad news, having been served sedatives
by his nurse Christa Gormanns. "We cannot keep it up
like this," said Kesselring, "we are falling below
the standard of safety."
The Luftwaffe was in fact bleeding to death,
having now lost so many bombers that if Göring kept throwing
them at Fighter Command in daylight attacks there would soon
be none left. Kesselring's two attacks that day had failed
spectacularly. Fighter Command had not been wiped out. Instead
it had decimated the best of the Luftwaffe's bomber force.
As the sirens began to wail in London, signaling the onset
of yet another night of air-raids, the presses on Fleet Street
began to roll. Within twenty-four hours, the RAF's thrilling
success on September 15, would be front-page news throughout
the free world. In America, newspapers and radio would repeat
the RAF's inflated claim of 183 downed German planes,
prompting an outpouring of support and sympathy across the
nation for the plucky British. A full-page advertisement in
the New York Times would even call for immediate union with
Britain: the first round in the propaganda campaign aimed at
drawing America into the war had been won.
For 609 Squadron, the night was still young.
There was time to sink several pints before closing time in
the officers' mess or at a nearby pub. "The squadron
had shot down seven confirmed and five probables, which isn't
bad for a couple of hours' work," recalled Tobin. "My
friend Jeff [Gaunt] was the only one not there to share in
the victory."
On the surface, Tobin was his old Red self no
doubt, joking about taking down "yellow-nosed boys" and
tapping his wings with a grin and then saying ruefully "I
guess these are a one-way ticket pal," but inside he
was full of concern. Gaunt was not at the brass rail with him,
not asking about the film stars he knew, not creasing up at
his wisecracks, not singing along to Bing Crosby records. Then
Tobin started to feel better: "Hell, Tobin. Why don't
you quit your beefing? You'll live through it." David
Crook was also deeply troubled by Gaunt's disappearance. "We
had known each other all our lives and been at school together
for about twelve years," he recalled. "Only a week
or two before, I had said to him one evening that if anything
were to happen to him, I should feel rather responsible because
he was an only son, and I had persuaded him to join the RAF
with me."
Late that night, Tobin opened his diary. "Today
was the toughest day—we were in a terrific battle over
London," he jotted. "Geoffrey Gaunt, one of my
best friends, is missing. I saw a Spitfire during the fight
spinning down on fire. I sure hope it wasn't Jeff. If
it was—well, from now on he'll be flying in clearer
The following day, Göring raged at a conference
of his senior commanders about the Jagdwaffe's abysmal
failure yet again to protect his bombers.
"The fighters have failed!"
This time, Göring's rant fell on deaf
ears. The Jagdwaffe's many brave pilots, prime among
them JG 26's Adolf Galland, now deeply resented his insinuation
that they lacked guts. Göring was delusional, basing his
assertions on hopelessly inaccurate intelligence. For the first
time, there were mumblings on some airfields about the impossibility
of winning not just the battle but the war.
On September 17, Grand Admiral Erich Raeder recorded
in the official German War Diary: "The enemy air force
is by no means defeated. On the contrary, it shows increasing
activity." And then the all-important words: "The
Führer therefore decides to postpone Operation Sea Lion
indefinitely." Britain would not be invaded. Instead
she would be brought to her knees through terror bombing at
night and slow starvation by day. What was left of the Luftwaffe's
bomber fleet and the Atlantic U-boat packs would sooner or
later surely see to that. Besides, Hitler now nursed a greater
design than the humiliation of Winston Churchill—the
conquest of Soviet Russia. "I want colonies I can walk
to without getting my feet wet," he would soon tell one
of his confidantes.
Churchill's fighter boys did not yet know
that they had fought off the greatest threat to Britain's
survival in a millennium, and that they had done so by the
narrowest of margins. Only with the passage of time would it
become clear that on September 15, 1940—"the hardest
day"— they had made possible a far greater victory.
As an official RAF historian would write: "When the details
of the fighting grow dim, and the names of its heroes are forgotten,
men will still remember that civilisation was saved by a thousand
British boys."
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Earlier this summer, I expressed concern over the administration's inability to allocate proper resources for the community pool, thereby only opening the pool for six weeks and forcing neighborhood children to endure an urban heat wave. I stand firm in my opinion that this pool should have been opened on July 5 -- as were the pools in our neighboring communities -- for a full summer schedule.
Now, I am again concerned over an ordinance recently passed by the City Council, which imposes a $25-per-child-per-sport fee for participation in ALL of Hoboken's sports recreational activities. Participation was formerly free to all residents.
As an avid sports fan and former Little Leaguer, I am a firm believer in the positive health and social benefits that organized team activity teaches younger generations. These programs teach children teamwork, leadership, and commitment skills while keeping them off the streets after school.
It saddens me that this administration and City Council have chosen to place yet another back-door tax on Hoboken residents by switching recreational program expenses from being covered under a "tax" to a "fee." This action may wipe the costs from the city's budget, but will likely increase your budget. Thus, residents are again receiving less from the city while paying more in fees, all without a significant reduction in taxes as promised. If this is the administration's answer to increasing revenue streams for the city's coffers, then we are headed in the wrong direction.
I know that, to some people, $25 may not seem like a lot of money; but in tough economic times and for families with multiple children wishing to play several sports, this can become a real burden. (Though a provision for a conditional fee waiver was discussed, it did not make it into the final ordinance.)
The administration says they are trying to slim down our municipal budget, but if that's the case, why has the mayor just given two of her personal aides a $15,000 raise (a 25 percent increase) and a $12,000 raise (more than a 33 percent increase)? Cutting from one place just to increase spending in another does not equate to a budget reduction.
I have to question such a significant increase in salaries after less than a year on the job for these individuals, especially when these raises are equivalent to 1,080 Hoboken youths attending recreational programs. I personally think a thousand smiling faces are way better than two.
As a resident of the Fourth Ward, I question our appointed Councilman Michael Lenz's commitment to the children of this community. This is the second time we have heard nothing but his silence as it pertains to the children of the Fourth Ward -- first with the community pool and now with voting for this ordinance to place a fee on recreational sports.
In my mind, elected officials are responsible for providing adequate services to the community, as well as making sound financial decisions to support those services. Unfortunately, once again, neither one of these seem to have been accomplished.

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Everyone who has become president is sworn in by putting his hand on a Bible. No doubt some felt a slight burning sensation. At Obama's swearing in, he's using the same Bible used by Abraham Lincoln in 1861. At this site, get a closer look at the Lincoln Bible as well as other interesting Lincoln artifacts. By the way, our 16th president had excellent penmanship.
If there's one thing everyone remembers about an inauguration, it's the presidential address. No, they don't remember what he says so much as how long it took him to say it. OK, I'll give him a break, this is a historic occasion, so we'll let him spout all the inspirational words he needs to say. If you're feeling a little nostalgic, then head to this site for transcripts of every address made.
President Obama will take up residence in the ultimate work-from-home scenario. What the presidential home lacks in name originality, it makes up for in what's in it. Take a look at this site for all kinds of cool trivia about the White House. Clinton had a jogging track installed during his first term. However, he never got around to putting in that McDonald's.
I find it a little ironic that even though we Americans are renowned for our originality, that the only thing we could come up with as a name for the president's primary work area was the Oval Office. Well, when you find it in the "White House," I guess you shouldn't really expect much more imagination. Here's a fun site that looks at what the Oval Office might look like if Sarah Palin ever became president. Whether you're a Palin hater or Palin supporter, it's pretty funny. Love the "Maverick" poster on the wall.Check it out.
The Inaugural Ball has been a part of the swearing in of the president since George Washington. And this illustrious affair has been filled with the ritzy as well as the bizarre. For instance, the weather was so cold for Ulysses Grant's second inaugural ball that the caged decorative canaries froze. Yeah, everyone knows you should always keep your caged decorative canaries as warm as possible. At this site check out some historical trivia on past presidential balls.
As historic as the actual swearing in is, the Inaugural Parade is just as important to the day-long ceremonies. To give you an idea of just how special Americans think of Obama's inauguration, the 5,000 available parade tickets sold out in less than a minute. But consider for a moment the nightmare it must be to keep such an open area secure. How much of a nightmare? Just ask one of the 20,000 agents expected to be there to make sure everyone who walked in walks out.Check out this site for a little rundown on parade security.
The president has been sworn in on Jan. 20, but not for as long as you might think. Up until the 1930s, the president was sworn in almost four months after the election. The inauguration is steeped in as much history as the office of president itself. Check out some trivia about inaugural firsts and lasts. The first inaugural poet? None other than Robert Frost at John F. Kennedy's swearing in. The longest speech? Given by William Henry Harrison, it was 10,000 words. He died of pneumonia a month later. Let that be a lesson to all windbags.
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After speculation that DeJuan Blair was held out of his second summer league game due to contract negotiations, an article from EveryJoe.com published yesterday reports that the Spurs and Blair's agent, Happy Walters, have come to an agreement.
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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A recent Cleveland State graduate who has had his eye on the sloping Irishtown Bend for years used a research paper this spring to confirm his suspicions -- that the slope is slipping fast.
And, in some places, the changes seem to be accelerating.
Dave Biro Jr., a geological sciences major, used computer mapping to show that three areas around the bend on the Cuyahoga River have moved more than six feet -- or close to the height of Cleveland Browns lineman Joe Thomas -- in some spots from 2006 to 2010.
A previous U.S. Army Corps of Engineers report in 2009 found that there was little chance of the hill failing in a catastrophic way. The likely outcome was for a continual slow-motion landslide of a few inches to a few feet per year.
The engineers have not revisited their findings since the 2009 report, a spokesman said. The report estimated it would cost between $80 million and $219 million to repair or restructure the bend.
The Army Corps report focused primarily on the area closer to Riverbed Street, a buckling strip being invaded by vegetation and closed to traffic, that hugs the river.
Biro's measurements were primarily taken farther up the slope closer to West 25th Street.
The Army Corps didn't want to speculate on whether Biro's findings were relevant to its report.
Biro questions whether the Ohio City Farm at the top of the hill and all the soil movement and watering that comes with it will speed up the landslide process.
"I've been watching the movement of Franklin Avenue at the top of the slope for about a decade," the 29-year-old Ohio City resident said. "I saw it kept moving and moving, until recently, I noticed a big change, like year ago."
The city unsuccessfully applied in 2009 for federal grants to aid with stabilization of the slope.
Public officials and businesses have been trying to draw attention to the bend area. They say a collapse could block the river and halt production at places like the ArcelorMittal steel plant and put the public housing residents at the top of the hill in danger.
Recently, the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority said it was going to make the bend area a priority, and Cleveland officials have agreed to let the port authority take the lead on coordinating any effort to address the problems.
Biro used aerial images to identify and plot three specific areas on Riverbed Street and Franklin Avenues, midway down West 25th and near the Detroit-Superior (Veterans Memorial) Bridge. His measurements found that in some spots the movement has been more than two meters or more than six feet in a four-year period. He noted tension cracks in the pavement along West 25th from Detroit Avenue to Franklin that could also be evidence of movement.
For almost a decade the land around CMHA's Riverview Apartment was just grass. Before that other buildings were on the hill overlooking the river.
Last summer, a six-acre urban farm sprouted in the formerly grassy expanse. The farm employs refugees, people who are developmentally disabled and some Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority residents. Some of the produce is sold directly to the public from a small farm stand at the top of the hill or in weekly bundles people can purchase. Great Lakes Brewing Company also maintains a small plot.
"What the garden does is contribute to subsurface water movement. People are now putting more water into the ground on a more consistent basis," Biro said.
He said the water movement under the surface could trigger faster down-slope movement.
Ohio City Inc. Executive Director Eric Wobser said his organization supports heightened attention being paid to the area.
However, Wobser said he believes the farm uses drip irrigation to water the crops, which he's been told is less harmful erosion-wise. Wobser hopes that when the slope is repaired it can be done with more farming in mind, possibly on terraces sculpted down the slope.
Biro had help from several professors with his measurements and approach.
Professor Pete Clapham, who taught Biro's geomorphology class, said he thought his student's conclusion and concern were valid.
"Would I conclude from this that the Irishtown Bend area has a real problem?" Clapham said. "Yes. I don't think that anyone would question that this is an area where something needs to be done. This is another piece of evidence that supports that."
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Superb win for Bedford town away to Eastbourne beating them 3-0
Todays conference Results
Aldershot 0-0 Altrincham
Forest Green 2-1 Stafford Rangers
Gravesend 0-0 Dag & Red
Grays Athletic 0-1 Morecambe
Kidderminster 0-1 Crawley Town
Oxford Utd 2-0 York
Rushden & D'monds 1-2 Burton Albion
Southport 0-1 Exeter
Stevenage 2-1 Halifax
Tamworth 0-1 Cambridge Utd
Weymouth 2-1 St Albans
Also the 2nd Qualifying round of the FA Cup was today
Imagine the Metropolitan Police team reaching the first round of the FA Cup and beating a team like Bradford
The Brewers are up to 3rd in the Conference now after 5 straight wins. I would still be happy with a top 8 finish, and hopefully we'll be in division 3 within 5 years, but not just yet.
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Imagine the Metropolitan Police team reaching the first round of the FA Cup and beating a team like Bradford
If Chasetown could do i'm sure the Met Police could lol
lol... yes! Let's see if they can beat Molesey in the FA Trophy...
Crawley Town are off the bottom of the Conference table for the first time this season, after a 4-0 thrashing of Morecambe.
Thats great for Crawley to be off the bottom finally, just hope they survive, because last i heard their owners were not so keen to sell to a group who wants to take them over.
Bedford draw at home to Dorchester today 1-1.
Oxford gave Forest Green a good hammering away from home 5-1, surely no one will stop them.
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Oxford gave Forest Green a good hammering away from home 5-1, surely no one will stop them.
Dagenhan & Redbridge look good at the moment... imagine them in the Football League
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Dagenhan & Redbridge look good at the moment... imagine them in the Football League
I've got fond memories of Dagenham, touching Duane Darby's head! Those were the days, but now we're (Diamonds) back. To be honest, never really liked the Football league anyway! Non-league's so much better!
Dagenham were cheated out of that by Boston, they should have thrown Boston straight out.
Hey Archduke. Were you at the diamonds match against the mighty brewers last saturday?
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Hey Archduke. Were you at the diamonds match against the mighty brewers last saturday?
Oxford couldn't beat 10-man Kidderminster. It's now 4 points between them and Dagenham.
They didn't lose though but Dagenham look quite good this year, good win in front of the sky camera's for Woking last night.
Diamonds lose again; it's now 1 point from a possible 18. Not looking good.
I can tell you now that Kings Lynn will be southern premier league champions this year. After seeing them demolish us (Hemel) 5-1 last week they are a cut above the rest.
I would just like to give a huge big-up to my local non-league side, Bromley FC, who are riding high at the top of the Ryman Premier with 24 points, four points clear of second, and 7 clear of AFC Wimbledon.
No not good for Rushden, its a shame because they ain't that far from here and it was nice when they got all the way up to League One, but what did them was when they lost all that financial backing they had.
On Chewitt's post i have to say i quite fancied Kings Lynn at the start of the season they are looking strong and they are well supported.
On Bushboy's comment it is nice to see a team from Kent doing well.
Tomorrow we got the 3rd Qualifying round of the FA Cup, Bedford are home to Moor Green, my loyalities are divided on this one as Bedford is my local team but Moor Green is near where i was born.
Met Police to beat Fisher tonight
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Monday, January 14, 2013
Nativity scenes on display at Russellville Christian
The public is invited to attend Russellville Christian Church (Hwy. 35 in Russellville) to enjoy a display of over 150 nativity scenes. An open house to show the displays off will be held on Sunday, Dec. 16 from 2 until 5 p.m.
Russellville Christian Church members Tommy and Beth Graham provided pictures and compiled the history of how all of the members became involved with showing the nativity displays
Over the past few years several friends from the church visited Mepkin Abbey in Moncks Corner to see the beautiful and creative nativity scenes there on display. Beginning in 2011, they decided to display a similar scene at the church for people from the area to come see and enjoy.
The members of the congregation were asked to bring their personal nativity scenes from home so that everyone could see and enjoy them. Over 100 different sets were displayed last year. Some were handmade and all were beautiful.
Making a trip to Russellville Christian Church in Russellville will be well worth the time and you will not be disappointed!
SSE Recipients of Sharing the Dream Grant
Congratulations to the students and staff members of St. Stephen Elementary School, who are the proud recipients of the Sharing the Dream Grant.
The grant is sponsored by the MetLife Foundation and the National Association of Elementary School (NAESP), and was given in the amount of $5,000 for the 2012-1013 school year.
The grant is awarded on a competitive basis to assist principals in implementing innovative projects that create global classrooms where children and families can safely connect, exchange ideas and learn together. The funds will be used at SSE to bring in Hands on Science field trips for all third, fourth and fifth grade students throughout the school year.
Christmas Tree Walk Ribbon Winners
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Honorable Mention: Home Telcom, St. Stephen Christian Church
Third Place: Jamie Y. Driggers DMD
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First Place: Berkeley Florist
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Third Place: St. Stephen Garden Club
Second Place: Lake Moultrie Nursing Home
First Place: Albany International
Best of Show
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Molly Hatchet
What could be more useless in 2012 than a new Molly Hatchet studio album? Clearly the band knew. The correct answer is: a Molly Hatchet covers album. Look, I've got no real issues with Molly Hatchet. Every tractor pull and ribfest has to have their live band entertainment, and Foghat always needs a co-headliner. As far as recorded music though, I have to assume that Molly Hatchet recorded music stopped meaning anything to anyone around the time the replacement players started outnumbering the original members in the band. Still, they want to continue on, so God bless 'em.
REGRINDING THE AXES couldn't have been more useless a release if Tesla recorded it and called it REAL TO REEL 3. Here's a word of advice to all the bands out there from a simple nobody that's a music fan. The overwhelming majority of us DO NOT CARE who your influences were. Your influences are meant to be a one line thing we read in an interview...not a $15 bill we have to pay if we are catalog collectors. Another thing - cover songs are meant to be a single song tagged on the end of a great album. I don't care if you are a fan of Megadeth, Motley Crue or Molly Hatchet - it's a fact that 99.99% of the time fans hate covers albums and feel ripped off by their favorite bands when they put them out.
Now that you know where I'm coming from here, on to the review. "Freebird" cover - well, no shock that Molly Hatchet would be a. influenced, and b. covering a Lynyrd Skynyrd tune, is there? Decent cover, although it's almost a note for note replication of the original and, therefore, fairly useless to me. Hatchet's cover of George Thorogood and the Destroyers' "Bad To The Bone" is embarrassing. Hearing lead vocalist Phil McCormack struggle with the stuttering "B-B-B-B-Bad" parts is laughable; distracting enough to make me think that they should have scrapped the entire song. The problem with this whole release is that all the songs are so stereotypical of what you would expect from this that there's nothing fresh or interesting about it. Rolling Stones, ZZ Top, Allman Brothers, Thin Lizzy - all are what every band of this ilk was influenced by. Yet, all the songs they chose to cover were the most recognizable from each band, so there's no coolness factor there as well. Even further down the suck trail, every song feels almost note for note like the original. It's clear the band had NO intention of putting their own spin on this at all.
PITRIFF RATING - 8/100 - Unless I'm mistaken, there's not a single member of this band that's been there for every show and every album. It's hard to take them as anything but a cover band when there's no member that knows the entire history of the band. This is what a cover band does - they play cover songs. If four friends and I got together and recorded these songs, we'd have almost as much right to call ourselves Molly Hatchet. Interestingly, there's probably be as much interest in that release as there will be in this one. Molly Hatchet is no longer flirting with disaster. They are married to it. Terrible.
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Yes my profile is longer than most. No it does not mean I am one to write you a book on emails. It is a one time portfolio that for this one finger typer was not easy. It is long for a few reasons from I am hoping it will answer many questions to honesty to the simple fact I am trying to get the most compact version of me out with as much info so when we meet you already have a basic idea of me for THE PERSON YOU READ WILL ACTUALLY BE THE PERSON YOU MEET. Thats if you did read!! Now onto my rant.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder so to me it is not about the stigmatic good looks and magazine style body but it is about those features that just make us all stop in our tracks and do the double take. It is about those stunning features from eyes to smile to whatever that we are instinctively drawn to. You didn't come to my profile because of my writing. You saw that after my pics. So please don't try to tell me that our first meet is not based on physical attraction or mutual appreciation for what we both see as beautiful features. Let's be real please! Same goes for me:) Just being honest and real..
When we meet I will be myself and act as if we are old childhood friends whom only now realized that we have always had a crush:)
My tattoos are cultural not for vanity! I put dating/friends for everything starts with good friends, but yes I am looking for that one:).
Originally from Southern Africa. I return every year. Lived my childhood thru apartheid (google it before you ask) then feel free to ask anything! Bitten by or chased by or had as pets many wild African animals. Have two dogs and two cats of my own. My family has a livestock and produce farm near a resort town along the coast in Mozambique where I spend part of the year. I am also still a boy at heart. I have a glow in the dark galaxy on my ceiling that I get lost in at night. I AM RANDOM IN WHEN I GET UP FOR A ROADTRIP AND IN WHAT I SAY OUT OF THE BLUE. LIFE HAS BECOME FAR TOO SERIOUS AND COMPLICATED. SOMETIMES THINGS ARE JUST SAID TO MAKE YOU STOP AND WONDER WHAT THE **** DOES THAT MEAN,,, THEN LAUGH. It is also a good way to see how serious the other person views this short life...
Make it a point to take a trip to at least one different country every year. Meeting people of different cultures and backgrounds. In the last few years I have been to china, Belarus, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Thailand and Africa. Love life with a passion. Different foods the world has to offer. I am actually a very good cook. I can even cook a chicken among other things on the engine of my truck. No it does not get grease on it and if it does, time to get your engine checked! Love random a road trip in the mountains somewhere. I fancy it up as well. Not too often but it is done. When I am 80 years old, I want to look back at my life and say, I did that and I have no regrets. No matter what illness you have life is terminal! So since nothing I make or buy will go with me except me and my memories. Other interests in interest section. Family and friends are everything. My father is my idol!! I am extremely blunt and truthful. I am not shy to say it and say it how it is,,,would you rather a friend lie to you?
I am a primal male to the core! I see no need in hiding it or trying to insult your intelligence. All men are, they just lie for the most part! I have not lost my primal urge. Primal does not mean caveman!!! There is a big difference. It just means I read your body language, walk, smile,eyes, your flirt and so on then follow what my instinct, subconscious and what a man is hardwired to do:) I know what I want, what I smell and what I see. If it appeals to my instinctual inner male, I don't hide my intentions. This does not mean I disrespect either. I thrive off and follow the dying art of the LAWS OF ATTRACTION. The way you move your hips as you move closer, the way you move your hair to show your sensual neck, your stolen glances, the way your eyes flutter as you let us know you are interested and the unmistakable smile of yes, this woman likes what she sees and now prove to you why she should choose you!
There is much more to me but that you can ask and I will tell.
Ladies who wonder why guys put themselves beside a cool car, show muscle or holding a big fish they caught. Well we subconsciously do it because we instinctively have to show you ladies that we are a good catch....so look! Me catch big fish! Me feed you! You pick me! I do good? Primal ladies! Kind of like the well placed dresses, showing that beautiful sensual neck, amazing hips, low cut dresses, bathing suite shots, sports shots, just face shots, etc.! Sadly most of us humans have lost the instinctual way of just reading another human animal. A tip ladies from an honest blunt man. Dont ask your lady friends if your dresses, pics, interests, writeup, etc is good, bad, sexy, slutty, generic and so on for you are catering to a man on here. The way a man sees your profile or your pics or how he views that closeup shot with lovely cleavage or words like sex, cuddle, in your interests is totally different than your lady friends. You are catering to men ladies and we are two completely different species. We men are just hardwired to see an image/words and we go primal. So my point is to ask an ***hole, blunt, primal, honest man friend or a male stranger how he views your profile AND NO, NOT ME FOR WE ARE NOT FRIENDS YET. I AM NOT THAT STUPID TO THINK YOU WILL KNOW WHAT I ACTUALLY MEAN AS TO WHAT YOU ASSUME I MEANT. THIS IS STILL EMAIL/TEXT AND WORDS OR PERCEIVED CRITICISM FROM A STRANGE MAN WHOM IS ALREADY JUDGED AS ARROGANT IS NOT TAKEN WELL....Sorry but just being honest.


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Court Yard Hounds announce new album 'Amelita'
Emily Robison and Martie Maguire -- aka the Court Yard Hounds -- are returning with their sophomore set "Amelita" on July 16, via Columbia.
The sisters describe themselves as "ex-Dixie Chicks" in a release, also noting that "Amelita" will be a bit more fun than their first self-titled album, out in 2010.
"I think we've approached it differently because we felt like okay, we are a band. We aren't just two ex-Dixie Chicks anymore, we're a band and we like our sound and we're going to continue to do this and hopefully get better at it, and share something new this time around," said Maguire.
The first single from "Amelita" is "Sunshine," a co-write with Jonatha Brooke, Alex Dezen and Strayer. The album is produced by Jim Scott.
Robison's divorce in 2008 was a bit of inspiration on the set. "I've been freed of all of those time-heals-everything kind of things. Now, I've opened up to other ideas and ways of looking at life and the world," Robison said. "I think it's not only a more hopeful album, but it's more … well fun."
The announcement comes after a spring that their (former?) bandmate Natalie Maines introduced her debut solo album "Mother." The Dixie Chicks have four dates on slate July. The group has been describe as on a hiatus, though "ex" seems to be a bit stronger language.
"The Dixie Chicks still exist. The music still exists. I am open to playing live shows. It's fun," Natalie Maines told the SFGate earlier this year. "I always thought people broke up so they could make money on their comeback tour. That just always seemed like kind of a shady showbiz move to me. So unless they want to get a new lead singer or there's some big change, I don't see any purpose in that. To me, we're the Dixie Chicks. We'll always be the Dixie Chicks."


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Subway softball
The Subway 11 & 12 year old softball team won their game against DeSoto team 16-5 on July 5.
Despite the scorching temperatures, hits were made by Emily Krysztof, Ellie Meinen, Jessica Hill, Nicki Smith and Shelby Roberts. The winning pitcher was Ellie Meinen and the players of the game were Marie Ruona, Hill and Keisha Collins.
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The camp is for boys and girls, grades 6-12 (as of Fall '00) and will run Aug. 13-15 from1 p.m. to 4 p.m. The camp will include 1 on 1, 3 on 3 and 5 on 5 situations. Also included will be specific position moves and skill evaluation.
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Lenape's baseball team was feeling pretty good about itself after returning from a trip to Myrtle Beach with four wins.
The good feeling from the favorable weather and results quickly evaporated when the Indians lost five in a row and six of seven.
"We just fell apart," senior catcher Bobby Isopi said.
Many times a veteran team going through a midseason swoon doesn't recover, but to the Indians' credit, as we head toward Memorial Day, they aren't ready to collect the uniforms just yet.


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One of the hottest new phones on the market is the Samsung Galaxy Note, a behemoth Android-based smartphone that aims to directly take on Windows Phone and iOS competitors. The device is rock solid in many ways, from its bold and beautiful screen to its large size and lightning-fast data speeds. But the Samsung Galaxy Note battery life statistics are remarkable in their own right. The device easily outlasts competing smartphones of all stripes, even with a 4G LTE data connection powering its functions.
Transcending the 4G LTE Battery Drain
While wireless networks have been working diligently to expand the reach of their next-generation 4G LTE data networks, mobile phone development has severely lagged behind. Sure, there have been quite a few LTE phone releases in recent months, but their battery performance has been so poor that users found them impractical and virtual unusable. Indeed, until the Samsung Galaxy Note, most users had to choose between turning off their 4G connection or carrying a portable charger around with them wherever they went.
That's why it's so surprised to hear a Samsung Galaxy Note battery life review that touts the device's long-lasting call and standby times. Every major comparison between the device and competing smartphones shows that it lasts just as long as 3G competitors, and far longer than similarly-outfitted 4G Android devices.
This long battery life is largely due to the Samsung Galaxy Note's behemoth battery. At 2,500 mAh, the included lithium-ion battery is more than twice the size of competing Android devices like the Samsung Galaxy S and HTC Incredible S line of smartphones. It's even got more juice behind it than Google's own Nexus One device, which was designed to be the industry-leading Android phone of late 2011 and early 2012. All of that positions the Galaxy Note as one of the leading 4G phones on any mobile carrier in the world — and that's a strong showing from a company which has been noted for its robust phones with questionable batteries and charge times.
A Lot of Power for a Big Device
The Samsung Galaxy Note packs a big battery, but it necessarily has to: the device packs a whopping 5.3 inch screen, which is designed to position the Note as a bridge between smaller smartphones and significantly larger tablet computing devices powered by the same Android operating system. Likewise, 4G LTE data connections are battery-draining by their nature, and including a large battery is the least a company can do when developing a next-generation smartphone that takes advantage of this technology.
But the Samsung Galaxy Note also uses a low-powered processor and is incredibly efficient. Even a 2,500 mAh lithium-ion battery can be put to bad use, and quickly drain, on a device of any size and scope. A Samsung Galaxy Note battery life review would be remiss if it didn't give the company a huge amount of credit for using power efficiently, optimizing software for maximum battery life, and turning out such an impressive model of phone.
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The Samsung Galaxy Note's battery life easily lasts as long as an iPad. The device, on standby, can last almost eleven days without a single charge. That's nearly as good as Apples iPad — a device with a significantly larger screen, more advanced functions, and more persistent data connections. Consumers who use the device actively, all day long, will find that the Samsung Galaxy Note can go up to ten hours between charges during periods of intense use. This figure includes watching an occasional video between charges, making it all the more impressive.
With statistics like these, the phone easily surpasses other 4G LTE offerings in battery life. Many of the most recent phones can last between six and eight hours on a charge, and often experience far less battery life in real-world tests. Those phones have standby times of between three and six days, which is again far below the Samsung Galaxy Note's capability for storing power and using it in only the most efficient ways.
Worth noting is that Samsung's new Galaxy Note device is actually smaller than any of the company's Galaxy Tab series of full-sized tablet computers. It includes 4G where those devices only include 3G. And, amid all of this, the Galaxy Note has far longer battery life than those devices in almost every scenario — sometimes by as much as fifty percent. Samsung deserves some serious credit for this achievement.
A Solid Bridge Between Worlds
The Samsung Galaxy Note was designed to bridge the gap between tablet computers and smartphones, and it has done so easily. Samsung Galaxy Note battery life is the icing on a functional, usable cake, and easily shines as the industry's new standard. The device should be considered by all Android lovers and tablet power users as their next purchase when considering a new phone.