article_snippet.sent: Beached: German soldiers sitting on Spitfire brought down on the wet sands at Calais by Flying Officer Peter Cazenove.
article_snippet.sent: Cazenove, a 32-year-old Old Etonian of the stock-broking dynasty flying his first combat mission, had no choice but to bring the aircraft down on the wet sands at Calais, despite radioing in to say 'Tell mother I'll be home for tea!'
article_snippet.sent: Sadly, Flying Officer Peter Cazenove died just a few weeks before the Spitfire was discovered.
article_snippet.sent: Shortly before Flying Officer Peter Cazenove passed away Flying Officer Peter Cazenove is even said to have told Flying Officer Peter Cazenove wife
article_snippet.sent: After D-Day, flying ace Johnnie Johnson organised a supply run of Spitfires with barrels of beer slung under each wing to bring the ‘necessities of life’ to pilots on front-line airfields in Normandy.
highlights_snippet.sent: crash-landed on French beach and lay hidden for 40 years .
  