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From: dxb105@csc.anu.edu.au
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Subject: RE: FIGHTER PILOTS LACKING 20/20.
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Date: 13 Dec 90 03:43:43 GMT
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From: dxb105@csc.anu.edu.au

Ed(ward?) Mannock was a telephone technician, working for a British company in
Turkey when Turkey entered the first world war. He was imprisoned as an enemy
alien, but released, at the age of twenty-nine, in poor health. Somehow he
wangled himself training as a pilot, despite being almost blind without his
glasses. He scored ~72 kills, and, I think, survived the war.
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