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UK News 30-06-2005
who: WWII hero Roy Holmes
what: Dies, aged 90
where: Hoylake Cottage Hospital, Wirral
when: Tuesday
snippet: Sergeant Holmes, from the Wirral, Merseyside, became a national celebrity in September 1940 when he saved Buckingham Palace by ramming his Hurricane fighter into an enemy bomber, says The Scotsman. "With his ammunition gone, and at a closing speed of more than 400mph, he flew straight at the Dornier, slicing off the German aircraft`s tail with the wing of his own plane. The impact sent the German aircraft hurtling to earth with such force that almost the entire aircraft was embedded in the ground..." [... more]
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