Handley Page Halifax

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Name: Handley Page Halifax

First reported Jan 15 2013 - Updated Jan 15 2013 - 1 reports

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Re: Seeing The Duchess In A New Light , Jan. 12. Graham Sutherland’s unflattering painting of Sir. Winston Churchill — commissioned in 1954 and later destroyed by his wife Clementine — was a celebrated case of a subject violently disliking the artist’s ... [Published National Post | Full Comment » Full Comment - Jan 15 2013]

Entities: Deborah Coyne, Halifax (Canada), Andrew Coyne

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"I ran across to a barn where the hay was and sat there until late at night, when I had to go back, because they would be missing me too. Actually, it was my father who was hit hardest. It was a long while before he got over that. Years. The brothers wanted to go to Germany after the war, to visit the crash site. Father forbade it. He did not relent until 1972, only a few weeks before his own death. To Harolds astonishment, fragments of the plane were still lying around. You could just kick the earth and find bits of it. They are now in a display case at the museum, except for one fragment: a small cycling spanner that Christopher Panton used to keep in his pocket at all times. Ive got it at home, says Fred. There was a little bit of his uniform stuck on the spanner. Weve never cleaned it. With their fathers help, the brothers set up a poultry farm after the war. They started with 28 chickens but now have 1.6 million, on six sites. The company is run by their sons, allowing Fred and Harold to give their time to the site they bought in 1981. I thought there would soon be nothing left of these airfields, and no trace of what these lads did, says Fred. They had always wanted to buy a Halifax, but their father was against it. By the time they had somewhere to keep such a plane, there were no more left. So in 1983 they acquired NX611, a Lancaster built in 1945 and flown by the French in New Caledonia and Australia before coming home to stand as an earthbound mascot by the gate at RAF Scampton."

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