Jolly Good Show! WW II Ace gets fighter plane coffin.

[mikea]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=453975&in_page_id=1770

Colonel Fowler approves.
"Jolly Good Show!"

 

[Frank Browne]

Re: Jolloy Good Show! WW II Ace buried in fighter plane coffin.

Jolly good show is right!

 

[JohnR]

Re: Jolloy Good Show! WW II Ace buried in fighter plane coffin.

I want one.

 

[mikea]

Re: Jolloy Good Show! WW II Ace gets fighter plane coffin.

Not buried,. He was cremated in that cardboard coffin.

Only the article headline says he was an Ace. Don't you have to have 3(?) kills to be an Ace?

 

[Frank Browne]

Re: Jolloy Good Show! WW II Ace gets fighter plane coffin.

Not buried,. He was cremated in that cardboard coffin.

Only the article headline says he was an Ace. Don't you have to have 3(?) kills to be an Ace?

5 I believe. Of course it may be different in the RAF.