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[2Chestnut] Военные некрологи из британских газет
Huang Tingxin
Last Chinese officer to serve in the wartime Royal Navy, who joined the attack on the battleship Tirpitz
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/naval-obituaries/6772504/Huang-Tingxin.html
Flight Lieutenant Lew Cody
Pilot who defied extraordinary odds to fight and survive from the first day of war to the last
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/air-force-obituaries/6762985/Flight-Lieutenant-Lew-Cody.html
Air Cdre Mike Burton
Navigator who served the RAF in campaigns from Suez to the Falklands
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/6753765/Air-Cdre-Mike-Burton.html
Rear-Admiral Sam Salt
Commander of HMS Sheffield, the first Royal Navy ship to be sunk during the Falklands War
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/naval-obituaries/6744685/Rear-Admiral-Sam-Salt.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article6950578.ece
Major-General Oliver Roome
Soldier who watched Maoris nonchalantly play cricket as bombs fell at Alamein and later sailed tall ships
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/army-obituaries/6720539/Major-General-Oliver-Roome.html
Sophie Moss
Polish aristocrat whose parties for SOE agents in wartime Cairo were famously uproarious
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/6716412/Sophie-Moss.html
Lieutenant Commander 'Fred' Frederiksen
Fleet Air Arm pilot who inveigled his way into the Falklands War where he served with distinction
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/naval-obituaries/6685682/Lieutenant-Commander-Fred-Frederiksen.html
'Бій відлунав. Жовто-сині знамена затріпотіли на станції знов'
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Военные некрологи из британских газет
Sir Richard O'Brien
Highly decorated assistant to Montgomery who later helped shape Britain's political consensus
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/army-obituaries/6804453/Sir-Richard-OBrien.html
Major Bill Haynes
Chindit in the Burma Campaign who led a successful bayonet charge and refused treatment for his wounds
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/army-obituaries/6782143/Major-Bill-Haynes.html
и офтопичное, но знаковое
Paul Samuelson
Keynesian economist who wrote one of the most influential textbooks and warned about many modern finiancial market ills
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article6955107.ece
'Бій відлунав. Жовто-сині знамена затріпотіли на станції знов'