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  1. Remembering my great uncle Edwin, whose plane was shot down off Stavanger, Norway on this day in 1940. He was 19.
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      Edwin's older brother, Stanley, joined action in Europe 3 weeks after D-Day, as a Major in the 61st Reconnaissance Corps. 3 months later he was killed when his scout car hit a landmine near Arnhem. His younger son was 2 months old. @sebduggan/1133032173987090434
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        Their father (my great-grandfather), distraught at the loss of both his sons to the war, erected this memorial window in their memory in Westonbirt church. Photo credit: Mark Newton iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/30275 @sebduggan/1136710808665300992
        oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
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