Current Events > Roald Dahl (Charlie and the Chocolate factory) was a fighter ace in WW2

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roald_Dahl

On 20 April 1941, Dahl took part in the Battle of Athens, alongside the highest-scoring British Commonwealth ace of World War II, Pat Pattle, and Dahl's friend David Coke. Of 12 Hurricanes involved, five were shot down and four of their pilots killed, including Pattle. Greek observers on the ground counted 22 German aircraft downed, but because of the confusion of the aerial engagement, none of the pilots knew which aircraft they had shot down. Dahl described it as "an endless blur of enemy fighters whizzing towards me from every side"
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His record of five aerial victories, qualifying him as a flying ace, has been confirmed by post-war research and cross-referenced in Axis records.

That battle had to have been crazy. British and German fighter planes battling over the skies of Athens as Greece was getting overrun by the German Army with dozens of planes going down over the city.

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His books have some real rough spots lol

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