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Grateful "war baby" buys RAF "Book of Heroes"
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August 3, 2011, Wednesday
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A GRATFUL "war baby" paid 33,600 pounds (US$54,756) at auction for a book of signatures of RAF flying officers who fought in World War II's Battle of Britain, auctioneers said yesterday.
The leather-bound volume -- described by Winston Churchill as "a book of heroes" -- contains 107 signatures collected by mess steward Norman Phillips, in 1941.
George Ridgeon -- a wheelchair-bound ex-fireman who describes himself as a "war baby who owes his life to these RAF chaps" -- purchased the book, auctioneer Bonhams told Reuters.
The series of aircraft battles above the south of Britain took place between July and September 1940 and effectively saved the country from Nazi invasion.
Churchill referred to the book as "not a book of names, but a book of heroes. God forbid it should ever be lost."
The leather-bound volume -- described by Winston Churchill as "a book of heroes" -- contains 107 signatures collected by mess steward Norman Phillips, in 1941.
George Ridgeon -- a wheelchair-bound ex-fireman who describes himself as a "war baby who owes his life to these RAF chaps" -- purchased the book, auctioneer Bonhams told Reuters.
The series of aircraft battles above the south of Britain took place between July and September 1940 and effectively saved the country from Nazi invasion.
Churchill referred to the book as "not a book of names, but a book of heroes. God forbid it should ever be lost."
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