killed by flying debris
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7/17/2019 Killed by Flying Debris
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Killed by flying debris
This week we open with an occasional piece that highlights a promoted item. Thenew featured article Paterson Clarence Hughes was nominated by Ian Rose, one ofthe three current FAC coordinators. Pat Hughes (19171940) was an Australian fighter ace of World War II who served with the British Royal Air Force and achieved17 victories during the Battle of Britain before being killed in action.
The article gives a sense of a colourful and talented young man from isolated inland south-eastern Australia, a part of the continent with an unusual sub-alpine landscape he later described as magnificent and grand. His story is notable for the chasm beween this early, isolated rural life and his death in the sky on the other side of the world from debris flying out of a German bomber he had justshot down at close rangeat the age of just 22 years.
The Signpost asked Ian Rosewho was on a long train trip somewhere in the northern hemispherewhether the juxtaposition of the personal aspects and the mechanics of war has been something that attracts him to military history writing.