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Tributes paid to top WWII pilot
« on: March 04, 2007, 06:44:51 PM »
A historian has paid tribute to one of Britain's wartime pilots.

Alex Henshaw of Newmarket, Suffolk, died at the age of 94 earlier this week. He was best known as a test pilot on Spitfires during World War II.

Defence chiefs prevented Henshaw from fighting in the war because he was considered too valuable.

Bill Bond, founder of the Battle of Britain Society, said Mr Henshaw may have been the greatest pilot Britain had seen.

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