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A typical inner city kid, I grew up on the neighborhood streets; riding bikes and playing football or cricket. In the forth grade I read 'Reach for the Sky', the biography of Douglas Bader who led a fighter squadron during the Battle of Britain despite loosing both legs in an accident. It ignited a lifelong passion for aviation, living and working on airfields since I left school 27 years ago.

Rugby consumed my early years, and latter I developed a love for motorcycles, fast red Italian machines from Bologna my main weakness.

Work provided opportunities to live in Malaysia and the United States, and I travel whenever I have the time and funds available.

Arts & Humanities > The World Wars The Anzacs in France, 1918: The reasons for their effectiveness

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When the Anzac Corps re-entered the line on the Western Front in 1918, it was arguably the most effective Corps available to the British Imperial High Command. At that time, it comprised only nine per cent of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF); during this period won twenty-two per cent of the territory, troops and guns captured. In December 1916, after the Anzac Corps transferred from his command to the Fifth Army, Gen. Rawlinson wrote in his diary that they were fine fighters but...not soldiers-their Company and Battalion Commanders are lamentable...I am really not sorry to lose them....

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