worlds oldest WWI fighter pilot died

Sergeant_Scrotum · **worlds oldest WWI fighter pilot died -** 01-07-2003, 05:45 PM

on friday cry: , just saw a thing on the news about it, id find an article but i think im going to get sick so im going to go sleep for a bit, if anyone else can find one post the link here.

01-07-2003, 05:45 PM

why. Did you know him?

Full Metal Jacket · 01-07-2003, 06:06 PM

Canadian WWI fighter pilot dies
Last Updated Tue, 07 Jan 2003 18:39:54
TORONTO - Henry John Lawrence Botterell, perhaps the last remaining First World War fighter pilot, has died at the age of 106.

Botterell died last Friday at a nursing home in Toronto.

As a 20-year-old bank clerk, Botterell joined the Royal Navy Air Service (RNAS) in 1916. When he died, the Department of Veterans' Affairs believed he was the last surviving pilot in the world to have seen action in the Great War.

Botterell hardly had a graceful takeoff as a pilot, crashing at Dunkirk on his second flight when his engine failed in September 1917.

After six months in hospital, he was discharged and sent back to Canada.

He re-enlisted and joined the 208th Squadron of the RNAS, where he served from May 11 to Nov. 27, 1918.

Botterell never flew again after he returned to Canada.

He brought home a fence post that was caught in the wing of a Sopwith Camel he flew on a low-level sortie. The souvenir how rests at the National War Museum in Ottawa.

01-07-2003, 06:08 PM

I like ur sig FMJ but you should but

-The Sarge

aftre it

Bazooka_Joe · 01-07-2003, 06:34 PM

Wow, that sucks. My goal is to sit down with someone from WWII and see from them what it was like.

Vance · 01-07-2003, 06:46 PM

Was he the last man ever in the war to die?

Sergeant_Scrotum · 01-07-2003, 06:50 PM

no, I think he was the last fighter pilot.

ninty · 01-07-2003, 11:02 PM

There are still people alive who fought in WWI, however not many. For them to be alive they would have had to been born in 1902 latest. By the end of the war they would ahve been 16. So they might have been able to lie about their age. And I don't think many of them were 16 and fighting in 1918. So being born in 1902 would make them 101 this year. Very old.

pvt_hz · 01-07-2003, 11:26 PM

thats sad veterans are dying and bitches like osama bin laden are alive.... hake:

Old Reliable · 01-08-2003, 12:01 AM

time is running out....

Bazooka_Joe · 01-08-2003, 12:42 AM

I dunno if it was posted here or not, or if I heard it from somewhere else, but did you hear they want to cut all WWII vets of their VA plans?

Jedi Marksman · 01-08-2003, 02:11 AM

[quote="ST_Bazooka_Joe":eaf8f]I dunno if it was posted here or not, or if I heard it from somewhere else, but did you hear they want to cut all WWII vets of their VA plans?[/quote:eaf8f]

It'll never happen. All hell would break loose. Besides, since many Republicans are former military, they will not let that happen.

Chavez · 01-08-2003, 05:02 AM

How many Jerries did he kill?

Sergeant_Scrotum · 01-08-2003, 06:26 AM

im not sure they said but i rember him telling a story about how he shot 500 rounds into a german ballooon thingy & it exploded but the guy inside managed to parachute out in time, the man was afraid that he would be shot because he was a sitting duck but when when Henry(the guy that died friday) made a final pass he dint shoot him but instead saluted him. if only their were soldiers like him around today.