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Fighter Pilot Podcast

Fighting Imperial Japan with former RAF Fighter Pilot Jeffrey Brain

Fighter Pilot Podcast

Tucker "Cinco" Hamilton, Retired U.S. Air Force Fighter Test Pilot

History, Society & Culture, Leisure, Personal Journals, Aviation, Government, Technology

4.92.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

We're taking another break this week as we prepare for 'Army Aviation Month' coming up in August. Instead, enjoy this discussion with Mr. Jeffrey Brain, a former RAF fighter pilot who flew Hurricanes and Mosquitoes against the Japanese in World War II. Even at 98 years young, Mr. Brain lives up to his name! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-fighter-pilot-podcast/donations

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0:00.0

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0:30.0

Hello everyone and welcome to the Fighter pilot podcast. I am your host

0:34.1

Vincent Iello and this week we're taking a little break from our normal routine.

0:38.3

We've been hitting it pretty hard all year and we are working on initiatives for future endeavors such as Army Aviation

0:45.6

Month coming up in August as well as recording interviews for an entirely new

0:49.6

podcast we're working on and we'll have more details about that another time. But for

0:54.4

this week we are going to offer an intermission. It's a replay of a happy hour

0:58.9

interview that I recorded back in May. Now happy hour as you will learn is available to our

1:04.9

Patreon supporters and it's just a less formal more casual discussion on just

1:10.4

whatever we think of talking about and this week I think you'll really like it

1:14.4

because it's with Mr Jeffrey Brane who is a UK-based hurricane and mosquito pilot from

1:19.6

World War II and he's going to talk all about his experiences just even getting into the Royal Air Force in the first place but his training and then also getting down to where he fought the Japanese.

1:30.0

He did not fight in the European theater. So I think you'll really

1:34.0

enjoy that but first just a couple quick announcements that I feel you should

1:38.1

know about. First thing, our big wing tanker guest Mark Hasera, you remember Sligo.

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