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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

- Prime Minister Winston Churchill (about the Royal Air Force)

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OCDP

Officer Career Development Programme

Today in Military History

June 24

1850:

Lord Kichener born

1900:

Captain L.S.T. Halliday, Royal Marine Light Infantry, awarded the Victoria Cross, Peking

1944:

VC won by Flight Lieut. David Ernest Hornell, Royal Canadian Air Force, Shetland Islands (posthumous)

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