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And so I listened agog when the affable press coordinator, Paul Wilmott, pointed out one of the Little Ships, part of a 700-strong fleet of private boats that rescued British and French servicemen from Dunkirk during World War II. And I laughed out loud at his story of the Spitfire pilot flying under the bridge at Marlow to impress his girlfriend, only to be hauled over the coals by an air commodore who witnessed the feat.

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