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Old 21st September 2011, 17:43
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Re: He111 shot down 17 June 1940

Brian,

Yes, you can read the sentence either way, but if you take out the bracketed survivor, then the word "British" is a collective plural, so "he" applies to the German brandishing a Luger. Anyway, someone would take them prisoner or drown them. They could not let the Germans run around freely within sight of the British exodus.

I think it is probably fantasy.

Mark.
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