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John Hemingway: Last surviving Battle of Britain pilot dies aged 105

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John "Paddy" Hemingway joined the Royal Air Force as a teenager before World War Two .

At 21 , he was a fighter pilot in the Battle of Britain , a three-month period when air force personnel defended the skies against a large-scale assault by the German air force, the Luftwaffe .

His squadron shot down 90 enemy aircraft during an 11-day period in May 1940 .

He was forced to bail out of his Hurricane on two occasions, landing in the sea off the coast of Essex and in marshland.

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