Rackham: A Short Story

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I walked happily over to the hanger my new plane was in and I changed into my pilot gear, cheers for these Mr Rackham I thought to myself. I went to my plane and found my new gunman. I shook his hand as he said
"I'm Wilson, you must be George Rackham?"
"Sure, I'm George Rackham, I'm your guy. I replied not worrying about a thing. I just wanted to get up in the air. She is beautiful I thought to myself. My plane was a Bristol F2.B. In short she was a fighter plane. I got in the cockpit and I was mesmerised by the aeroplane
"Come on, let's get this kite up in the air."I told Wilson.
He agreed so we took off out of the hangar and into the sky. She was beautiful to fly. Rackham doesn't deserve this, the posh pome. As we were flying to the training ground I saw
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Shit that was lucky I thought the whole way back.
That's how we accidentally discovered where the Germans were keeping their munitions for half the western front. Wilsons pictures would help HQ(Head quarters) launch a major assault. There was just one problem.
We made it back to the air base and went to the commanders office. Wilson knew that if he showed the commander these photos there would be a full air attack on the Germans base, which was good thing but Wilson was scared of getting into trouble and didn't want to die in this war.
Wilson was very smart, he knew we weren't supposed to be there. Also he wasn't the most patriotic nor brave man I thought to myself but who was I to judge ha, I stole a plane from an officer and pretended to be one.
I Told him that if we showed the commander these photos wed be hero's and that we'd get medals for this. Wilson was very hesitant .He was scared to go into battle and he was scared to die. I'll make you a deal, if we pal up on this you need to Promise me you'll get me back in one piece. Wilson said.
"sure thing." I replied quickly
"No you need to promise, I need your word." he said reluctantly I agreed with "Okay, I

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