W. Bush survived the crash of the plane he piloted in that war.

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The pilot of a First World War replica plane who was killed when it crashed at a Hampshire airfield was a 68-year-old man from Horsham in West Sussex.

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"During the World War II, thousands of aircraft carried two pigeons in case they the plane was downed so they could send messages, " he said.

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Peters, 64, has been one of the last people that about 20, 000 soldiers so far have seen before boarding the plane for the war zone -- and one of the first seen upon return.

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In 1942, the Duke of Kent, youngest brother of King George VI, was killed in a plane crash during a war mission to Iceland.

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During World War II, America's P51 Mustang fighter, a single-engine prop plane, creamed the first fleet of German combat jets, the Messerschmitt 262.

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