Winstion churchill was anxious to leave the country. It was July 1942, and he wanted to go to Cairo and Moscow to confer with his generals and with Soviet leader Josef Stalin, but the pilot assigned to fly him urged caution. "I'd like...a bad night to get out of England to go to Gibraltar," William J. Vanderkloot told the British prime minister. Years later, he explained to his son, Bill, "I didn't want to get shot down over England."
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机译：温斯顿·丘吉尔渴望着离开该国。那是1942年7月，他想去开罗和莫斯科与他的将军和苏联领导人约瑟夫·斯大林会谈，但被指派飞往他的飞行员敦促小心。威廉·范德克鲁特（William J. Vanderkloot）对英国首相说：“我想……离开英国去直布罗陀的夜晚很糟糕。”多年后，他对儿子比尔（Bill）解释说：“我不想被英格兰击落。”
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