year ii, week 20

This week’s creature is well known to pilots, more specifically to World War II RAF pilots. Stories about them causing unexplained technical and mental problems for Royal Air Force pilots were popular during and after World War II. Their name became slang among British pilots stationed in Malta, the Middle East and India in the 1920s.

The Gremlins made their way from Brits slang into music (Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters), to literature to films and so much more. So, here’s a Gremlin to celebrate another mythical creature:

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