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Party boy Brooks knew how to have a good time

THE1968 Lions departed for South Africa 50 years ago on Friday May 13 which didn’t worry the tour manager David Brooks because 13 was Brooks’ lucky number.
The extrovert Brooks served as a Swordfish pilot in WWII hunting U Boats up in the Artic Ocean where he risked his life on a daily basis trying to land on aircraft carriers tossing aout on 40 foot waves.
Three times Brooks survived bad prangs, remarkably all on Friday the 13th. The first time his aircraft fell off the side of his carrier when the arrester gear failed and he got very wet and cold after an unscheduled swim in t...

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