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Right opposite the cookhouse, which is called the Casino, is a dodge'em car affair... There was a good...
We were normally confined below decks during the hours of darkness, but were told that we could go on deck...
We flew from England, via the Bay of Biscay to Morocco in North Africa, then across to Cairo in Egypt....
The members of his crew were Leslie Bown, Ray Lord, Richard Parkinson, Stephen Sheldon, Ernest Farley and...
A kindly lorry driver picked Dad up a few miles outside Birmingham and took him to Stow-on-the-Wold. As he...
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