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Following a two-month spell at Scapa Flow during the summer of 1940, HMS Barham sailed to Freetown, Sierra...
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Notable amongst the lucky airmailers are Jasu Pitts, Brian Stringer, Nuts Brodrick and Gerald Ellison(2)....
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