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I enlisted in the RAF at Lords Cricket Ground, St John's Wood, at the beginning of !943 and after aptitude tests was declared to be suitable for training as a Bomb Aimer. Along with others we were sent on a Preliminary Aircrew Training Course (PACT) attached to Lincoln Technical College for five months. D Day occurred while here and the drone of aircraft in the evening and early morning was an indicator something big was about to happen and did. At the end of the course we returned to London but were packed off to Paignton because of the Doodlebug onslaught (V 1's) From here a few of us were returned to London where we given the task of cleaning all the flats at St John's Wood prior to their being derequisitioned. Off To Heaton Park Manchester where for one day we were extras in a film about the RAF. The rest of our stay was hard work when we were up at before dawn to be taken in coaches to the wild farms of Lancashire to do Potato picking. If you were lucky the farmer would give you a hot dinner, if not, packed lunch, Erks Mess Style, would have to do. After various postings, one to London where I worked in a Pay Office in Hallam Street close to the 大象传媒 where I was able to live at home for six months, I finished up at No. 2 Radio School, Yatesbury Wiltshire remustered from Aircrew to trainee Radar Mechanic. Following training I was looking forward to a posting to an Airfield but I was kept at Yatesbury and made an Instructor in the Workshops teaching soldering, cable splicing, brazing and working with ebonite. I had never taught anyone in my life so why I was chosen for this auspictious task I'll never know. I remained at Yatesbury until my demob at the end of 1947. My proud boast in civilian life was to have spent four years in the RAF and never going higher than the top of Blackpool Tower on the night before I was demobbed.

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