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- Peoples War Team in the East Midlands
- People in story:Ìý
- Frank Herrick
- Location of story:Ìý
- Blackpool
- Background to story:Ìý
- Royal Air Force
- Article ID:Ìý
- A4001815
- Contributed on:Ìý
- 04 May 2005
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As a member of the RAF I was stationed at Blackpool for a while. Unlike the Army, in the RAF you didn’t move around very much you where posted. A posting came in one day for Wick in Scotland. Myself and another officer both put in for it and eventually we tossed a coin for it. I went to Wick where they were forming a new squadron that later went onto the aircraft carrier. Whilst on the aircraft carrier we went to the Far East finishing up in Australia. On that flip of a coin I ended up at the other side of the world. If the other guy had lost I’d have stayed at Blackpool — which may have been far better.
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