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- Essex Action Desk
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- Harry Bass
- Location of story:听
- Holland
- Background to story:听
- Royal Air Force
- Article ID:听
- A6755321
- Contributed on:听
- 07 November 2005
When I finished training for the Fleet Air Arm, I was seconded to the Royal Air Force, at RAF Hurn near Christchurch. I was then put into 295 Squadron and flew to Harwell (this was 5 or 6 months before D Day). I only realised this later.
Our duties were to drop supplies to the Resitance in France, Holland and Belgium; this was food, medical supplies and exploseives. We were given information from the Resistance by Morse code, teling us what was required and where to drop it. We flew on full moon nights in Stirling bombers, with seven crew and sometimes nine. The Resistance flickered lights in a circle formation, to show us where to drop the supplies in that area.
Tons and tons of explosives, medical supplies, food and ammunition, were dropped in that four or five months before D Day to enable the Resistance to do their job. This wa to blow up bridges, railways and roads, and also to set ambushes with the machine guns, sent by the RAF.
After D day I went back into the Fleet Air Arm and out to the far east on HMS Garuda, we were preparing for the attack on Japan in (1945), when two Atom bombs were dropped on Japan. I received campaign medals for all these operations.
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