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This story was told by Charles Winters, RN, to a People's War volunteer.

'I was a great friend of James Cheney who was in RAF along with his 3 brothers. After the war, James wrote a great deal of poetry about WW2. He had a sitting room in the Eagle Pub, Cambridge, where he would write. It is now decorated all over with his work.

One day while he was writing, he looked up and saw writing on the ceiling. He and the landlord cleaned away the paint and found thousands of signatures of US air and naval pilots, crew and girlfriends. They cleaned it up and it鈥檚 now visible to all. US veterans regularly go back to the Eagle for reunions and to remember old comrades. When James died, Capt Robert Knight Morgan of Memphis Belle sent flowers to his funeral.'

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