- Contributed by听
- morpethadultlearning
- People in story:听
- Arthur Blake
- Location of story:听
- Birmingham
- Background to story:听
- Royal Air Force
- Article ID:听
- A4255049
- Contributed on:听
- 23 June 2005
During the war I lived in Heathfield in Birmingham. I worked in a factory making small components for the war effort for two and a half years. I became a tool room cost clerk.
When I was sixteen I volunteered for the ATC and then joined the RAF but wasn鈥檛 allowed to fly aircraft because I had a hearing and eyesight defect. I then became a radio mechanic and ended up teaching. When the war finished many of the pilots and aircrew who had originally been flying the planes were changing course and I ended up teaching them radio mechanics.
I spent two months in South Kensington on a radar course. I was part of the 620 squadron based in Leicester where they flew Stirling Bombers (which were on their way out - Halifax and Lancasters took over because they could tow gliders).
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