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I enjoyed the story by mehefin involving Frank Willmot of the RCAF. I was also in Eindhoven on the day in question and well remember the German FW190's flying in so low over our 83 Group HQ unit that we could clearly see the pilots. Eric Sykes and I were Wireless Operators and Bill Fraser was our Codes and Cyphers officer who used to decode and encode the messages that Eric and I and others received and sent in Morse Code to and from the UK. We were also invloved in broadcsting the weather prospects in five figure groups in Morse Code to the airfields within our Group. Previously the rocket firing Typhoon's of our Group, which was part of the 2nd Tactical Airforce, were involved in the destruction the 9th German Panzer Division in the Falaise Gap which we believe was a turning point in the campaign. We had landed in Normandy in June 1944 and towards the end of 1945 found ouselves in northern Germany on the borders with Denmark. I am now 81 years old and it all seems to be part of another world - thank goodness!!

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