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- royalstarandgarter
- People in story:听
- John Hawley
- Location of story:听
- England
- Background to story:听
- Royal Air Force
- Article ID:听
- A7190958
- Contributed on:听
- 22 November 2005
This story has been added to the People's War Site by Margaret Walsh of The Royal Star and Garter Home on behalf of John Hawley and has been added to the site with his permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.
I was in the RAF and Fleet Air Arm. I was an air fitter, doing periodical DIs [daily inspections]. I was in 5 Group Bomber Command [Bomber Harris'] at Grantham, which was the headquarters of Bomber Command during the war. Planes set out from there to bomb Europe.
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