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Memories from South Africa.
Ernest and Ethel Miskin with Beth...
Benon, Transvaal South Africa.

When war broke out my parents and I lived in Benon 18 miles east of Johannesburg.
A flying school was opened in Benon for SAAF and RAF personnel training.
The first RAF boys arrived in 1941. We were sent to church on Sunday and as we came out my parents
waited outside after the service so that any air force boys on their own would be invited home for tea.
The first ones who came then brought their pals and the numbers grew and grew. On Wednesdays their
half days off, Saturdays and Sundays we could have as many as twenty lads at a time.
Sometimes at weekends there would be swimming, picnics, and B&Qs and once a month we would meet in
the village hall in aid of war funds.
Many of the boy鈥檚 parents wrote letters to us sending food parcels weighing eleven pounds for only 2/6 in
old money.
My parents became known as 鈥淢a and Pop we had some wonderful times they were so missed when they
left after the war. E.M.

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