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- 大象传媒 Open Centre, Hull
- Location of story:听
- Holt, Norfolk
- Background to story:听
- Royal Air Force
- Article ID:听
- A7262868
- Contributed on:听
- 24 November 2005
Uncle Jack (Mums Cousin)
by Andy Forster.
Born 1920 and named after John Comins. Joined RAF in 1940, becoming a rear gunner in a Flying Fortress of Coastal Command. Based all round the country, finally at Holt in Norfolk.
Taking off one morning the plane caught fire and crashed in a fireball. Jack was the only survivor out of a crew of 8, pulled from the wreckage by a young nurse. Spent months in hospital, ending the war there until he came home finally in late 1945.
As a good looking young chap, he ended his RAF career modelling parachutes for the MOD.
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