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                <text>123 items. The collection concerns Edward Thomas Henry Neale (b. 1922, 1395951 Royal Air Force) who served  as a navigator with 37 Squadron in North Africa, the Middle East and Italy. The collection contains his training notebooks from South Africa as well as propaganda leaflets dropped by the allies in the Mediterranean theatre.   &#13;
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The collection also contains a photograph album, navigation logs and target photographs.&#13;
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The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Alison Neale and catalogued by Barry Hunter.&#13;
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                <text>This content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. Some items have not been published in order to protect the privacy of third parties, to comply with intellectual property regulations, or have been assessed as medium or low priority according to the IBCC Digital Archive collection policy and will therefore be published at a later stage. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collection-policy.</text>
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            <text>[Front of envelope]&#13;
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1395951. F/Sgt. Neale. E.&#13;
“COMM” Flight,&#13;
144. M.U.&#13;
R.A.F.&#13;
C.M.F.&#13;
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1802390. F/Sgt. Cannon H.&#13;
Sgts Mess,&#13;
R.A.F. Sleap,&#13;
Nr. Wem,[?]&#13;
Salop.&#13;
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7th October 1945.&#13;
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Dear Jasputin, Ted or what have you,&#13;
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Many tanks[sic] for scrawled epistle dated 29th-9-45 recieved[sic] yesterday after following me from Lissett.  I had more or less given you up for lost, though you might have got off track sometime &amp; ended up at Sierra del Fuego or some such spot. &#13;
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I am still a U/T [?] U/S[?] Met assistant &amp; here I have more work to do which definitely does not suit your truly.  The camp is not bad &amp; the mangeria [sic] varies, from bad to frightful &amp; Shrewsbury &#13;
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2.&#13;
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is only ten miles away.  Funny the lack of bull[?] considering this is a Wimpy O.T.U. imagine Wimpie’s.&#13;
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There is[sic] vast quantities of beer of which I naturally have my share but an acute shortage of gaspers, if anyone sais[sic] “anbody[sic] want a fag” a queue forms or should it be line.&#13;
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I got a letter from Don Skulls[?] Taylor to’ther day, he is flying Wimps at an A.G.S. in the Isle of Man and is cheesed.  Len has just moved to Grantham where he is assisting in the parachute section.  I hav’nt[sic] heard from Zappie [?] for several week’s[sic] he is a civilian now &amp; apparently likes the life, lucky sod.&#13;
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Hope you get your leave soon, I go on 10 days in just under two weeks time, I also go for the&#13;
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occasional week end, it only takes five hours to get home &amp; the train service is fairly frequent.&#13;
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Re your millionaire if I knew of one I would be bleeding him white myself so that would be out.&#13;
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All the gen for now old lass.[?]  Keep smiling &amp; bottoms up.&#13;
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[underlined] Bert [/underlined]</text>
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              <text>Bert refers to receiving an earlier letter from Ted. He discusses his social life - beer, food and cigarettes and recalls various colleagues and what they are doing.</text>
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