Short conversation with Norman Didwell 3

Short conversation with Norman Didwell 3

Norman discusses fate of aircraft R3170 and names Gerald Francis Saxon (755373 Royal Air Force).

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ND: Our floor, but the only one that was killed on it was young [pause] a young wireless operator/a.g. called Sexton.
SB: Right.
ND: And he’s buried in the Amsterdam [unclear] Cemetery. And that’s the crash at Haarlem.
SB: Oh ok.
ND: I forget the number of the aircraft.
SB: Oh, we’ll soon find it out. Oh, here you are R3170.
ND: Yeah. There you are.
[pause]
ND: Take them with you.
SB: Are you sure?
ND: Yeah.
SB: Alright.
ND: Put them in there look. [unclear] entry.
SB: Blimey they made a mess of it didn’t they?
ND: It’s actually somewhere else and I think the front a.g. was an Irish bloke. What was his name? I think Scanlon. I think. He ended up in some young girl’s bedroom [laughs] In there. He crashed into a house.
SB: Oh dear. Right. All right.
ND: Theres a lot of this in there isn’t there?
SB: Absolutely. Just the, just the sort of stuff I’m looking for, Norm.
ND: You’re going to have —