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Memoirs of an Air Gunner

Ron Bedford volunteered for the Royal Air Force and was told he had the aptitude to be a pilot but re-mustered as an air gunner, to avoid waiting for call up. He reads the "Message of Welcome" letter he received in July 1942 from the Secretary of…

Tags: 620 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; briefing; crewing up; Heavy Conversion Unit; Horsa; Operational Training Unit; RAF Ashbourne; RAF Fairford; RAF Leicester East; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Woolfox Lodge; recruitment; Special Operations Executive; Stirling; training

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