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Permission for David to be absent from quarters and notes reading 'Douglas. 350' and 'Sgt. Tracy C. 68 Sandgate Blackpool'.

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Geoff Payne has his first experience of the Royal Air Force with the Air Training Corps, at RAF Wyton in Cambridgeshire, where he had one of his first experiences of military humour. He joined in 1943 at the age of 17 and a half hoping to become a…

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George was born in London and lost family members in the Blitz. He went to work in the building trade in the Midlands. At his selection board, he wanted to be a pilot. He was called up and went to Cardington, then RAF Tangmere, where 486 Squadron was…

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