Conversation with Ted Mercer

Conversation with Ted Mercer

Includes brief outline of service career. Mentions joining up in 1941, training in England and the Florida in the United States. Comments on being quarantined on return and training prior to joining 83 Squadron on Lancaster. Mentioned flying curtailed due to appendicitis. Then went to 44 Squadron at RAF Dunholme Lodge. Then flew instructors tours before returning to 44 Squadron as a squadron instructor. Comments on troop repatriation and Cook's tours. Finally ended up at RAF Silverstone instructing on Wellington. Includes contemporary colour photograph of Ted Mercer.

2003-07-08

Two page printed document

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