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Interview with Jim Wright. Two

John Wright was born in 1932. He was evacuated from West Ham during the War along with his Mother and two Brothers. Johns’ Father joined the Royal Air Force as an Observer Bomb Aimer with 207 Squadron. His aircraft was shot down over Switzerland on…

Tags: 207 Squadron; 467 Squadron; aircrew; bomb aimer; childhood in wartime; evacuation; final resting place; observer; shot down

Interview with Richard Franklin

Richard Franklin served as a wireless operator and flew 34 operations in Bomber Command over Germany. Describes the only operation on which he risked being killed, when his aircraft was attacked by a German night fighter over Frankfurt. Tells of…

Tags: aircrew; bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); forced landing; lack of moral fibre; memorial; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Leeming; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner

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