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Interview with Jeff Mackay

Jeff Mackay was born in 1922 in Ballarat, Australia and was working as a cadet engineer. He joined the Army but decided to join the RAAF when the Japanese entered the war in 1941. After boarding a ship he trained as a navigator in Canada and then…

Tags: 460 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; entertainment; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; military ethos; navigator; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); prisoner of war; RAF Binbrook; RAF Hixon; RAF Llandwrog; superstition; training

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