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Interview with William Joseph Longhurst

William Longhurst served as an engine mechanic through the Second World War. He was a member of the Hackney Wick Air Defence Cadet Corps before volunteering to enlist in the RAF after his seventeenth birthday. Following basic training at Skegness,…

Tags: 620 Squadron; B-17; Blenheim; fuelling; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; mechanics engine; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); P-51; perimeter track; RAF Cardington; RAF Filton; runway; Stirling; training; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force

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