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Tags: RAF Manston
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Letter to L V Rosser from Johnny Meredith

Apologises for taking so long to answer letter. Mentions Cologne and Essen operations and fighter engagement on the former which resulted in damage and belly landing at RAF Manston. Catches up with news of families and colleagues as well as some oh…

Tags: bombing; forced landing; military service conditions; missing in action; RAF Chipping Norton; RAF Manston; RAF Stanton Harcourt

Letter to L V Rosser from Jonny Meredith

Mentions lucky trip to Cologne and subsequent DFC. Mentions seeing Rosser in a bus queue in Oxford but missed meeting up. Writes a little about his operation to Cologne (flown as an Operational Training Unit crew) where he was engaged by fighter…

Tags: aircrew; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Distinguished Flying Cross; forced landing; military service conditions; Operational Training Unit; RAF Chipping Norton; RAF Manston; RAF Stanton Harcourt; training; Whitley

Letter to Miss Roberts from the Red Cross

Reply to a letter asking information about a friend, Sergeant J McCormick. Regrets to inform her that he had been reported killed in action on 4 April 1943 and was laid to rest in Eindhoven, Netherlands.

Tags: final resting place; killed in action; RAF Manston; Red Cross

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