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Letter date 21 July from 'Don'. Reply to letters sent two years after Don left the squadron. Notes that he is in touch with some other squadron members and recounts what happened to him after he left the squadron. He went originally to 1669 Heavy…

RAF Langar was in Nottinghamshire, six miles south east of Radcliffe on Trent. Construction began in March 1940 and it opened in 1942 as part of 5 Group. The first flying unit arrived on 20 September 1942 when No. 207 Squadron arrived with Lancaster…

207 Squadron was equipped with Battles in 1939 and became part of 12 Operational Training Unit. The Squadron was re-formed in November 1940 at RAF Waddington as part of 5 Group Bomber Command to bring the new Manchesters into operational service.…