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Happy birthday!

Today would have been the 100th birthday of my uncle, my mum’s only brother. Although we didn’t see him so often when I was living in the north of England, I have such wonderful vivid memories of him when I was a child. Uncle Alan, born William Alan Matthews in East Preston in Sussex, was […]

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The soft and squidgy side to war

I couldn’t help but smile on today’s editorial comment in the Daily Telegraph about the report that aircraft crews during the war had had to contend with other difficulties than what might be expected: The Sixties were a tense time for the pilots and crews of V bombers, the RAF’s strategic nuclear strike aircraft. At […]

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