[…]e sound department and the then chief, Red Turtle and I was there until September 1949 when I had to go and do my National Service which I did in the RAF. I went in for 18 months but then I was home on a 72 hour pass and I had been to see a Chelsea Arsenal evening kick off match and I came hom[…]
[…]urprise, I don't know whether it was deliberate. I found myself as six months on deferred service. This was May 1942. We've got to I didn't go in the RAF till December 42. And Charlie at that time was working was living rather at denim. And his wife, who had been in the industry years before had gon[…]
[…] those days. remembers the little boy playing on the biliard room roof. So the first daylight air raid on London was the formation of Gotha aircraft coming over to a big V shaped formation making a funny humming noise. bombing raid, you know, in daylight feed, you know. And our first saw[…]
[…] bad flyer and he knows that I've been in the RAF and I was a good fly in those days […]
[…]tbin. And he said ‘what are you doing in my dustbin?’ So he said ‘dancing sir’. So he said ‘Ah, I don’t want you mucking about with RAF property and he sort of walked away and there was a glimmer of a grin on his face as he walked away, you know. But I always remember that.&n[…]
