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[…]nd we were rubbing on the drums each frame so many times to get this salt off them. FL: I volunteered for the RAF and got called up immediately war broke out and didn't return to Technicolor until April 1946. I was&[…]

[…] there I went to cardigan.Unknown Speaker  18:03  And cardigan, I went, hello, the basic training area of electric, electrical work for aircraft. Then from there I was shipped to,Unknown Speaker  18:18  let's think down a marketUnknown Speaker  18:21  the drone there wi[…]

[…]as a customs officer; he became a clerical officer in the civil service at the Air Ministry, moving to London in 1951; 1952 – National Service in the RAF as a clerk; at 21 he went back to the Air Ministry for eight months before looking for a new career; as a youngster he would not be allowed to go […]

[…]ear at Ilfracombe; KA talks about his time at the camp in Ilfracombe where they taught basic military training with no arms; he kept applying for the RAF during this period and was successful in 1941, moving to Scarborough for training; there were a number of well know personalities at the camp in I[…]

[…]ght one way out of this hell would be by so I went into the Air Cadets, and I started to learn everything I could about flying. And I joined the, the RAF reserve when I was 17. And a bit and was put on deferred service and I so I learned to fly gliders I could. I was taught by the people at the Poli[…]