[…] in such a confined area. And I remember coming back on one Sunday when I'd been out walking around Cheddar and on the bus coming in the the anti-aircraft fire got higher and higher in the sky as a raid was in full flight. And I remember walking up from the town centre up towards Whiteladies Road wh[…]
[…]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&[…]
[…]dad as camera operator; offered his services during the war as Commissioned Officer but was too young; he joined as an ordinary photographer; trained RAF school of photography at Blackpool; SS was posted to Leeming.00:10:00 – 00:10:50 SS was to photograph the RAF in colour with Oscar Deutsch (then c[…]
[…]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 […]
[…]he search lights and that was the last thing I want him to go and search lights I said no no I don't want that you know put me in the I'm putting the raft and I never honestly thought I would go in be called a Navy because that was the top one you know you could always come out the Navy the others b[…]
