[…]adron, and eventually was trained to be something slightly higher up the technicians ladder, and I was sitting on the main plane of my Wellington aircraft that I looked after doing some fabric bashing One fine Day, and the flight sergeant came out of the hangar office, and he shouted up at me. He sa[…]
[…]r. That's so that was that. So while I was in the industry and I Paddy Cunningham was the sound camera operator who was due for call up went into the RAF. I took over a sound camera operator on a Pm 45 RCA What was known as portables? It took about three people to carry it plus an amplifier and god […]
[…], also from the Plaza, Worthing.And Basil Fortesque was then left with nobody in his projection box. The film we were showing incidentally was called Raffles, starring David Niven. And, I said “I can do this”. And for two days I ran the box at the Luxor, Lancing. And I mean, I ran it. There was nobo[…]
[…] of the first ever air type version of the Officers Training Corps, which was common at that time. And I had done a set amount of flying in aircraft of the RAF, and was offered immediate Commission, which I turned down and took me ordinary Turner starting off in the ranks and finally ended up […]
[…] in which the composer wasfrom the union's point of view, not perhaps a particularly credible member and the accs the arrangers who were the sort of Craftsman they, they were easy for the union to protect them. They were there, they got a job. He has his tube, you arrange it for three horns and a li[…]
[…] Owen Rutter says is a little bit piqued that the RAF, after 'Target for Tonight' is getting all the glamour, […]
[…] Owen Rutter says is a little bit piqued that the RAF, after 'Target for Tonight' is getting all the glamour, […]
[…], I was just a few days too old for that, so obviously when the war broke out I was just the right age for the call-up and I tried to get it into the RAF thinking with my great knowledge of photography I would be useful to them. But the RAF were very snooty in those days and I of course I spoke, I h[…]
[…] Anyway, I came out of the London clinic on the morning of May the 10th 1941. I was taken by Mama to Hamleys and bought some soldiers and an anti-aircraft gun and some sandbags and I was going to convalesce for three weeks from the following day down at Upper Parrick. May 10th 1941 you may not remem[…]
[…] incapable of answering. He said, "What have you been reading lately, Jackson?" And it so happened that I'd been reading a book on [laughs] 'Anti Aircraft Fire' by General Graver [?details correct?]! I'd been reading a most interesting book! "No!" he said, "I'm not interested in that!"John Legard: [[…]
