EDDIE HANCOCK


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BOMBING and Gunnery School, Penrhos,

N Wales. Eddie left with "Symmons."

 HELL`S MOUTH, North Wales, march 1940 - the result of landing with brakes on. feb 1945, RAF Gianaclis, Alexandria. F/O ARCHER 

shows what a tropical rainstorm will do to a sand aerodrome. we were u/s for several weeks.

 Allies propaganda postcard
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S/LDR DON CROSSLEY D.C. "B" flight 70 sqdn. L.G. 140, JAN 1943

later "bought it" on Turin raid.

 NO DETAILS P/Os MANN and STEPHENS sleeping under the

wing of a WIMPEY in the western desert after ops, dec 1940.

 P/0 JACK MANN in pyjamas attending to

his carrier pigeon, in a WIMP, somewhere in

the western desert during 1941. JACK was subsequently 

shot down and became a P.O.W.
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1940 in the desert with 38 squadron on WIMPS - getting a meal somehow! LEN DAY, WILLIE PARR, GRIFFITHS. Len and Griff both got "the chop." 38 Bomber Squadron, RAF the end of a hangar at 

Benina aerodrome, Benghazi. dec 1940

 this image is a little out of time here!! it`s 1934, and the RAF seaplane at the Cattewater, Plymouth 8.4.1934