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Bryanj:
Still got family in tupsarse mate

Laverda Dave:
I was lucky enough to be invited to Bomber Command at High Wycombe a few weeks ago for a private tour. We were allowed into the old office of Arthur Harris, what an amazing room, everything original including the desk, chair, blotter, grandfather clock and the sqwark box. It was as though he had just got up and left the room. It smelt really musty like you'd expect something 1940’s to smell like. Harris never took a single day off in the three years he was head of Bomber Command. He started work every day at 1pm and would go down into the command bunker about 6-7pm when the bombers took off for their targets and he would stay until every Bomber had landed back at their squadron base or if shot down they were accounted for. He wouldn't leave the bunker until 5-6am the next day.

Bryanj:
Very much a maligned man Harris, you have to delve to see the real person. He was given a job and did it to the best of his ability,
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McCabe-Thiele (Ted):
Bomber Harris like Churchill very much a man of his time - the Nazis did not follow any rules of war that existed at the time - murdering civilians and fear was their stock in trade - force is all they understood.

K2-K6:
Theres a Barnes Wallace memorial near you Dave in Harmondsworth village. I dont know the significance of location there but came across it when visiting the churchyard in which my grandparents are buried.

http://www.sirbarneswallis.com/Links.htm many links but doesn't seem to include that site.

The history of these men and aircraft obviously intertwined.

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