A writer with his head in the sky, if not the clouds.
Military & aviation history
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Commemorating RAF Newmarket
Earlier this week I attended the unveiling of a plaque and storyboard at Newmarket Race Course commemorating the site’s wartime history. As anyone who has read Moonlight Crusaders will know, it was where the 2 Special Duties Squadrons (nos. 138 & 161) were founded, and from where some of the earliest SD Lysander missions were…
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First bookshop talk for MC
Gave the first talk in a bookshop last week at Harris & Harris in the delightful if sweltering Suffolk village of Clare, which is not that far from Stradishall – which was briefly the home of the Special Duties squadron. A sold out event, and most enjoyable.
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RAF News
In the current edition.