A writer with his head in the sky, if not the clouds.
Military & aviation history
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More WW2
Took my 21st C aircraft yesterday to meet some of its earlier (and noisier) siblings. The sound of four Merlins, and later six, is incomparable.
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New review – World at War magazine
“Paul Smiddy has written a gripping and lavishly detailed book about magnificent men in their flying machines.” “Smiddy has done his research and he describes with panache” [how SOE was conceived, operated, and transported].”
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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…