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Christmas 1944. RAF Bengal India

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I had been working hard the preceding three months leading up to Xmas ’44.Apart from my normal duties as Corporal i/c Instrument Repairers on ‘B’ Flight, 159 Squadron (Liberators) at RAF Digri in Bengal, India, somehow I had become saddled with the job of producing a show for Christmas.Looking back I find it hard to believe, as I had no previous…

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