CRASH LANDING AT GATWICK AIRPORT during World War Two
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Interviewee name: Wing Commander Bob Foster
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Wing Commander Bob Foster was born in 1920. He decided to join the Royal Air Force Voluntary Reserve in January 1939. He flew a Hurricane fighter in the Battle of Britain but had an unlikely landing after one sortie...
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1 Comment so far
from Stuart Prebble 28th Mar 2009, 05:37
What a lovely bloke. Great to see someone so apparently modest and self-depracating, but who has achieved so much. SP
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