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Rangers in World War II
By Robert W Black
The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The History of the Wartime Codebreaking Centre by the Men and Women Who Were There
By Sinclair McKay
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<blockquote data-quote="nick70" data-source="post: 49326" data-attributes="member: 32622"><p>I'm not sure how helpful I can be, but Bill was a friend of my father's (b.1922). *When his mother moved to lowes avenue in the early 1970s, bill and he became reacquainted. My own mother thinks they met during training during the war. *He wasn't in the RAF, but in the Fleet Air Arm and served as a telegraphist air gunner in swordfish. *It is possible that they met in the UK (again, during training - my father was subsequently posted to Gibralter and then, later on, to Scotland) or they may even have had some shared local history. *I don't know. *I was only a child I'm the 1970s but I do remember Lea (?) who sometimes went on driving practice with my mother. *I have a vague recollection of going into their bungalow and being shown some 617 memorabilia. *Unfortunately, my father died 2 years ago. *He would of course have had all the details to hand, and could have explained how he knew Bill. *His name was Ron Gallent and was in the Fleet Air Arm between 1941 and 1945. *They may have trained on wireless together, at Worthy Down maybe?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nick70, post: 49326, member: 32622"] I'm not sure how helpful I can be, but Bill was a friend of my father's (b.1922). *When his mother moved to lowes avenue in the early 1970s, bill and he became reacquainted. My own mother thinks they met during training during the war. *He wasn't in the RAF, but in the Fleet Air Arm and served as a telegraphist air gunner in swordfish. *It is possible that they met in the UK (again, during training - my father was subsequently posted to Gibralter and then, later on, to Scotland) or they may even have had some shared local history. *I don't know. *I was only a child I'm the 1970s but I do remember Lea (?) who sometimes went on driving practice with my mother. *I have a vague recollection of going into their bungalow and being shown some 617 memorabilia. *Unfortunately, my father died 2 years ago. *He would of course have had all the details to hand, and could have explained how he knew Bill. *His name was Ron Gallent and was in the Fleet Air Arm between 1941 and 1945. *They may have trained on wireless together, at Worthy Down maybe? [/QUOTE]
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