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Jameswsr


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Yes the people in England were always nice to us,we lived off base and learned alot from our English neighbors about England and its culture. Anytime we were having a cook out we always had the neighbors to join in and found out they liked hambugers, steaks and other American outdoors cooking just like us, but they enjoyed being part of our group and found out that all americans are not rich. They said they were always told we were rich and did not like to talk with them. More to come later.



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Had my own flypast at 12 Noon today, nice of the Yanks to give me a flypast of one of their Sikorsky HH-60G Pave Hawk choppers at The Suffolk Yacht Harbour at Levington



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I am enjoying the pics you are posting, makes me want to come back and live at Mildenhall just cannot get my wife to agree, she enjoyed her visit this past year however she says it to far from family.

I am still looking for pics from  1967 thru 1971 of the base and especially the passenger terminal as that is where I worked.



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William E. Johnson having made a phone call to his wife, embarked on HMS Orion in New York and headed for Glasgow. From their he went to Groxhill where he was given his P47 Thunderbolt ( Kitten ). He eventually finished up at Martlesham Heath in Suffolk as a member of the 360th Squadron of the 356th Fighter Group. He was billeted at Playford Hall, nearby. From that day in New York William wrote a journal, addressed to his Wife and totalled 32 pages. In this very moving document he talks about losing comrades, his feeling when he made his first of 5 kills and that the person he had killed was maybe some ones husband or father. he talks about how he might not come home and gradually prepares himself and his wife for that fact. H says that he had left a seed at home, his wife being pregnant with Rod.
The suddenly it stops. William was hit by friendly fire as he was chasing a ME109 through a formation of USAAF bombers over France. A copy of this was made into a book with other photographs and documents, and Rod sent it to me. A special service was held in June this year in that town in France by the locals. Williams remains were repatriated in 1949 back to the US.
Last night I present this book to Martyn Cook, Chairman of MHAS and it will have its own place in our control tower museum.
The photo is of this presentation.
photo by Tony G.

 



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