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Old 20th February 2005 | 20:30
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Unfortunately the bug up the bum refered to Benson and this is JHC so the question was passed off to Land like !!!!! off the proverbial.

I was at the Waddington Dining-In night and still green and wet behind the ears. Err the night was out I was wet elsewhere too. Good night with the complete opposite meted out to Gus Walker, the reknowned Rugby International referee who had lost an arm trying to save the crew of a crashed Lancaster. It is sad that he lost his arm in vane as they had alreadt escaped before the ac blew up.

We thought it a jolly good diner. Higher up they thought it was a mutiny. In perspective it was only 9 years after the crash at Heathrow.

Also in perspective, it was Broadhurst that moved Bomber Command from the somewhat staid and ponderous organisation to the quick reaction and fast generation organisation that could operate with virtually no support from dispersed locations throughout the UK and whose crew could turn the aircraft around without assistance.
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