airborne_artist
13th Dec 2007, 07:57
Full obituary (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/12/13/db1301.xml&DCMP=EMC-new_13122007)
"John Hereford, who has died aged 82, was a German brought up in the Jewish faith; during the Second World War he completed a full tour in bombers over Germany as a wireless operator disrupting the Luftwaffe's night fighter operations by jamming their control frequencies.
Hereford was a member of a small group of aircrew known as "spec ops" (special operators). Of this group, a number were Jews, some of them from Germany. They flew as the eighth member of a bomber crew occupying a screened-off, lonely and unheated position in the rear of the aircraft where they used specialised and highly secret radio equipment."
Nice to see one of the less well-known trades getting recognition.
"John Hereford, who has died aged 82, was a German brought up in the Jewish faith; during the Second World War he completed a full tour in bombers over Germany as a wireless operator disrupting the Luftwaffe's night fighter operations by jamming their control frequencies.
Hereford was a member of a small group of aircrew known as "spec ops" (special operators). Of this group, a number were Jews, some of them from Germany. They flew as the eighth member of a bomber crew occupying a screened-off, lonely and unheated position in the rear of the aircraft where they used specialised and highly secret radio equipment."
Nice to see one of the less well-known trades getting recognition.