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Old 22nd Jan 2019, 08:31
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GeeRam
 
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Shame they didn't identify the date Lt.Cdr Richardson was KIA, and whether it was the single Hellcat lost during Op Tungsten in April '44, or one of the ones lost during one of the 3 x Op Goodwood attacks in August '44?
When a school boy, our next door neighbour had served in the RN all through the war on MTB's, and went with them when they moved from the Med up to Norway at the end of the war, and he had a photo of himself taken standing on the upturned hull of the mighty Tirpitz, and for years he had a small piece of it sitting on a shelf in his garage!
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