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Old 21st Sep 2015, 16:21
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1.3VStall
 
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The staggering thing about Geoffrey Wellum is that by the tender age of 19 he had fought in the Battle of Britain and was posted to a Spitfire training unit as a rest from operations. When I look at my two lads at Uni - 18 and 21 - it really makes me think about what those "boys" did 75 years ago!
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