Letters
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Always Prepared
On this
page are two letters, one each from two members of the crew
Sgt. John Goodwin and Sgt. Stephen Preston.
Sgt. John
Goodwin - 27 June 1943
In John's letter to his sister, he describes
the night they were bombed from above by probably another Lancaster. As he
is relating his experiences in the letter, you can feel the excitement or
even terror that he felt when the incident happened. There is very little
punctuation in his description and he seems to describe the whole incident
in one breath.
The letter is as follows....
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Click HERE to read newspaper article of the incident
Sgt.
Stephen Preston
This letter is the final letter that the
parents of Sgt. Stephen Preston received from their son. It is the letter
that all airmen and men from the other services, left in places, like their
locker or a table near their bed and was to be sent to their next of kin if
they succumbed to the finality of war.
the final letter....
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