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catwhoorg -> RAF Ranchi (3/4/2013 1:55:15 PM)
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This weekend just passed I was visiting my late wifes family, and had the joys of browsing through some of her grandfathers war momentos from his time in India.
He had an album full of photographs of his time there, mainly based at RAF Ranchi, with some excursions to Calcutta, Darjeeeling and up into the hills (Chakrata IIRC).
He was ground crew/mechanic and mainly work on Beaufighters.
I would have loved to have scanned some, but the album is rather fragile and it would have been too risky.
Fascinating family future heirloom, which will keep those memories alive for a long time I hope.
He had a very different wartime compared to her other grandfather, who was captured at Singapore. He never talked about his experiences with the family, and I mean never.
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