World War 2 structure on Halnaker Hill cc-by-sa/2.0 - © Dave Spicer - geograph.org.uk/p/2969474 |
- Normandy landings
- Wireless Telegraphy
- Read: stolen from the farm
- Ground Control Interception Unit 15056
- Pilot officer
For other 'entertainment' - so the story my father told a number of times goes - a group of them went to the local town (it might even have been the otherwise dead Chichester) one night and presumably much alcohol was subsequently imbibed. They woke up the next morning with brass plaques that had been "liberated" from the town, adorning the fronts of all their tents. As the CO had been one of the drinking party, they were "ordered" to return the plaques the following night. Whether they went back in the right places, or the vet became the doctor, or the solicitor a dentist, is unclear.
Leading aircraftman (LAC) Charles Francis (Frank) Stone (1923-2001), my father, wrote this Forbidden Diary (i.e. they'd been told NOT to keep diaries and the fact that it exists tells you all you need to know), as a 21 year old in 1944. (Entries are transcribed exactly as written, mistakes included. Attitudes are very much 'of their time'.)