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5 Bfts Association Newsletter No 11 - September, Jenifer A. Harding
5 Bfts Association Newsletter No 11 - September, Jenifer A. Harding
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“The Sky’s the Limit” – the theme for the 2018 Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo at Edinburgh Castle celebrated RAF100. The show included the history of flight; from birds through balloons to piston-powered flight, jets, rockets and space flight. We were there on one of the five nights when RAF Lossiemouth provided a Typhoon flypast. It was a very special event in a very special year commemorating achievement, courage and sacrifice.
I felt very proud to have known many of the 5BFTS RAF cadets. And knowing how they felt about the generosity of the Americans they met, the evening was made …
5 Bfts Association Newsletter No 10 - March, Jenifer A. Harding
5 Bfts Association Newsletter No 10 - March, Jenifer A. Harding
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As I write this, I am looking out of the window onto a very snowy scene – for the third time since New Year, we struggle to drive down our road. It’s rather cold for March. Which makes me think of Clewiston where the temperature is hitting 28°C or 82°F just now – very pleasantly warm!
Hugo Trotter (Co 11) was in Clewiston in March 1943. Hugo has allowed me to see his photograph album containing photographs taken between September 1942 and May 1943 (between arriving in Canada as a cadet and leaving Canada as a pilot). Wonderful memories for …
5 Bfts Association Newsletter No 12 - Christmas, Jenifer A. Harding
5 Bfts Association Newsletter No 12 - Christmas, Jenifer A. Harding
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One hundred years ago, at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, the guns stopped firing and the ‘War to end all Wars’ was over. More than 16 million people had died; almost 7 million were civilians.
In his 1918 book “The Fourth Year”, the writer HG Wells used the phrase “The War to end War” (or ‘the War to end all Wars’). Woodrow Wilson, US President 1913 to 1921, linked these words with the phrase, "make the world safe for democracy", to support his conviction that US entry into WW1 was necessary to preserve human …