22448 Miles Royal Air Force 17 O.T.U. Congratulations on this superb project - a pity it wasn t available a few years ago when my father and his friends who served in the RAF throughout the war were still alive, and he had a fantastic memory for detail. However, as my mother and I followed my father around from RAF station to station I have some recollections of these places. In particular I was smuggled by my father into RAF Silverstone when it was the home of 17 OTU. I was about six years of age at the time, but the memories of the place are still vivid. I slept in my father s billet, ate in the mess, and visited the hangar where he worked - one of the few hangars which still exists at Silverstone today. I was also taken up in a Wellington Bomber on a post major trail flight. Terrifying! My uncle also served in the RAF as a navigator in Lancasters, eventually being lost in a raid
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