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265154 F/Sgt. William Harry Billingham Royal Air Force Second Tactical Air Force from:Birmingham Bill Billingham joined the RAF in 1936 with a six month training at Uxbridge. After six months, he was posted to Peterborough No 7 Training School. At the beginning of 1938 he went to the armaments school at Eastchurch on the Isle of Sheppey. In the summer of 1938 was posted to Mildenhall as and armourer. Bill was a ‘dustbin’ turret read gunner and got 3d a day danger money. In May 1939 Bill was rear gunner on Wellington planes and again got 3d a day danger money. In July 1939 the squadron was involved in the celebrations for Bastille day and was stationed at Le Bourget. In 1940 Bill was stationed at Plymouth, moving to Amesbury later in 1941. Bill joined the Second Tactical Air Force and was away from home for eighteen months travelling through France, Belgium and Holland with the unit. Bill left the RAF in 1946. Please type your message:      We recommend you copy the text about this item and keep a copy on your own computer before pressing submit. Your Name:             Email Address:       @ **Please type the first part our your email in the first box (eg. john.smith) the @ sign is added automaticallly, please type the second part in the second box (eg. gmail.com). Do not enter your full email in each box or add an @ sign or random spaces.** Please type in the code shown here:    If you are unable to read the code please click here. If you have received an error message for incorrect code, please click to refresh the code before resending. This should overcome the error message.