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1949

Battle of Britain ‘At Home’ 17th September 1949

The following are scans of  the programme for RAF Watton’s Battle of Britain At Home Day for Saturday 17th September 1949. Interestingly there are some errors in the History of RAF…

Peter Long’s brief history of Watton – 1949

With the Berlin Airlift in full flow and the realisation that Russia wasn’t as technologically inferior to the West as had been thought, the CSE was under great pressure to…

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You have been graced with the courage, the sacrifice, and finally the lives of those who died so that you might live. They have nothing more to offer. But you do. You can live in a way that proves worthy of their sacrifices. Respond not out of guilt but out of gratitude, honoring what they have done.
Philip Yancey: Reaching for the Invisible God.
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