In remembrance of my late father who served in the Air Transport Auxiliary during WW2 - delivering planes all over the UK to help the RAF fight the good fight. In memory of my late step father who served in North Africa and he only ever talked about how he earned a shilling a day extra because he could speak French. My late father in law who was imprisoned by the Nazis in Poland - who escaped and made his way across Europe and then served with the allied forces. My mother in law who at age 12 in Poland in 1942 found herself totally alone as her father was dead and her mother was imprisoned by the Nazis. How she survived for 18 months I will never know. And I cannot forget my grandmother who lived near an American Air Force base in Maidenhead, England and, by all accounts, had a heck of a war!
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