William Strachan found that it wasn't as easy to sign-up to
the RAF as he'd thought. (sound
extract).
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William
Strachan was born in 1921 in Kingston Jamaica. His father
managed a tobacco company and was comfortably off. His father
was a leading layman in the Prespyterian Church and was vey
patriotic towards Britain. William was sent to a top boy's
school and graduated in December 1939 with the Higher School
Certificate. By March 1940 he had arrived in England to join
the RAF. He served as an air guinner and then a pilot in Bomber
Command.
Extract:
West
Indians in the RAF in Britain [.pdf]
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Mahindra
Singh Pujji was born in Simla in 1918. At the age of 17 he
trained as a pilot in Delhi. After seeing an advertisement
in an Indian newspaper in 1939 asking for pilots to join the
RAF, he joined up and came to |
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in August 1940.He
received a commission as a Pilot Officer and served in Fighter
Command in England, the Western Desert and later, Burma. In
February 1941 he became a Flight Commander. He was shot down
three times, and was awarded the DFC in April 1945. |
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The
BBC have recently interviewed Mahindra Singh Pujji - click
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