DUKE OF KENT WITH BOMBER CREWS WHO RAIDED HAMBURG, AND THEIR MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL - (Picture issued 1942) RAF maintenance crews, although their work is less spectacular and less publicised than that of pilots, perform duties of paramount important to effective flying opertaions and the success of the great bombing raids over Germany. Recently Air Commodore, the Duke of Kent, visited an RAF bomber station, where he met pilots and crews who had participated in the heavy attacks on Hamburg, and also talked with members of the ground staff personnel. The Duke of Kent hearing at first hand the sto
DUKE OF KENT WITH BOMBER CREWS WHO RAIDED HAMBURG, AND THEIR MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL - (Picture issued 1942) RAF maintenance crews, although their work is less spectacular and less publicised than that of pilots, perform duties of paramount important to effective flying opertaions and the success of the great bombing raids over Germany. Recently Air Commodore, the Duke of Kent, visited an RAF bomber station, where he met pilots and crews who had participated in the heavy attacks on Hamburg, and also talked with members of the ground staff personnel. The Duke of Kent hearing at first hand the stories of some of the men who gave Hamburg "a present from the " Royal Air Force
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