After the six months,
Well, I must have got through that.
Then was sent to REF Cranwell
for the second part of the training,
which was another four months
course, how to tune and how to manipulate
radio sets which perhaps were working or
were not working, and how to
check all the wiring in the planes.
Eventually, after the four months, I
It would have been in 1944.
I was then sent to Church Lawford,
which was a very small place,
and And much to my disappointment,
which I didn't understand very much about
fish by planes from the first World War.
I thought, My goodness, I knew that we
But after a few months,
which was, again, in training command.
And there we had
Blenheim bombers and Anson bombers.
I'm told that there were
I also recently found out that before we
the station had actually was
And one wife, I remember, had been killed.
But they never mentioned it at all.
And I've only just found that out.
It was a very happy place.
The signal section was always quite small.
There were, I suppose,
There would have been one corporal who was
It didn't matter what was the matter
he would know what it was.
And it always went to him on the quiet.
I said, Have a look at this set.
There always was this gen of a man,
Then there always was this gen of a man,
And there was one sergeant in charge.
There was a signals officer, but we never
saw him, at least we rarely saw him.
I enjoyed my time there.
Our job every day was to do
DI's on any of the planes which were being
used to train officer cadets
on their way to earning their wings.
Every day, we had to go into either
and switch on if it and call up the
watchtower and say, How do you read me?
And give Abel Baker phoning and then
whatever their letters were.
And then saying, How do you read me?
And if they said, strength five,
If they didn't, if it's four, three, two,
You had to find out what the fault was.
Sometimes it was fairly easy.
We also had to examine and test all
the wiring in the aeroplane and to find
the press to talk buttons
If l the set was not repairable on site,
carry it
disconnect it, take it out to the single
section where we worked on it
