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28 Apr 2015 16:03 #1
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Hello,
I'm the daughter of a former WWII airman, William E. Goodman - 'Bill' - who served in 7 Squadron at Oakington. Dad was an AG/WOp and served at Oakington on Stirlings from November 1941 until 6/7 June 1942 with the rest of the crew on W7471 MG-J until they were shot down over the Netherlands by Oblt. Ludwig Becker in the early hours. All the crew survived and spent the rest of the war as POWs in various camps.
[IMG]/community/159637=22389-Bill Goodman.jpg[/img] My interest in his wartime service came, sadly, too late for me to question him (how often have I heard/read about similar folk dismayed that they'd become interested too late!)... but luckily he wrote his memoirs before he died in 2002 and I had the war sections published in 2013.
[IMG]/community/159637=22390-Of Stirlings and Stalags cover of book.jpg[/img]
For myself... far less interesting than my father... I was a schoolteacher (Drama mainly but some English) in Derbyshire and retired in 2008... I now live mainly in Gibraltar and I sing and play guitar in pubs most weeks... as part of open mic sessions.
I'm the daughter of a former WWII airman, William E. Goodman - 'Bill' - who served in 7 Squadron at Oakington. Dad was an AG/WOp and served at Oakington on Stirlings from November 1941 until 6/7 June 1942 with the rest of the crew on W7471 MG-J until they were shot down over the Netherlands by Oblt. Ludwig Becker in the early hours. All the crew survived and spent the rest of the war as POWs in various camps.
[IMG]/community/159637=22389-Bill Goodman.jpg[/img] My interest in his wartime service came, sadly, too late for me to question him (how often have I heard/read about similar folk dismayed that they'd become interested too late!)... but luckily he wrote his memoirs before he died in 2002 and I had the war sections published in 2013.
[IMG]/community/159637=22390-Of Stirlings and Stalags cover of book.jpg[/img]
For myself... far less interesting than my father... I was a schoolteacher (Drama mainly but some English) in Derbyshire and retired in 2008... I now live mainly in Gibraltar and I sing and play guitar in pubs most weeks... as part of open mic sessions.
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28 Apr 2015 17:09 #2
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Welcome to AiX Gillyches and I hope you find plenty of interest here. I'm sure you've already found the Oakington page but if not then there's plenty in it, including photos of buildings that maybe your father would have used.
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28 Apr 2015 18:06 #3
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No Amount Of Evidence Will Ever Persuade An Idiot (probably not Mark Twain)
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Welcome Gillyches. It's good to see there are a lot of memoirs from aircrew who served, in the perceived, less glamorous side. I hope there will be more over the coming years as families research their parents and grandparents part in the war. My Dad is still going at 93 and his stories of being in the Home Guard at night and working all day long show how hard it must have been on the home front, despite the many humorous stories.
With you being a retired schoolteacher it reminded me that you never get to say thank you to the teachers that helped you as it is only years after that it dawns on you the contribution they made to your life. Most of my teachers had served in the forces during the war and shortly after and St Georges Day produced all the service uniforms (Officers or reserves only???). Some still wore gowns then.
With you being a retired schoolteacher it reminded me that you never get to say thank you to the teachers that helped you as it is only years after that it dawns on you the contribution they made to your life. Most of my teachers had served in the forces during the war and shortly after and St Georges Day produced all the service uniforms (Officers or reserves only???). Some still wore gowns then.
No Amount Of Evidence Will Ever Persuade An Idiot (probably not Mark Twain)
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15 Jun 2015 17:03 #4
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Hello , something in your message held my attention (only a bit more than the rest of course!) : "far less interesting than my father...". My father used to fly spitfires during the war I felt the same feeling all my life... (far less interesting than what he did!)
Interesting...
AF.
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Hello,
I'm the daughter of a former WWII airman, William E. Goodman - 'Bill' - who served in 7 Squadron at Oakington. Dad was an AG/WOp and served at Oakington on Stirlings from November 1941 until 6/7 June 1942 with the rest of the crew on W7471 MG-J until they were shot down over the Netherlands by Oblt. Ludwig Becker in the early hours. All the crew survived and spent the rest of the war as POWs in various camps.
[IMG]/community/159637=22389-Bill Goodman.jpg[/img] My interest in his wartime service came, sadly, too late for me to question him (how often have I heard/read about similar folk dismayed that they'd become interested too late!)... but luckily he wrote his memoirs before he died in 2002 and I had the war sections published in 2013.
[IMG]/community/159637=22390-Of Stirlings and Stalags cover of book.jpg[/img]
For myself... far less interesting than my father... I was a schoolteacher (Drama mainly but some English) in Derbyshire and retired in 2008... I now live mainly in Gibraltar and I sing and play guitar in pubs most weeks... as part of open mic sessions.
Hello , something in your message held my attention (only a bit more than the rest of course!) : "far less interesting than my father...". My father used to fly spitfires during the war I felt the same feeling all my life... (far less interesting than what he did!)
Interesting...
AF.
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