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DIARY NOTES
Location
12 Operational Training Unit Chipping-Warden, near Banbury, northwest of London
Parade - Inspection
Livingstone - Johnston’s bomb aimer
Peardon - Johnston’s mid-upper gunner
Forty-eight - Two day leave (48 hours)
Kirsch - Canadian pilot and friend, who trained with Johnston, and was later posted to 90 Squadron at Tuddenham
Mess - Room where meals were eaten
Barbara - Johnston’s girlfriend in Ontario
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January 9, 1944 (Sunday)
The Flight Sergeant was on leave this morning so there was no parade. Had classes as usual and I met the rest of my crew. Livingstone (who seems to be very nice and comes from Edmonton), and Peardon (who seems very talkative, but otherwise okay).
Found out that our forty-eight starts Thursday night and Kirsch has written to reserve us rooms.
We went up to the mess about 6:50 and wrote letters. I finished my letter to Barbara – it finally ended up at nineteen pages when I ran out of pad. Hope there’s some mail for me on Monday.
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