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Peter Clare
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1 Jun 1941
- No. 120 Sqn, RAF Coastal Command, forms at
Nutts Corner, Northern Ireland, with American-built Liberator long-range maritime patrol aircraft. Also, Air Vice-Marshal Arthur Tedder is appointed AOC-in-C of RAF Middle East Command.
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On weald of Kent I watched once more
Again I heard that grumbling roar
Of fighter planes; yet none were near
And all around the sky was clear
Borne on the wind a whisper came
'Though men grow old, they stay the same'
And then I knew, unseen to eye
The ageless Few were sweeping by
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