Recorded interview of Eddie Clarke by Dick Wickham (second part of side B of microcassette) (MC 376/564/2b)
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Recorded interview of Eddie Clarke by Dick Wickham (second part of side B of microcassette)
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MC 376/564/2b
part of 1 side of microcassette
nd [late 1980s]
General documents relating to the activities of the 2nd Air Division/Wartime Norfolk/Dick Wickham's recordings of Norfolk residents
Dick Wickham, Eddie Clarke
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Recording starts at 13 minutes 10 seconds. Stories about experience of machine gun fire from German Heinkel aircraft and surrender of crew; holding up a dummy mission of the 392nd Bomb Group at Wendling by driving around the airstrip and being fined by Military Police; friendship with Russell 'Pappy' Moore and the naming of his B-24 'Daily Trips' after an improvised toilet in Honeypot Wood; injured by a tailgate on a truck after lunch with a Technical Sergeant who drove away before it was fixed and hit him on the head. Brief reflections on the remains of Wendling airfield. For preceding recording, see MC 376/564/1.