Add Information to Record of a Person who served during the Second World War on The Wartime Memories Project Website

Add Information to Record of a Person who served during the Second World War on The Wartime Memories Project Website



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Alfred William Lapthorn

Royal Air Force 582 Squadron

from:Salcombe, Devon

My father Bill Lapthorn rarely talked about his wartime experiences when I was a child. Only much later did I realise how much danger he was in on each and every mission flying Lancasters over Germany. He talked fondly of aircrew colleagues, many of them Canadians such as Tiny Beasley. I have attached some extracts from his Flight Logbook detailing the 13 ops he took part in, including being shot at over Germany and limping back to crash land at Manston in Kent.



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