'My father never, ever talked about the war'
His son, Eddy, said: "My father never, ever talked about the war and it wasn't until the year before he died that I really ...
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Celebrated pilot, navigator and prisoner of war: the incredible story of one of Britain’s first black airmen, Johnny Smythe
When the Second World War broke out, Johnny Smythe was 25 years old and working in an office in Freetown, in British Sierra Leone. When he spotted posters recruiting for the local defence force ...
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'My father never, ever talked about the war'
Johnny Smythe was a hero of World War Two and one of 60 West Africans to serve in the RAF "It's difficult to articulate how I feel, because it's just so immense and I'm so grateful to Thame Museum." ...