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Dear Mr Smith
My daughter, who is 10, is doing a project at school on certain times and events during WW2. We came across your site by accident after searching for information about recycling during the war.  We have really enjoyed reading your site and looking at the various pictures. In fact we got far more info here than from lots of other sites. So we just wanted to say "Thank-you" Yours sincerely Tracey & Georgia- Mae Evans

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Dear Len,
I don't know why but I felt like crying when I saw the site you had created on my behalf on the Aircrew Notice Board. It's not because of realising it's a long shot because I'm ever optimistic. I believe my emotion sprang from the care which you clearly take in presenting the requests for family like myself. I'm sure many people are very grateful for your consideration. Thank you. I always support the poppy appeal but your efforts have touched me. I hope I don't come across as materialistic but perhaps you would appreciate a donation either for the running of the site or to the RAF Benevolent Fund ?
Eleri.

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Hi Len
Thanks to your wonderful World War 2 site I am now in contact with my Flight Engineer of 60 years ago. It has been a very pleasing experience and I cannot praise your website enough. Thanks again and my best wishes for your success in the future. Regards Bernard Nelson (Ex 619 Squadron Bomber Command.)

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Thank you so much for giving me some ideas and info. you did help me a lot, more than you probably realise. you gave me a lot more things to go on.
Thanks  Len
kind regards. Claire

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A big thank you for your earlier email.  The whole family found it very exciting.  So interesting. Please take this in the spirit it is intended, but I would like to make a donation to a charity of your choosing to say thank you for the time and trouble you have taken.  It's wonderful to know that there are people out there that are willing to spend time solving family mysteries. 
Kim

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Dear Len - many, many thanks for your kindness I am so grateful - it is something I have wondered about for years.
Norman

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This is excellent information, more than I was hoping for. My father will be really chuffed. We have already got his grave details but thank you anyway. I think it will be nice to see the graves of the crew as well.
Mark

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Since I contacted you,and your efforts on my behalf re Ex 4 Group, 102 squadron Gus Walker etc I have had E Mails from all over the world.they have been mostly from Sons & daughters of ex 102 squadron veterans. One father remembers me as 102 Squadron  Gunnery Leader. All remember Gus Walker. They were like me seeking info. One however who was born in Gus's parents house in Garforth in Leeds gave me the key to the whole jig saw puzzle.
Larry

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Thank you and it is a pleasure to congratulate you on such a worthwhile and important site. Every year our servicemen and women pass away and it is through work like yours that their memory stays with us all, finally I would simply like to say that the brave never die, they live on in history, forever!
Regards,
David

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My dearest Len,
There are no words for the kindness and help you have shown to me. I never would have belived that people like you still exist who care so much for other people. I only wish Bill was here to meet you. The information you found was something I have wondered about for years and to have actually met someone who knew him is beyond belief. Had it not been for you none of this would have been possible. God bless you
Jean

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thank you so much for the infomation, it is absolutely brilliant that you were able to find this information and very kind of you to spare your time and effort.
Gary

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it turns out that Sgt. Giffard is alive and one of his friends noticed the(your) web post. We've been in touch and I've recieved a lot of info from him. thanks for your help this has been great so far.
Dan

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Dear Len

Jack and I are delighted with the details you have placed on the site about his Uncle Jack.  I have found doing this and looking through your site quite moving. 
Ena

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Good news for me Len ! and I hope this will reinforce the spirit of encouragement you offer those of us that approach your web-site. I must be one of the luckiest little piglets on the planet, having found my long-lost Canadian cousins just last spring, I've managed to trace the 'missing' cousin,
Eleri

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In February last, I asked you to post a query, which you kindly did. May I just  let you know that I have just received a reply from the elder brother of one of the aircrew casualties on the aircraft involved. Thank you very much for your help, I'm looking forward to further responses.
Nick

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Thanks for the Newsletter. I found it most interesting. This morning I had my first email in response to the information on your notice board.
Esme

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Just a quick thank-you.  Because you so kindly put the details of my Uncle on the Aircrew Notice board site I've been contacted by the relative of one of the other crew members.  It was quite a thrill as I didn't really think that, after all this time, it would bear fruit.  So, many thanks again for your efforts on my behalf.
Penny

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Hi,
Just a quick e-mail to say thanks for posting a notice for me on your board some time ago. Someone contacted me with some very useful information as a result. Thanks,
Alison

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Just to let you know: Today we took my father in law, Alf Watts, to the Pathfinder Museum at RAF Wyton where he was pleased to find his brother Stan's name in the RAF Gravely Roll of Honour book F/Sgt S.G.Watts. He also saw some small bits which had been recovered from from the actual aircraft his brother died in. We then went on to Gravely and had lunch in The Three Horse shoes pub. Then on to the crash site courtesy of a retired farmer who saw the crash happen on the 18th November 1944. All in all a very memorable day and due initially to the immense help you gave us by supplying the information which led us on to all this. A great big 'thank you' to you and the site for such magnificent help. My father in Law said he felt  closer to his brother than he had been since his death 60 years ago and never dreamt that he could visit the site of his demise. Thanks again, Chris

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Dear Len,
A brief note to say that, thanks to your good offices,  I have had a contact from the son of an RAF officer who flew with my brother Donald, and that more or less on the anniversary of his death.  I have written back, sending  photo, but have had no reply as yet, although the original information was fascinating and we hope for more. . Yours, Stuart Monard.

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Dear Len,
Many thanks for the posting of my request for information on Sgt Charlie McGough. Through this posting and other request on other web sites both myself and Charlies Nephew have managed to get info on the surviving members of the Q-Queenie crash. You might be interested to know that one of them was a Charlie Churchill of the Ausburg raid. His widow and other RAF personnel have contacted Charlie McGoughs nephew and filled in the missing details of his uncles RAF career. He is now putting the final finishes to a book he has written dedicated to his Uncle. Also in the book 'An Illustrated History of RAF Waddington' there is a section describing the end of Q-Queenie by Charlie Churchill. The other survivors were Jock Glynn and George Wylie. Once again thank you very much and good luck with the web site. May it assist others as it has assisted myself. Best Regards Phillip Evans

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Dear Len,
I was so thrilled to receive an enquiry so quickly in response to my request on your web site  regarding my old schoolboy friend Sgt Pilot Kevin Desmond ENNIS.  The reply came from his 47 year old great nephew who tapped into Google and found your site.  He's over the moon to discover so much about his great Uncle Kevin and has promised to send me photos of Kevin (my next door neighbour) and his family. This is just to say what a fantastic job you are doing Len - please keep up the good work because you are bringing so much pleasure to so many of us ex-RAF members. Yours appreciatively David Luff

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Hi Len,
Just thought I would let you know that I have received an email from the son of a fellow crew member on my Uncle's flight. He has been trying to find a contact for years. He is 72 now. He is delighted to have made contact.
Amazing what your site can do. Many thanks indeed. Best wishes, Mike

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I thought you would like to know that I just had a reply to my posting rHis Great Nephew in Canada contacted me, and I have been able to give him a lot of info. about his Great Uncle, who flew with my father's cousin.
Thanks Len! Jenny.

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In February last, on Page 28, you were kind enough to post a request from me with reference to Thomas Walter Brandon, one of the two survivors of the accident to DK244 on 18th November 1943. I am delighted to tell you that I have just heard from his wife who spotted my request on your site. Another success ! I believe that I also mentioned some time ago that I am in contact with the brother of one of the other crew members, Peter Elldred. All in all, a very successful effort, more power to your elbow !
All good wishes, Nick

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Dear Len, Just thought I would let you know that I have managed to trace Gilbert Haworth who was a Nav/w/op on Hampdens, with my father. I have had a long conversation with his daughter, who said her |Dad remembers my old man, and his log book confirms they flew to-gether many times. Thanks for your help, it came about as a result of your entry. Keep up the good work.
Regards, Lester.

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Dear Len a million thanks for the time and devotion you dedicate to your site I am now thanks to you in touch with the Brother of the Flight Engineer who lost hids life together with my Brother when Halifax LV825G crashed in 1944. Thanks again. Harold

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Hi Len,
I thought I would drop you a line just to say thanks for all the help you provide via the web site and to let you know of a reply I have had from the posting you so kindly included on the site.
I have just received communication from relatives of Colin Mctaggart Shannon who was killed in the same plane as Fred.
Once again thanks
Nick

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Hi len - thanks for the newsletter.. i thought you'd like a BIG update - i've been studying for exams at work the last couple of weeks and checked my email today for the first time in ages ... and there were a couple of surprise email s.... one was from gordon smith and his wife who were mentioned tom maclachlan who had originally been on wilf's crew - apparently wif was nicknamed andy!!!! and the other was an even bigger surprise. ... tom brophy who i believe is my dad's cousin (and who was at school with my uncle phil - by gran's 2nd marriage) who has loads of information and another photo!!!!
Lindsey

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Hi all I'm pleased to report that my grandad has found a member of his crew through your website and he is very happy. He said it was the best xmas present ever! After emails were exchanged I showed grandad an email printout and he phoned the contact straight away - were all very chuffed with the results. They hadn't seen each other for nearly sixty years!
Tony

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Len Thanks to your website, I have been contacted by a pilot from 137 squadron and through him have contacted two groundcrewmen.  One remembers my father and both provided lots of info about the squadron. So many thanks for setting up the site
Charles Shepherd

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Great news.  The posting about my uncle RAAF Sgt. Philip Crittenden on your site brought an email several days ago from the 16-year-old grandson of Air Gunner PGEA Brown, the sole survivor of the RAAF Squadron 458 Wellington that crashed Oct 20, 1941 in Belgium.  Air Gunner Brown has passed on, but his grandson has shared his family's knowledge of how he escaped the plane, his subsequent POW experiences, and copies of POW diary pages and Red Cross correspondence related to this. It has been an incredible and rewarding experience. Thank you for your work and your role in this.

Jules

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Dear Len, Just to let you know that I have had contact from the Grandson of Fl Lt Ernest Ronald Abbott(Abdul) who flew with father on numerous occasions, Abdul died six years ago. I also had contact with an Australia lady whose great Uncle flew with father, P/O John Bartlett Bull, Bull was killed in 1940 and father wanted to go and search the North Sea for him but the C/O wouldnt let him. I also had contact with a man named Cordle, whose relative was Sgt Ralph Sunei Wallace Cordle, who also flew with father on several occasions. Ralphs wife and young son moved to USA, he is only a distant relative but knows alittle about the family. All these contacts came about through your web-site for which I am grateful, hardly a day goes by when I dont visit it. Thanks for all you do, alot of people appreciate the work you do, I just wish you could have abit more luck with your own searches. Regards, Lester

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Dear Len,
Once again, thanks for your help with publishing my Uncle's details, and the work you do on the website. His details have been listed for less than a week, and I have already been contacted by a local from the village where my Uncle's Lancaster crashed.  We have been able to exchange info and details not known by either of us previously.
Living in Australia would normally have made this exercise either near impossible, or prohibitively expensive.
Greg

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