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Hi,
I am Robert Hornby (Bob) and served my apprenticeship with the Bristol Aeroplane Company, in both Lancashire and Filton Bristol,working on the Bristol Hercules and Centaurus Engines from 1941 to 1944, also on Beaufighters and Swordfish. 1944 I joined the RAF, (RAFVR) and was Instrument Rep, served at RAF LIndholme on Lancasters, then posted to RAF 617 Squadron, Scampton, (Lancasters) then Squadron was re-equiped with the AVRO Lincoln, and we moved to RAF Binbrook, Grimsby, and formed RAF 617 Squadrons Goodwill Mission to the USA/Canada, July/Sept 1947. I have written the History of that Goodwill Tour, and it is available if anyone is interested, more especially those who served with that mission, or their relatives/friends. I have managed to contact 14 survivors, with whom I am in contact. Thereafter I did various engineering jobs, and ended my working life at Heathrow Airport.
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