On 8 June 1946, George VI sent this message to every schoolchild in Britain: “To-day as we celebrate victory, I send this personal message to you and all other boys and girls at school. For you have shared in the hardships and dangers of a total war and you have shared no less in the…
A young boy’s wartime idol. One day, when I was five, I asked a fighter pilot how the undercarriage on his Hurricane worked. “Be in the garden tomorrow and I will show you,” he said. The garden was of the Three Horseshoes pub in the village of Great Parndon, some eight miles from North Weald…
