2 thoughts on “APO Dick Braithwaite 1 MFPU RIP Flight RAF Wildenrath Dec 1970”
Good grief, this is me!! I have just found myself after 50 years and I had totally forgotten having this picture taken. Went to Wildenrath in July ’70 when 3, 4 and 20 squadrons were changing over from Hunters to Harriers. I arrived 3 days before the annual airshow and before I knew it was selling souvenirs, RAF Band records and other ephemera whilst practising my schoolboy German to the crowds of visitors spending their D Marks. Very happy memories of Wildenrath, especially the Theatre Club and the Astra cinema where, to keep myself out of the NAAFI bar every night, I became head projectionist. Also learned to drive and took my driving test in Mönchengladbach. Wildenrath looks totally different now, but then, so do I. Ah well, hair today, gone tomorrow.
Good grief, this is me!! I have just found myself after 50 years and I had totally forgotten having this picture taken. Went to Wildenrath in July ’70 when 3, 4 and 20 squadrons were changing over from Hunters to Harriers. I arrived 3 days before the annual airshow and before I knew it was selling souvenirs, RAF Band records and other ephemera whilst practising my schoolboy German to the crowds of visitors spending their D Marks. Very happy memories of Wildenrath, especially the Theatre Club and the Astra cinema where, to keep myself out of the NAAFI bar every night, I became head projectionist. Also learned to drive and took my driving test in Mönchengladbach. Wildenrath looks totally different now, but then, so do I. Ah well, hair today, gone tomorrow.
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Glad you found ‘yourself’ Dick, Some of us are still looking hehe!!
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