- Contributed byÌý
- CSV Action Desk Leicester
- People in story:Ìý
- William Hutt Henson
- Location of story:Ìý
- Bigginhill, Kent
- Background to story:Ìý
- Civilian
- Article ID:Ìý
- A5259611
- Contributed on:Ìý
- 22 August 2005
My Father couldn't join the Army because he had perforated eardrum, so he was assigned by the MOD (Ministry of Defence) to a team of workers to work at airfields.
Their job was to run out to repair the damaged runway after it had been bombed, so the planes could land safely.
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