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I don’t think Mark Kirby was in it?

However, here he is when he and I visited the memorial stone to Plt Off A W Clark on 11 September to clean it up on the 70th anniversary of his loss, exactly to the hour as it so happened.

Disreputable terrible types these “aviation archaeologists”.

Anyway, just the other side of the coin in terms of people like Mark who has had a bad press in the past and done little about it – and yet is a thoroughly decent family chap who cares deeply and passionately about “the Few” and quietly gets on with things like this. It is the other side of the coin that interested the makers of the programme ( mentioned by Mackerel) even less than they were interested in the facts!

Might I also mention that Steve Vizard, of Airframe Assemblies, had more than a little to do with the memorial to the Battle of Brtitain day casualty, Leslie Pidd, mentioned elsewhere on this forum – although he encouraged his daughter, Victoria, to take that project forward.