CADETS old and new gathered at the Lynn Cadet headquarters to honour the fallen as a memorial was unveiled on Monday.
The centrepiece of the 42F Squadron’s memorial is an aircraft propeller blade from a plane which crashed in the Wash in 1945 and was recovered in 2004.
Flight Lt Pauline Petch, of the Squadron, said: “We realised that many of the men who were killed in action from our Squadron during the Second World War were only a year or two older than our current cadets, so we wanted something to honour their memory.”
The Fenland Aviation Museum donated the propeller blade, which was originally from an RAF Mosquito.
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January 8, 2012 at 9:58 am