Sergeant Norman Smith: To Burma and Back with the RAF
In the video below, Norman Smith discusses some of his experiences from his time in the RAF during, and in the aftermath, of World War Two
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Sergeant Norman Smith, service number 1590289, was born on the 17th of September 1924 and served with RAF between the 5th of April 1943 and the 15th of February 1947.
In the right image Sergeant Smith can be seen in uniform during his time in the RAF. The image below shows Norman along with fellow servicemen during the war, he is the man on the right hand-side of the image, with an Avro Lancaster in the rear ground. This is not one of the aircraft that the airman served with in theatre, over Burma.
The image on the right shows a C-47 "Skytrain" aircraft, known in RAF service as the C-47 "Dakota", this is the type of airframe that the Burma Communications Squadron (in which Norman served) would have been equipped with. Below and to the left are a number...