The other day, I was talking to my dad, who'll be 83 next month, about this Bomber Command special issue. "I remember the bombers when I was a boy," he said and went on to reveal the most vivid memories of a little lad in Yorkshire aged about six years old. My dad grew up in a village called Crayke in North Yorkshire. While rather lovely, Crayke is most notable for the fact that it sits on a 368ft-hill that sticks out of the otherwise flat-as-a-pancake Vale of York like a particularly prominent thumb. This must have been the reason that bombers from the numerous airfields in the region - Linton, Tholthorpe, Dishforth, Dalton and Topcliffe - used it as a place to swarm.
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