Word: huskinson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Minister for Aircraf Production Lord Beaverbrook praised two boys "from the back room" who had helped design "the big beautiful bombs" which were Britain's new present to Germany: Squadron Leader Robert Henry Garner and Air Commodore Patrick Huskinson...
...Leader Garner got permission to take a machine-gun post and fly all the way to Emden to see one drop. "After all," he said, "if you've got up some new idea it's only fair to go along and see how it works." Air Commodore Huskinson could not go to see. In a German raid on London fortnight ago, he went to his window to see what Nazi bombs looked like as they fell. One fell close by, its blast flooded his eyes with blood, and he was blinded...
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