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Originally Posted by tonyt
My maternal grandad Herbert, Williams brother, was on the barrage balloons in london during WW2 (having been recalled from the front in WW1 as he was under age) so will have to add a page on this too.
Tony
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I didn't realize that the barrage balloons had people on them -- I thought that they were just tethered up there, empty, cuz the tethers created barriers for the attacking planes. I guess that I just learned something new, here
Never too old
