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    LETTERS

    Dec 29, 2020 2 minutes

    SCANNING THE SKIES

    I enjoyed reading the essential guide to the World War II British home front (Christmas 2020). When I reached the section on the Blitz and saw the photograph of the ‘spotter’ my thoughts immediately went to the Royal Observer Corps (ROC) – my father-in-law was Leading Observer at a post in Staffordshire.

    The ROC operated between

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