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Jimmy’s Service Record showing the various RAF training and operational units he
served with.
Jimmy was known affectionately by the crew as Paddy, he being born in the village
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of Killarney, County Kerry in the Republic of Ireland on 22 March 1923, one of 5
boys. The navigator, Sgt Stevenson was from Northern Ireland and both he and
Jimmy were the butt of each other’s jokes. Jimmy would sing Irish rebel songs in the
Ferryboat pub, the crew’s Local in Washingbourgh.
