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Katie Carmichael
@kcarmichael2011
Sometime architectural historian at Historic England. Now looking at the role of forestry in reaching net zero. Views are my own.
Sep 22, 2019 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
My husband has been reading the war diaries of his great-uncle’s regiment and has finally found out the details of how the man our eldest is named after died, aged just 28. #thread #ww2 #familyhistory #militaryhistory 1/11 He was a pilot in the Air Observation Post, based on Italy during 1944 and flying a tiny Auster aircraft - lightweight and highly manoeuvrable but with little to no protection. 2/11