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Bill sits at the dinner table. He takes a hard look around at everyone sitting there with him. Emily, his wife is on his immediate left. His son Matthew is sitting to his right chatting relaxed with his two sisters and his high school sweetheart who are sitting further down on both sides of the table. Bill glances down at his own half finished plate. He has lost his appetite. Half of his meal still untouched.  Emily went all out with fried chicken and all of the fixings.  Bill wonders on how big a hit this is on the ration book. The good china is out with the family silverware accompanying the set.  A white cloth covers the table and a half

The thermometer hanging near the door on a bomb shelter at Chattis Hill Airfield read a pleasant 23 deg Celsius. The warm April day provided Flying Officer Patricia “Pepper” Healy with some relaxation while a ground crew worked across the road on the nearby compass platform.  The aircraft is pointed north and the compass set correctly to match.  First they had trouble aligning the compass, the process normally takes just a few minutes.  Today the equipment has been temperamental and the ground crew had to replace the entire assembly to get it to align properly.  Then for some reason the Rolls Royce Griffin engine decided that it w