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Thread #5146   Message #1249972
Posted By: GUEST,Anne Croucher
17-Aug-04 - 11:16 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Coming In on a Wing and a Prayer
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coming In on a Wing and a Prayer
One of the few songs my dad used to sing.

He worked on the engines of Typhoons, Lancasters and other aircraft in WWII.

On airfields they shared with American squadrons the English ground crews often had a brew up and a sing song with the 'Darkies' in the US ground staff, particularly when the weather was bad as most of the huts on the American Dispersal were Whites Only.

Anne