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Flight Lieutenant John J Blair DFC was born in 1919 in Jamaica. In 1941, at the age of 22 he volunteered for service in the RAF and was enlisted into Bomber Command. Following training in Canada, he joined 102 Squadron as a Navigator at RAF Pocklington.
After completing a full tour of Operations he was selected for service with the Pathfinder Force and was then transferred to Transport Command at the end of WWII. After the war, he remained with Transport Command and was involved with flying British casualties from Malaya (where he met his wife Margaret), and providing logistical support for the British Nuclear Tests in the Pacific. Flight Lieutenant Blair DFC served in the RAF until 1963 and then returned to Jamaica. He died at the age of 85 in 2004.
This is a video made by Mark Johnson the great-nephew of John Jellicoe Blair, one of almost 500 Black Caribbean air crew in the RAF during the Second World War. |
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