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John 鈥淧addy 鈥淏rennan was a Flight Lieutenant with the Royal Air Force. He signed up in 1940 after reading a newspaper report about Air Gunners. At 19, he was accepted for training as a wireless operator /air gunner.

In his first tour in the Middle East, he was in the front turret of a Wellington aircraft and compares the close confines to wearing a straightjacket.

His second tour, in Scotland, was as a wireless operator.

John didn鈥檛 celebrate VE Day. To him, it meant nothing. He was to be posted to the island of Okinawa to construct airfields for the final assault on Japan and felt it was no time for celebration.

He was on his way to Southampton to leave for Okinawa when the atom bomb was dropped and Japan surrendered.

In November 1945, Flt Lt John Brennan was awarded a Distinguished Flying Cross for courage and dedication to duty.

Many of his colleagues were lost during the war. John credits his own survival to the Rosary Beads he found when he was ten in a street in Ireland.

To this day he is never without them.

Image: John Brennan pictured during the war, and now.

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