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1/4 Eric in Rome in 1945
2/4 A youthful Eric Atkinson
3/4 Eric rests on top of a Humber in the Western Desert
(C) The Sentinel
4/4 Eric Atkinson

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Eric was called up at the age of 21 in 1940 and was sent to the Isle of Aldenay to train as a machine gunner.Β  After a spell in France he came back to train at the Military College of Science as a radar mechanic for 8 months.Β  He was then posted to the desert before landing in Italy and it was here that he would carry out a very important job...



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