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  • New Forest and Hampshire Wartime Association

    Brockenhurst Community Hub Highwood Road, Brockenhurst, Hampshire, United Kingdom

    On 14 August 1943, Adam Hart’s great-grandfather Frank Griffiths took off from RAF Tempsford, the SOE ‘Special Duties’ airbase in rural England. Frank and his crew were on a secret midnight mission codenamed Operation Pimento, but they were shot down near Annecy in southeast France. Only Frank survived. Though seriously injured, Frank felt it was…

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