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This Weeks Guest, Friday 5th
February, Squadron Leader Tony Iveson
  7pm
to 8pm, Newstalk ZB
RAF Bomber Pilot Tony
Iveson
Squadron Leader Tony Iveson joined 616 Squadron at Keley
on 2 September 1940 flying Spitfires. In May 1942 and his second
operational tour was with Bomber Command. He joined 617 Squadron
(the Dam Busters) in 1944. Tony is Chairman of the Bomber Command
Association. Brian Milton worked with Tony to write the compelling
book 'Lancaster'. A journalist and broadcaster, Brian is also an
aero enthusiast and flyer, having flown a microlight aircraft around
the world in 1998, recording his adventures in the book Global
Flyer.
For more on Tony Iveson and in particular the
mission to sink the Tirpitz,
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