"We Were Able 2"

Price: £5.00

This is a true account of life on a Post (Blunsdon, nr Swindon) in World War II and is a 36 page FIRST EDITION booklet published in May 1968. As well as a photograph of Able Cluster there are one or two other black & white illustrations. However the majority is text where the author recalls the trials and tribulations of a small group of typical English country people in the early days of the war, whose task it was to create from a single wooden peg on a Wiltshire hillside, an efficient Royal Observer Corps Post.

"For those who go without their sleep
For those who play a humble part
For those who lonely vigil keep
And do it with a cheerful heart.

On guard they wait the morning glow
They search the Eastern sky for light
So drink a toast before you go
To those on guard tonight."

Other extracts from the booklet include:

"Our first item of uniform (if it could be called that) was an issue of what were called "Zee Kee" coats in R.A.F. blue with shiny black cuffs and an interlining of yellow oil skin which became extremely stiff in cold weather!"

"Swindon was bombed or machine gunned on many other occasions, mostly at night and about 50 houses were destroyed and some 2,000 damaged. Fifty people were killed. ............. A cannon shell fired by a Ju 88 hit the G.W.R. gasometer and flames belched out like a giant blow lamp."

POSTAGE: U.K £1.00p; Europe £1.50p; Rest of World £1.75p. This includes postage & packaging with board backed envelopes.

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