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Re: P/O Roddan, navigator or pilot???
Hi Danny,
A quick google search led to Samuel John Roddan. With this full name I performed a search in The London Gazette and a Cpl Samuel John Roddan, service number 1126888 was promoted to P/O with service number 199464, effected on 9th August 1945.
Just to be sure if there weren't 2 persons with that name, I also checked the RAF card index of Airmen en Airwomen and it turns out that above mentioned name and servicenumber are unique.
So, as a Cpl he can't have been a wartime pilot/navigator. This is also a non-flying rank, at least in 1945. I suspect he perhaps belonged to ground personnel of a Mosquito unit...?
Regards,
Hans
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