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Alfred Werner, Station Armoury - 1959.   Maurice tells us: "Alfred was our GSO fitter in the station armoury and a very skilled man.   After service in the German armed forces in WW2 and deportation from Poland, he finally settled with his family in Schortens just off the end of the runway.   I can still hear him now, muttering in his East German accent, "verfluchte Scheiße" when things did not work out as he had expected it to.   It was Alfred who taught us all the German swear-words and he would also explain the peculiarities (for us) of German life.   I remember that Alfred seemed to be always making BBQs for somebody on the station."   (Thanks to Maurice Parker)
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