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Authors Flying Officer William Matthew Jamieson DFM,Matt to his family and friends and Jammy Jimmy to his Royal Air Force colleagues because he flew thirty missions in the Whitley and lived to tell the tale. He was awarded the DFM for bravery in the air and survived three crashes and numerous other harrowing experiences before earning a commission and moving to gunnery school as an instructor. After the war he became a teacher, writer and local historian. He also wrote Saints and Their Symbols and Murders Myths and Monuments of North Staffordshire. Born in Stockport, Cheshire, he was the fourth son of David and Annie Jamieson and passed away from cancer in nineteen ninety. Robert Jamieson the second son of Matt, promised to finish and publish the manuscript started by his father because he thought his dad's tale and that of the other brave young men of that campaign should be told. Robert was born in Stockport, Chesire, but currently lives in Toronto where he runs an engineering machinery business and writes mainly for business publications and pleasure. What was silent in the father speaks in the son Friedrich Nietzsche...