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Radio 4 Home Truths Listen Again About John Peel Help Feedback Like this page? Mail it to a friend		1/4 Eric in Rome in 1945 2/4 A youthful Eric Atkinson 3/4 Eric rests on top of a Humber in the Western Desert 4/4 Eric Atkinson Eric Atkinson Listen to the item Eric was called up at the age of 21 in 1940 and was sent to the Isle of Aldenay to train as a machine gunner. After a spell in France he came back to train at the Military College of Science as a radar mechanic for 8 months. He was then posted to the desert before landing in Italy and it was here that he would carry out a very important job... Tell us your views Useful Links BBC Stoke: Inside Lives - Eric Atkinson The BBC is not responsible for the content of external websites.

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