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Dave Yaxley reads the wartime diary of his great-uncle Jack ‘Johnny’ Crawford.
“Whether that’s still there – I don’t know. But I’m going to go and have a look some time,” Yaxley, from Beachlands, Auckland, says.
“It reads as if they are off on this exciting adventure, never expecting not to return. I think probably once they got there, reality struck.”
But it s Crawford’s final entry Yaxley decides to read: “It was bright moonlight with no clouds, and was a suicidal mission from the start.
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Dave Yaxley says even though World War II was a forbidden topic in the household, lost son Jack Crawford was talked about often. ....

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