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Jack Sweet
Jack Sweet
Jack Sweet is a local historian in Yeovil and recalls that members of his family worked at Petters and Westland
https://www.westland100.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Jack-Sweet-family-westland-connection-clip.mp3
Jack Sweet is a local historian in Yeovil and remembers as a 5 yr old boy witnessing a raid by a single German bomber on the Westland factory in March 1941
https://www.westland100.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Jack-Sweet-German-bombing-Westland-March-41-clip.mp3
Jack Sweet is a local historian in Yeovil and remembers as a young boy climbing through the perimeter fence on the Westland airfield to play cricket
https://www.westland100.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Jack-Sweet-cricket-on-airfield-clip.mp3
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