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Flight Sergeant Clifford “Cliff” Oddy was born on the 2nd of August 1922 in Leeds, West Yorkshire, the son of Clifford and Catherine Oddy of Armley. He grew up during the hard years between the wars — a time when Britain was still recovering from the Great War, and aviation captured the imagination of a new generation. As a boy, Cliff would have looked up at the skies above Leeds and dreamed of flight — dreams that, just a few years later, would carry him into the Royal Air Force. When the Secon