Hi all

Interesting thread on 33. I have just spoken to someone in the office who served on the SQD and can confirm the reason behind celebrating the Crete saga. The sad part of this is the instruction given by Hitler that all aircraft engineers must be shot. Reason being it only took 20-30 hours to train a pilot for combat but 100`s of hours to train an engineer. Remove the engineer and you remove the power to fly.

thanks

colin