What happened to 'Uncle' & 'Skull'?

Idle thoughts…

Just thinking about ‘Uncle’ Kellaway and ‘Skull’ Skelton in ‘Piece of Cake’.

They were acting what were real jobs in RAF Squadrons – the Adjutant and Inteligence officer. In the TV series they provided a more mature, thoughful and analytic contrast to the instinctive young fighter pilots.

So, in real life, these types of chaps must have seen it all at debriefing, and heard much of it from the pilots. Unlike the pilots, they’ll have been more likely to be broadly academically literate and also to some degree, to think about what was going on.

But, y’know, I can’t think of one book – or account by an inteligence officer or adj from an RAF Squadron! Odd.

Many would have been older than the pilots, and thus for the W.W.II era, long gone now, but I can’t believe the Official Secrets Act 1911 gagged the lot between ’45 and today.

OK, a book by (say) Douglas Bader is going to be a hellava lot more publishable than, say, 92 Squadron’s Intelligence Officer, but I know whose account would have more depth, and in many ways it seems we’ve missed a historical record of some note.

Hmmm.