From experience of communicating with these unsung heroes over the past twenty years I have never had a more fitting reply to the question than that given to me by Fred Beacon who flew Spitfires as a sergeant pilot in Burma.
His reply was as follows:-
“If I had not gone and done what I did then there would have been others to do it, we were nothing special but just happened to be there at the time”
Fred was twenty at the time of going into combat against the Japanese and to this day still stays in touch with two of his old pilot comrades. They have what I believe is an unbreakable bond of brotherhood forged from a sense that there was a job to be done.
Greatest respect to all who served and wish to remain the modest unsung heroes
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