Thanks, RV7 – for that link to Phil – looking happy as ever!
The DVD?? Oh, DO buy it – done on a shoe-string – mostly theirs – by Atoll Productions.
And, for good value, you can hear him, & me, doing our bit.
PS – that’s me on the cover!!
= Tim
All brave or reckless, adventurous, dutiful, but unassuming to a man!
With a 1 in 6 chance of surviving a tour of ops, the only one that applies is Dutiful? Brave would have been to opt out – LMF. I truly don’t believe that I could have coped. They must have realised when they sent me to Fighters.
Back to thread –
1. Running/Station Keeping Lights – wouldn’t those-over-there have just loved that? Like we did when harrassing their airfields at night.
2. Remember, for what it’s worth, that night was not always pitch dark?
3. The nearest we got to these luxuries was on Turbinlite ops.
The A20 Havoc, with the searchlight, had a white strip along the s/bd wing edge. You can just make it out in the photo? We, in Hurricanes, had to formate on take-off & thereafter on this strip – illuminated by a small narrow angled light.
That was bad enough but, when a Havoc’s tyre burst on take-off, we lost one great chap.
= Tim
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