A most remarkable sequence of photos. Enough to give everyone involved brown trousers :D:D

Nice photos Laurence. I really loved flying in the Valetta but found it very cold at altitude. Very exhilirating in the T4 though, pretending to be a night fighter when chasing the target C1!
Jim

You should have tried it in the Wellington T18. Come to think of it, at least they had the same wings.:rolleyes:

Can we send him out to India :rolleyes::D

Charlie, as I know from long ago, the MOD work by the age old public service motto. “Do not make waves.”
As for any response to the public. “Treat them like mushrooms”.
And the method is “Keep them in the dark, and feed them on bullsh1t”

It works most of the time.

Another REAL hero.

Ah – good memories, by the sound of it. No pictures, I suppose….?

Charlie I was 11 or 12 at the time, the family did not own a camera. In addition we lived in a controlled area where I think private cameras were verboten. Every day on the bus ride to school the bus was stopped at a check point so that a soldier could come through and check identity cards. Oh for such luxuries nowadays, the moaning would never stop.
Mind you, we boys used to steal ammunition from the army. I found a rifle, hidden in the loft, when we moved house in 1944 and had it out in the garden and loaded.:eek::eek: I had been taught how to strip, clean, and fire a rifle some time before. Luckily I had the sense to unload it, as I had considered firing it in the air:diablo:. We then presented it to the village policeman as we had been taught. Boys don’t know they’ve been born nowadays :D:D

A Shagbat would be superb. I still remember seeing them wallowing across the grass at Hawkinge.
Wishful thinking I suppose, but I do really hope the NF36 Mossie comes to life.

nothing heard from my MP or the PM

Ditto