Ummm….. becoming a little emotional aren’t we.

yes, 22 years in the RAF and attending a few funerals of close friends tends to make you like that. I don’t care who picks over the remains of downed aircraft as long if human remains are recovered they are treated with the respect they deserve. Frequently the MOD has left our people in unmarked holes in the ground because they don’t want to go to the expense of a recovery. Subsequently the amateurs you seem to despise have come along and the decent thing has been done.

If you are an example of the great ‘professional detachment’ perhaps you should stay away from the scene

As an ex-serviceman my views are this:
If a site is known to have human remains then it should be the duty of the state to ensure the aircrew are recovered and given full military burials regardless of expense. And let’s face it the only reason so many are still ‘missing’ is because it’s more convenient for governments of all political persuasions to save money by pretending they a somehow honouring them by letting them rot unmarked and alone.

If it had all gone for hell in a handcart for me I would rather have been recovered and buried with my mates than left forgotten. Check out the Commonwealth War Graves site in Berlin where the crews are buried in sevens.

Not for me thanks……………..

I’ll get me coat

That and lots of French people were happy to collaborate with the Germans under Vichy, the Resistance was never as strong as de Gaulle made out post-war

Isn’t there a photo of a FW-190D in red stars captured in East Prussa doing the rounds? It usually is captioned something allong the lines that so many were captured they were turned against their origional users and issued to a Red Airforce unit – mind you memory is starting to go…..

We wern’t drawn down mate, we were murdered!

But ‘Sharkey’ Ward CO 801 NAS dismissed the results saying he was ‘not surprised’ on finding out which pilots flew the Sea Harriers in DACT on this occasion!

Good old Sharkey, as modest and self-effacing a bloke as you’re likley to meet

French did DACT with Harriers