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ArtKramr wrote:
Subject: SHUT UP !!! YOU'LL JINX THE MISSION !!!!

Sorry about your dad. But he will be remembered by you and the band of brothers
he flew with. And it is important to remember, Pity those who have nothing to
remember..They are the saddest of all.

Sailed with, in his case. Many of his friends flew (most of those who
did died, though - they were flying in '40 through to '42 when the
RAF was flying daylight intruder sweeps into France in Blenheims),
but he was navy: Atlantic convoys, channel gunboats and ASR,
south Atlantic convoys. A different kind of war from yours, but
probably as dangerous and tough. Keeping safe the ships which brought
you, the fuel for the planes - and, in the channel, trying to save
those whose planes came down.

One of his friends who flew is still alive though - I'm trying to persuade
him to get his memories recorded somehow (he was a navigator, first
in Blenheims, then Beaus, then Mosquitos).

--
Andy Breen ~ Interplanetary Scintillation Research Group
http://users.aber.ac.uk/azb/
"Time has stopped, says the Black Lion clock
and eternity has begun" (Dylan Thomas)