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     compass above my desk and could see that he was flying 
     
     two degrees further to the North than the course I had 
     
     given him, as the compass was on his right side. As a result 
     
     I got that dreadful feeling, with my lack of experience, that 
     
     I was going to miss England and land out in the Atlantic. 
     
    

    
     When over France I took the ”bull by the horns" 
     
     and altered 40 degrees to the South for ten minutes, 
     
     and for some unknown reason, I did not log this, as I 
     
     considered it a Pilot error, and I knew I could retrace my 
     
     position. After 10 minutes I altered back to the old course 
     
     and when I got close enough to England to get a ”G” fix, I 
     
     was straddling a track. When all the files were examined 
     
     the next day, I was the only one of the entire squadron that 
     
     was anywhere close to the track. 
     
    

    
     This fact soon got publicized, and I was regarded as 
     
     one of the best Navigators. I did not try to dissuade them, 
     
     and I did not explain my change of course merely on an 
     
     odd feeling, but I never again changed a course without a 
     
     good cause, as it was duly recorded. I never hear the word 
     
     Sweden or Stettin but my mind wanders back to those 
     
     early days. 
     
    

    
     You might wonder why I should think of this 
     
     on a peaceful night in Charlottetown, but I am reading 
     
     the life of Peter the Great of Russia and his founding St. 
     
     Petersburg which took such a pounding in World War II by 
     
     the Germans, but possibly changed the success of Hitler. In 
     
     examining the maps, I see Stettin and I recall 57 years ago. 
     
    
   
   
    
     BO URNEMO LITH 
     
    
   
   
    
     We certainly had a good time on the south coast. 
     
     I only had to act as an Orderly Officer once, and that was 
     
     with a Japanese officer - the only one I met during my time 
     
    
   
   
    
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