By Land and By Air

fly with a Pilot who panics.

Another time I got into a plane and found all the crew were Polish. None spoke English, but I kept sending up notes to the Pilot and all seemed OK, until the plane seemed to be losing height and the next thing I knew we were on the Isle of Man. There were no restrictions on food and we could get all the eggs and bacon we wanted. Then, in two days, we returned to our base.

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I said, ”course,” he said, ”no, beam.” It was the only time I flew the beam and if you went to the right you heard, dit daw (H) and to the left dit dat (N) you were flying into a core. This was dangerous over Europe, as the Germans could get you on the beam. I was rather lucky, as they had recently found GEE lines and one could tell where they were in England, Ireland or Scotland. They also discovered SPI which gave you Latitudes and Longitudes where you were, if there was no wind, which was a help we did not have in Canada.

When I was crossing a small bridge in Dumfries, who should I meet but the Sergeant Major from Maldon airport. This man was different from any Sergeant Major I ever met. He could stand up before hundreds of men in parade and give jokes but when, with his loud, thunderous voice, he called for attention, everyone jumped to attention. He was a big man, over six feet. He had re-mustered to a Sergeant Rear Gunner. I was sorry when I heard that he had been killed, and I always thought that someone who knew him better than I, should have mentioned him in the annals of history.

I had flown over a lot of Scotland, even over the

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