After a couple of years I felt I could wheel this one out of the hangar again ...
By the way, if anyone wants a long Christmas read, drop me a PM with your email address and I shall send you the memoirs of Fairey Battle pilot Sqn Ldr Rupert Parkhouse, serialised in this thread early this year. The memoirs are transcribed from a three-hour tape he made for the IWM a decade ago and describe his training at Cranwell, his arrival to the decimated 12 Sqn in France, being shot down on his second sortie, his life as prisoner, and flying a Sunderland on the Berlin Airlift.