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Old 19th Apr 2018, 09:39
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Originally Posted by ExAscoteer
My late Father was a Glider Pilot. They were certainly issued berets. The photo below was taken at Brize in late 1944:

http://village.photos/images/user/dd...adbc0730c2.jpg
I used to know a chap (John Parker) who was at Brize about that time as a tug pilot. He was badly injured one day towing a Horsa off with a Whitley when he lost an engine shortly after takeoff.
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