Originally Posted by
Fareastdriver
langleybaston;
Not a Liberator, a 517 Sqn. Halifax.
Thank you.
Apologies if I have told this tale before. I repeat it as told, and would like to believe it. The tale was told by a serving Met Forecaster of the days when he had worn the M half wing badge of the Air Met Observer, I am guessing late 1950s.
He had occasion to be passing through an HQ and was accosted by an elderly Air Commodore.
"Sergeant, what is that badge?"
"Err, err [greatly daring] Midwife sir!"
"Didn't know we had flying midwives, let alone men midwives!"
"[In for a penny, in for a pound] It's for the trooping flights, what with all the families and pregnant wives sir!
"Oh! Carry on".
As I said, I would like to believe it.