Me thinks it's a shame if this forum subject falters when, inevitably, the very old initiators pass on, because I believe there's stuff out there that their children, grandchildren or other relations have knowledge about which they could write.
It would be a tribute - if ephemeral - to all those grand fellows,
This 'thread' now needs your contributions.
For my part all I can offer is that last week at 82 and thanks to them all clearing the way 1939/45, I flew solo unmolested by enemy fighters or flack from a grass strip in UK Sussex to mid Chauvigny France and a few days later back at a sedate 78 1/2 mph.
mike.