I have a copy of a chap's logbook when he was OC10 Sqn at VE day. His last bombing sortie was on 25 April 1945 to 'Wangerooge'. This was the Halifax . His next entry is July 12 with the Dakota Mk IV. Four Group was being turned into a transport group and sent to India and Burma with the 'Dak'. His log book contains several entries of flights in India and just stops on November 28 when I assume he was repatriated home and being HO, demob. It must have been a very bitter pill to those who survived their bomber days to be then sent away to India as the for all they knew the war against Japan could have dragged on for years.
I did once meet an ex POW of the Japanese who was adamant that the A bomb saved many a POW life. He said he was told by his captors that they had orders to kill all prisoners, civilian as well as military when the first allied soldier set foot upon the main Japanese homeland.
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