Geriaviator,
Many thanks for including me in the tribute to our dear departed Danny.
In my short RAF career 65-73 I must have come into contact with or even flown with veterans of the war in the Far East - but if I did they never spoke about it! I only found out about the fact that 'Jolly' Jack Huntington ( who was on 30 at Fairford with Chugalug2 and me ) had flown Vengeances in the Far East from the book 'Flat Out', the history of 30 Squadron.
In those far-off days there was still loads of WW2 veterans at both Nav' Schools and on Hercs - in fact on 48 we had a former BofB Hurricane pilot - again very few of then ever spoke of their war service.