While flying out of Broadford, Isle of Skye, on a MoD Contract providing support for the Test Range in Rassay Sound....we had an occasion to fly up and around to Loch Ewe....from where many Russian Convoys set forth from.
Having read quite a bit about the Russian Convoys it was a very interesting visit....done by helicopter.
It provided a real context to what those days must have been like for the Crews of the ships making their way to Russia under such perilous conditions.
Later on I made my way to Bataan, Corregidor, Wake Island, and many other WWII battlefields including one Christmas spent at Bastogne.
When you walk the ground and consider what took place there.....it is a very moving experience.
One Uncle was MIA for thirteen days during the Bulge, one had a 6x6 Truck bounced on top of him by an 88mm Artillery Round and had to dig himself out using his helmet, and the third island hopped in the Pacific with the Marines.
Those were some amazing people of that generation.