Originally Posted by
rolling20
When the shooting started, many who had volunteered for air gunner duty, quietly went back to their ground trades.
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However - as I alluded to in an earlier post - there was much pressure to retain experienced ground crew in their trade role,the fast expanding RAF badly needed skilled tradesmen.
As I also mentioned earlier - the route to aircrew from being an experienced tradesman could be fairly long and tortuous.
(As with Dennis Conroy in my post #23 )