My father's friend at Binbrook in 1949/50, Bob Nash from Vancouver, survived two tours on Lancasters, concerning which the nine-yr-old Geri pestered the life out of him. Despite all he loved flying and would drill me on an old Lanc used for dinghy drills. On hearing that we had returned from India in 1947 he told us he had sought a posting to India to fly Dakotas with a view to a career in civil aviation after the war but there were too many pilots chasing the few jobs. Instead a grateful nation allowed him to stay flying on Lincolns, at price of demotion from Flt Lt to Flt Sgt with appropriate lowering of pay and pensions.