I can jump back in here following on from post # 7 above as my father also spoke about meeting Jimmy Edwards when both were flying in the UK, not certain who was visiting whose base. Apparently the two of them somehow got into some substantial disagreement which my father always recollected whenever J E turned up on the television right into the 1960s. Edwards was not yet known in the entertainment business until after WW2, and I believe didn't fly after his accident at the Arnhem landings (he crash-landed in Dakota KG444), which left him with substantial facial scars which he concealed with his oversized handlebar moustache.