TommyOv. Make the most of your life...
Tommy, I will be 87 years of age on May 8th, in a few days, in fact. I volunteered for the RAF, when I was just 18 , in June of 1940 and got my wings ,RAF and US, on the 3rd. Jan. 1942. I flew my first "Op" in October 1942 and my last one on Jan.28th.1944. I flew from 1941 until 1981 and finished with 25,100 hours which, my calculator tells me means that I spent, as near as dammit, three of those years in the air. Work it out, Tommy. I was probably one of the youngest, as you had to be eighteen and not over twenty, to volunteer, otherwise you would be conscripted to go wherever the powers that be decided, even down the mines ! There can't be many of us left and that is why we are, indeed ,fortunate to have these invaluable "threads". Thread is a very good term because that is what life is... a precious, fragile thread. Carpe Diem. Regle.
Last edited by regle; 5th May 2009 at 00:04.