Reg and Cliff
As ever, lost in admiration and appreciation of your achievements and clear recollections, undimmed by the passing of the years - this thread should be required reading for a very wide range of people, not least historians to politicians .....
Grateful thanks too for Rodger's contributions, which I feel add a very substantial additional perspective, and I clearly understand why he says the "RCAF Casualty Section Initial Action Sheet" may not perhaps seem "meaningful" in the direct context of clarifying the circumstances of Doug's last flight.
However, I am sure that I am not alone in feeling that such sheets, which presumably existed in similar form for the RAF and all Commonwealth Air Forces, are enormously meaningful when, almost literally, one "reads between the lines" of the individual entries on the sheet and considers what they mean, singly and collectively, and the an impact they must have had on the lives, and, deaths, of so many brave men and their families.
Jack