A Huge Privilege
Best weekend of my RAF caree(s) was bein involved as OC Admin at Wyton in the organisation of the Pathfinder 50th Anniversary in 1992. It was huge priovilege to meet so many ordinary people who had done extraordinary things. Don Bennett's widow Ly was with us for that weekend and she was absolutely magic - one of my young squadron leaders was so captivated I thought he was going to ask her for a date! We were talking about what the pre war (by then the execs') MQ had been used for during the war, and then she asked if the tennis court was still there - "I played tennis on those courts with Anthony Eden", she reminisced.
Without exception all the Pathfinders were so modest about their courage and achievements - what a weekend, and so humbling.
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