John had some fots sent to him on a disc and I'm going to have alook at them next week. He was also Sqn Adj on 20 Sqn when it had Hunters. I spoke to him earlier this morning and he is turning the house upside down looking for his albums.
I'm not sure about the sharing, but we had a good old chat about the outbreak of War. It was Sunday morning, he said.. very sunny and he was making a wooden Hampden model with his mate, Donald Geoffrey. They listened to the PM and shrugged their shoulders. 5 minutes later, the air raid sirens went off and Donald went home in case his dad got cross.
They both joined up in 1942, John as an AG and Donald as a Flight Engineer. Donald went missing over Hannover in 1943. John still buys a small poppy each year, especially for his schoolmate who never got the chance to do what he later went on to do.