Angels I have been in contact with
Regle, as my Uncle Fred was a Blackpool lad and I thought he might have remembered him from 177 ATC sqn at Squires gate.
He did join up as a pilot and did his initial training in Canada on Havards, then on to South Africa for Hurricane conversion. Obviously later than some of the other contributors to this thread.
As your Fathers story is now approaching Burma that is where he met his untimely end to a short life as most brave young servicemen did at 21yrs old.
He was with 42 Sqn based at Tuliha, the Sqn was there from July to November 1944. He was shot down on a mission to bomb a bridge on the 21st Oct 1944.
His parents were told the usual, missing, missing presumed dead and finally after the war presumed dead.
His remains were not found until 1956 by the War Graves commission searching in the jungles of Burma.
His is buried in Taukkyan war cemetery. RIP
Everyone keep up the stories it makes better reading than most books on the subject.
