David,
Talk with your Dad every day if possible, my father was 82 when he took his last flight, Dad flew with 272 Sqdn, my brother and I both miss the slow and painfull recollections he used to tell us about, and of what for those young men during that time of the 20th Century was a period that non of us since have gone through, they were normal men thrown into six years of the place beyond hell, all of them in my opinion deserve the title of... Hero
Thank you for the small sample of the history of your Fathers service, I wish him well for the rest of his life,
Peter R-B
Vfr
Lancashire