If you find this of interest I'm sure I could persuade her to find out more about her father's life
Yes please, and VMT "Miss Ransley"!
What a marvellous input from a completely different perspective, touching as it does on several very contentious aspects of WWII. The Leslie Howard "mystery" and the amazing fightback by the RAAF Sunderland of 461 Squadron attacked by eight JU88s when sent to look for survivors have already been covered in some detail in this very thread.
Jack