Auster Flying in WW2.
To Kookabat.
Adam,
If your chap was flying about over France and the Netherlands in 1943 and "early" 1944, then he sure wasn't just "doing odd jobs"! (We didn't get ashore on the continent until June '44 - "D" Day).
More likely he was was ferrying agents and dropping off stuff for the Resistance. Usually they had Lysanders, which could land on nothing and take off on next to nothing, but I suppose an Auster would do.
Anyway, thanks for the information,
Danny.