Faraway Places with Queer Sounding Names
ancient aviator,
Your chap seems to have had a short "tour" in India - from September '45 to January '46 ! (Was his journey really necessary ? - as we used to say). I quote from your last Post, adding a word or two in comment (abbreviated as follows):
"*" - landed there sometime;......"?"- don't know it, would have to look it up;........."#" - know it but never landed there.
" I will merely list the different airfields visited in India from the log book and no doubt many of them will be familiar to Danny.
Palam________ * Delhi
Bamrauli______ ?
Akyab________ # Bombed it once
Barrackpore___ # Calcutta
Poona________ # (Spiritual home of "Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells")
Agra_________ # Taj Mahal a must-see.
Then a 'Squadron Move' to Poona.____aka "Pune"
Baroda_______ ? (somewhere up NW)
Mauripur______ # nr Karachi (far NW, where they assembled the VVs)
Santa Cruz____ * Bombay
Arkonam______ ?
Bhopal_______ ? (somewhere up NW)
The entries stop on Jan 8 with a final trip from Palam to Poona".
It's a pity he didn't add a few details of what they actually did in all these places. What a fund of memories must now have gone beyond recall !
But thanks all the same,
Danny.
EDIT: Surfing the net, recently found "BBC - WW2 People's War - "Army Days" by Percy Bowhill. Good about India.......D.
EDIT II: Can't find it again now. Must be doing something wrong. You may have better luck !.........D.
Last edited by Danny42C; 2nd Nov 2012 at 19:09.
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