Jaques David...
......'scuse a knackered old kipper fleet chap intruding. When did "radar observers" morph in to navigators? I flew with a nav who'd started his aviating career as an RO and was on Shacks as a nav when I met him - Del Littlefield??
My next ex Jav man was the headline chap above - born in France, family emigrated to Canada where he joined the RCAF when he grew up, flew the CF-100 for a while then transferred to the RAF where he flew the Javelin in Butterworth. He fell out with his flt cdr and asked to go "anywhere but where S/L XXX might be" and ended up on 120 Sqn on the Mk3 Shack. We detached to Sharjah where he discovered S/LXXX as S/L Ops!!! Big stramash in the bar the night our hero decided to try and kill S/L XXX. Remarkably little was said about it afterwards. But then that was Sharjah at that time.......
The Ancient Mariner