It's 48 years ago today, IIRC.
Sam Smith and Jack Canham were at the end of their tours and Jack had won his DFC as a W/O navigator in Bomber Command. After the war he went to the search teams trying to find all those killed in Europe. A very strange situation is that the officer appointed to look after Jack's affairs had lost his own father over Germany. There is a chance that Jack helped with locating this man's father's remains and in turn, the young officer was able to help sort out Jack's affairs, although at the time neither would have realised this.
Old Duffer