Pete,
"Apples and Pears" - of course ! (What's the matter with my memory ? - as if I didn't know !)....D.
26er,
Mine was "NZVM/79/3". How come we can all remember these numbers so well ? In principle, I suppose there is no reason why we should not have had "ABCD/12/10-11-12 etc"...D.
Hummingfrog,
I
think ours were blue fuselsges, yellow wings and tails in the AAC (like this - courtesy of Wiki).. ...D.
Boeing Stearman E75 (PT-13D)
harrym,
In all fairness, I must admit that Sir Basil had common sense on his side in my case. A Flt.Lt. Pilot with so little seniority that he
might have got his scraper at 40, was not
really what he wanted in his Command.
On the recruitment question, I was thinking more of the
hoi polloi like myself, and what might have been my chances if I'd waited for call-up, been lucky to get the RAF, then volunteered (successfully) for aircrew (as I suspect had been the case for the two RAF Sgts in S/Ldr McKinnon's crew) [RIP all].....D.
Cheers, everone. Danny.