Wee Ronny,
First, Congratulations on your "First Solo", and a hearty "welcome aboard" from this our noble crowd who gather in this "Crewroom in Cyberspace" (and natter therein to their heart's content).
If your Dad had joined 84 Sqdn. in June '44, it would be at a time that they'd just taken delivery of their Mossies (which had only just replaced the Vultee Vengeances they got in late '42), and before that had been on Blenheims in UK, doing shipping strikes in the Channel (and taking a fair hammering) before coming out to India in early '42).
He would have arrived just when the Mosquitoes started falling apart (the heat, humidity and monsoon rain having dissolved the glue which held them together), to the consternation of the bystanders and the dismay of the aircrew when this happened in the air. Did your Dad ever mention this ?....D.
Icare9,
Our Wing Commander Mike Warren seems a bit of a mystery man, the BBC Tees reporter gives his age as 88, which would make his age 19 when stumps were drawn on VE day. I know we had a lot of young promotions during the war, but even Guy Gibson had to wait till 23 to make Wing Commander....D.
Cheers to you both, Danny.