Gaining an RAF pilots brevet in WW2
Danny I wonder if this Burma story "rings any bells" with you.
In the US we have three non commercial TV channels for public interest programs.They are financed by the cable companies.
To day I happened to tune in during an hour program about Air Commandos.. It was a recording of a historian relating the story during a meeting in Kansas City last month
Apparently during -March 44?--a US operation using C47, s flew gliders ---containing British troops? --to a landing behind the Jap lines in Burma.The landings and susequent snatches were done at night.A mini bull dozer had been taken in and was used to clear teak trees felled by the locals .Eventually this allowed C47, s to land but earlier L5, s were used to evacuate casualties one at a time.
At the end of the program three participants were interviewed. One had earlier been with Dolittle on the Tokyo raid----There are only 4 survivors left. I think this man had been Dolittles co- pilot.
D