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Old 19th Aug 2015, 15:09
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Centaurus, even in the 60s it was changing. The biggest change was perhaps wives . . .

Then the age gap with old men, 26 or so, not wishing to shoot lines with sprogs, and your really old bemedalled 40-45 year olds particularly reticent. Very occasionally a gem was dropped:

"My only mission was the day after the dams raid. The IntO said there would be no flak." His name was in the Bomber Command diaries.

"The FOB said whenever nothing else was planned we should fly strikes down the Loire Valley. I was asked after the French complained if I had check the Master FOB." He was a Spitfire sqn cdr post war and remained a sqn ldr for next 20 years.
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