Geriaviator,
Thank you for the tantalising tasters from Flight Lieutenant John Stafford DFC. Lots about him on the web, but many may wish to let him tell his own story through you before looking elsewhere. So I'll resist jumping the gun and merely say that we are once again to be treated to the story of a remarkable man from a remarkable generation (and country, come to that!).
Walter603,
I join all those who have already enjoined you to do as Danny has suggested. Let us indeed start at the very beginning, for it is the mundane, the inconsequential, the "by the way...", that sets the scene and takes us all back to those bleak years when no-one could say for sure what was going to happen to the world, one's country, oneself. Hindsight is a wonderful thing, but what is more wonderful is when those that are not blessed with it make it happen for others. You, and the millions like you, did just that. Thank you, Sir!