An excellent thread - thank you Danny. Reading it took me back about ten years. I travelled from Warwickshire to Boston one Sunday to pick up a part for my Riley car. Arriving at a bungalow, the old boy invited me in for a cup of tea. We sat at the kitchen table and talked, no mention of the Riley part. Eventually he started talking of his time as a POW in Japan. Tears began to roll down his cheek. At the end he quietly said 'I have never spoken about that time before'. A friend of mine was the CO of the only unit of L5's that operated in Burma. He would talk about his time in Burma, often saying 'We lived like animals'. Luckily John wanted to talk and I have three hours of him on tape.