A great story indeed, Danny and Chug, but Rupert's flying career did not end with his narrow escape in France. He will tell how he felt he should have done more to escape from POW camp, and post-war he was to be bitten by the Mosquito and have his moments with the Sunderland, as he will recall with ruthless honesty.
He and his comrades could have had no doubt about the dangers they faced. His adjutant did not want him to go because he was so young, and his own navigator had this to say:
Later Sgt Morris my navigator on 12 Sqn told me what a shaker it was when on May 14 he had entered the crew room and of the 22 navigators and gunners who had come out to France, only he and another man remained.
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