ancientaviator62 (#11150),
Thanks for the steer ! - very interesting ! But some of the text is strange: what are we to make of ..."Corporal Peter Westlake Walker was stationed in India and Burma, but was soon deprived of his pilot's license due to being colour blind"...? for example, and there are other items difficult to understand.
The shots of chaps in their 'blues' (and that amazing two-man rickshaw with the puller in a sort of mad Red-Indian head dress must have been at a hill station (Poona? or somewhere up north in the winter. In Bengal and all points east we wore KD all year round.
..."At the book's semi-official launch, I was really taken back by how many people spoke to me of their fathers, brothers and other relatives who had fought out in the Far East and everyone without exception said 'they never spoke about it"...
cf my Thread: "Dad never said much about the war when he came back". (Multi-page thread 1 2 3 4 5) on Military Aviation.
Danny.