Category: 1941/02
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February 22nd 1941
Went to hospital last weekend with the crabs. Shave and put on some strong blue ointment. Now suffering from stubble trouble. Went out sailing in Braybooks’s Moth the other day. My first three attempts to ‘go about’ failed through not letting go the rudder, but soon mastered that and had a damed good day. Flying […]
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February 12th 1941
The other day I went up in the clouds and was shown climbing and steep turns. Then up for 1.10 in an Audax to practice. Rain wet the aerodrome, and Harts can’t even use the runaways (JDW: curious that these were referred to as runaways not runways in 1941 – not a spelling error, as […]
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February 5th 1941
My instructor is Cremin. (JDW: Dan Cremin was killed in an air accident in March 1942 a few weeks after taking command of his first squadron, 66 squadron in the UK). First hour or so is spent in my U/S (unserviceable) telephones, with “Br….umph!” coming through them and me feverishly looking at all the bloody […]
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February 2nd 1941 – Habbaniya
Habbaniya is a camp well laid out, rather similar to Wana or Razmak, but more vast and better organised. Training here are a lot of Greeks and South Africans, and they had Norwegians and French before we arrived. We are the only four officers on this course, the rest being other ranks from Kenya and […]
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