31-08-2021, 08:12 AM
One for Tony.
My uncle, John Pope, (who loved his cars...) joined the RAF Volunteer Reserve at the start of WW2. Here he is in a Tiger Moth during initial training at Cambridge. He wrote to his sister (my mother):
"I think that the first time I drove a plane into the sky was the greatest moment I have ever experienced. I sang and shouted like a maniac, rocked the wings and swooped about in sheer ecstasy."
He joined a night-fighter squadron piloting Blenheims and then, with 29 Squadron, on 8th March 1942, was killed at RAF West Malling in a landing accident whilst converting onto Beaufighters. I wish I had known him.
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My uncle, John Pope, (who loved his cars...) joined the RAF Volunteer Reserve at the start of WW2. Here he is in a Tiger Moth during initial training at Cambridge. He wrote to his sister (my mother):
"I think that the first time I drove a plane into the sky was the greatest moment I have ever experienced. I sang and shouted like a maniac, rocked the wings and swooped about in sheer ecstasy."
He joined a night-fighter squadron piloting Blenheims and then, with 29 Squadron, on 8th March 1942, was killed at RAF West Malling in a landing accident whilst converting onto Beaufighters. I wish I had known him.
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