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"Bill" Boyd Berry (no hyphen), an excellent Flight leader and well liked.
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The British "B" Flight Commander was Flt.Lt. A mustachioed, cheerful extrovert, he was the life and soul of the party and very popular with everyone.
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"Pop" Chopra, was the exact opposite of S/Ldr Prasad. Sutherland, a tough New Zealander with a hard reputation as a martinet.
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He was replaced some time in February '44 by Sqn.Ldr. He struck me as a very reserved, scholarly, intellectual type, far better suited as a Staff officer than in the rough-and-tumble of Squadron life (he did, IIRC, reach air rank in the postwar IAF). There had been a Royal Indian Navy for years, and an Indian Army from the days of the Mutiny. Independence was in the air, and we wanted to hand over a "going concern", with all three Services up and running after the war. 8 Squadron of the Indian (for a brief period the Royal Indian) Air Force. On a standard strip-cum-basha camp (indistinguishable from fifty others in the district) was the brand new No. This time we did not bed down there for the night! A good dinner, bed and breakfast in the "Grand", and back on the train for Chaara (I have absolutely no idea where that was), except that it was somewhere in Orissa. Disembarked somewhere in the morning, back on a train to Calcutta - Howrah station again! This threaded its way through innumerable islands and waterways (I could see where the "dug-out canoe" yarn, told us at Worli, might have come from). There we embarked in a stern-wheel paddle steamer (quite a comfortable cabin for the night). Then it was a train to some God-forsaken hole in the middle of the Sunderbans (the name "Narayanganj" seems familiar). All our previous trips to and fro the "sharp end" had been self-flown, so this one was a bit of an eye-opener.Ī bumpy truck ride took us to the railhead at Silchar (the end of the line into our corner of Assam). I had to abandon my DIY bed, but of course stripped off the webbing and put it in my bedroll, so that I could easily rebuild it at the other end. (it's up to me, now),ĭanny is on his way from 110 Sqn. Seriously, Taphappy, keep up the good work. Two storey bunks - how did they manage Kit Inspections ? - on stilts?ħ/6 a day, and you're not even an LAC yet? And you go on leave till the next posting ? Were there no Transit Camps ?. (How do you con a PFI that you can swim 100yd when you can't? - Chugalug's question - Waterwings?) Perhaps that's why "Tee Emm" placed such emphasis on dinghy drill - half the crews couldn't swim!
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Trial by Water was never inflicted on us, although we had the whole Bristol Channel on the doorstep you would have been better off in the sea: you float better in salt water. Humour? "it's bein' so cheerful 'as keeps us goin'" - I suspect it was the same with you. We did a three-year tour, but it could vary a bit. News of Glorious Victories and (rather a lot of) Masterly Strategic Withdrawals filtered out to us, of course, and they were received with a certain amount of cynicism, but mostly we crossed off the days till the "troopship just leaving Bombay" of the song would have us on board. Don't mention it ! We were every bit as absorbed as you were in our own affairs out there the European theatre was a distant rumble of something that was going on half a world away.