Hi Fellers,
Been thinking of you guys....(is there anybody even here..
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I told some of you ( My Squaddies in 71RAF) about my brother in laws father, he wants to fly spittys because his dad was a pilot in WW2, and we got a rig etc and hes been having fun, just about to set up the VR for him and have been popping round for a smoke and a chill and fly/..hes a cool dude for 73!
any way he busts out some old letters..
well knock me down with a feather.. they are from his dad in 1940 142 sqdrn writing to his mother, a young man of 20, getting his head around the war.. they are ferking amazing to read, I really want to share them with you all.. its quite a story to be honest..
Here is an interview he did.. <<S>>Flt Lt. Lyness thank you Sir
https://youtu.be/VAD_CNKoVmo https://youtu.be/1o8waX9atFY part2
I just can not remember how to post photos etc, if any one is keen to see em, yell out and any info on how to post em up..yell louder..
I really want to post the letters too..
they are amazing,He came from New Zealand to Great Britain to fly and fight at the age of 18,he grapples with his friends dying,his desires to kill the enemy,his frustration at being put in bombers after training in fighters,he falls in love with a Grimsby girl who he marries,against his parents wishes (who live on the other side of the world NZ) and lots more, you see in some of the letters his handwriting is very sketchy.. nerves etc..he moves theaters of war from Europe to far east and he gets shot down and taken prisoner by the japs and is in Changi POW jail and wrestles with his friends dying there and the brutality of the Japs..Side note.. prisoners where basically conscripted into the Jap army and where the lowliest of the low..ending up being the senior officer of the camp aged 22 as Ft Lft.. something like that.. truly remarkable. Its straight from the source, its like a connection mainline through History.
Miss flying with you my brothers
I hope you are all well and happy..
<<S>> Jimmy
