Originally posted by GRUNHERZ
...What bastards that Churchill and Roosevelt were sending all those young poor British and American men to die all over the world...
i dont know about the rest of the british forces, but the RAF pilots in 1939 seem to have been mostly children of the aristocracy.
they all learned to fly in the cambridge flying club...
thats maybe the one thing the miniseries 'piece of cake' got right.
british officers got paid practically zilch (about ¼ of what US officers of the same grade got) & were expected to have some outside source of £££. of all the books i've read by british combat pilots who were in the 1st battle of france & the battle of britain, they were all well off
