Billie Raine – Billie had no right ear and the right side of his face and head had been burned. These were repaired as best as possible. This disfigurement affected him psychologically as he was, previously, quite a lady’s man. Before he was lost, however, he was well on his way back to the recovery of schmaltz.
Georgie Mains – Georgie, a Scotsman, thought that he wasn’t married when he actually was. When he was getting married to Betty, each pilot of the Squadron in his Spitfire beat the church up, one right after the other, at steeple height over and over again so loudly that Georgie and Betty couldn’t hear the rector or themselves. They said that they weren’t sure that they were churched.
Pete Wright – Pete was a quiet one, but before he was lost his guns were intently loud. It was Pete who suggested to me never to perform aerobatics, such as a victory roll or upward Charlie, after coming back in an elated state from a beehive (turning of many aircraft in a dogfight) or at any time that one was jarred by flak (anti-aircraft fire from the ground or a ship) because there might have been damage to the control system, and aerobatics did, indeed, put much stress on the control surfaces.
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