AIRMAN ON LEAVE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 November 1943, Page 5

AIRMAN ON LEAVE

MISJUDGED ON APPEARANCES. “If you judge by appearances you’re liable to make some very silly mistakes. I was riding in a car the other day with a young man who was wearing a rather loud sports coat and a vivid shirt and tie. When we got out of the car one or two people looked dt him as he locked the door as though they were thinking something rather scathing. Obviously they were wondering what a young man in his early twenties was doing driving about in a car, using petrol. And they were probably thinking that it would do him all the good in the world to be in the army, because he has a rather pale face and he doesn’t look at all strong. Well, as far as the petrol was concerned, he was making use of the small allowance granted to air crews going on leave from operations. I’m afraid he’s rather a heavy user of petrol. A little while ago he navigated a Lancaster to North Africa and back, dropping bombs on Friedrichshafen on the way out and on Spezia on the return journey. His was also in one of the Lancasters that blotted out half of the German industrial town of Wuppertal one night; went back two nights later and blotted out the other half.”—E. V. H. Emmett, in a 8.8. C. wave series.