This is really extraordinary. To hear small excerpts of what my researched pilots/air crew may have listened to, unaware of what the future holds. So many of my researched crews were now ticking down their last days. One about to marry, with just over 3 months to live. These tiny moments I can hear what they heard, IF they were listening to the same channel. I am haunted by foreknowledge. Wishing I could give the pilot a broken nose down the decades. Stop that plane leaving. Maybe get the navigator 3 or 4 ° off course. Avoid that German ace, who was killed by the gunners in that doomed Lanc., as he closed in without compassion. All dead. This makes me so sad, yet I search out these little glimpses of my researched boys last days. I picture them, listening, before bed. I hope their sleep is sound and happy, but fear it is simmering stress. I am not one to not want to help - and that I am 80 years late, doesn't ease my mind, as pointless as it is. In my head, I am calculating how much longer all my lost crews have...
Profoundly beautiful in sentiment ❤
Thank for posting. Very interesting.
This is really extraordinary. To hear small excerpts of what my researched pilots/air crew may have listened to, unaware of what the future holds.
So many of my researched crews were now ticking down their last days. One about to marry, with just over 3 months to live.
These tiny moments I can hear what they heard, IF they were listening to the same channel.
I am haunted by foreknowledge. Wishing I could give the pilot a broken nose down the decades. Stop that plane leaving. Maybe get the navigator 3 or 4 ° off course. Avoid that German ace, who was killed by the gunners in that doomed Lanc., as he closed in without compassion. All dead.
This makes me so sad, yet I search out these little glimpses of my researched boys last days. I picture them, listening, before bed.
I hope their sleep is sound and happy, but fear it is simmering stress. I am not one to not want to help - and that I am 80 years late, doesn't ease my mind, as pointless as it is.
In my head, I am calculating how much longer all my lost crews have...