• The MIGs were looking for a reason to shoot us down

    Peter Pilkington

  • We were doing something with a purpose

    Dr. Harold E. Raugh, Jr.

  • We all had to behave ourselves for a while

    Derek Smith

  • The parachuting started to get competitive

    Sgt Georgie Smith

  • They might be terrorists but they are still human

    Sgt Georgie Smith

  • Basic training is like being hit by a train

    Sgt Georgie Smith

  • Those ships won’t sail for England

    Flt Lt Dick Maydwell

  • How long do you think you’re going to have that rank for?

    Amelia Seymour

  • Supreme valour and self-sacrifice

    Flight Lieutenant David Lord

  • … six times that Focke-Wulfe attacked us.

    Jimmy Edwards

  • Banged open the throttles and pulled up and away …

    Jimmy Edwards

  • I was shot at by a guy with a hunting rifle

    Ed Smith